So, Ganryujima 5 happened

[chunglii]

Apparently there was an 8 man, 1 night tournament. Michihiro Omigawa and Katsunori Kikuno were among the participants.





check out Caposa's twitter for more gifs.

 

[mime]

nice, forgot about you kikuno, would like to see him in rizin

 

[Kim Jong Un]

Caposa with those spoilers. What were the full brackets?

 

[chunglii]

Caposa with those spoilers. What were the full brackets?

Katsunori Kikuno (23-8-MMA) vs (Taekwondo) Ha Woon Pyo

Khuukhenkhuu Amartuvshin (Mongolian wrestling) vs (Hand to hand combat) Igor Permin

Michihiro Omigawa (17-14-MMA) vs (Sanda) Zhang Wensheng

Al Bakhtiari (Kungfu) vs (Muay Thai) Kuntap Charoenchai

 

[BeardotheWeirdo]

You have to register and pay but they upload their events here now... eventually. They have the last event up, which only half of surfaced online anywhere before Ganryujima put them up.

https://ganryujima.jp/movies

Hopefully the event that just happened is up soon...

Katsunori Kikuno (23-8-MMA) vs (Taekwondo) Ha Woon Pyo

Khuukhenkhuu Amartuvshin (Mongolian wrestling) vs (Hand to hand combat) Igor Permin

Michihiro Omigawa (17-14-MMA) vs (Sanda) Zhang Wensheng

Al Bakhtiari (Kungfu) vs (Muay Thai) Kuntap Charoenchai

There was also a superfight between Bobby Ologun and Hoshikaze (aka Star Style, aka Armand Baldu (or something like that)) He was the one who kept cheating against Bobby's buddy a couple events ago, the Zulu wrestler guy, I forget his name atm

 

[chamcham]

Classic Street Fighter move

 

[Shoot Boxe Hero]

Katsunori Kikuno (23-8-MMA) vs (Taekwondo) Ha Woon Pyo

Khuukhenkhuu Amartuvshin (Mongolian wrestling) vs (Hand to hand combat) Igor Permin

Michihiro Omigawa (17-14-MMA) vs (Sanda) Zhang Wensheng

Al Bakhtiari (Kungfu) vs (Muay Thai) Kuntap Charoenchai

Ah so Marcus Aurelio wasn't in the tournament? I saw he won by 28 second KO but then wondered why I couldn't find anymore after that one.

Damn shame Kikuno couldn't do well in the UFC, always entertaining guy

 

[chunglii]

Ah so Marcus Aurelio wasn't in the tournament? I saw he won by 28 second KO but then wondered why I couldn't find anymore after that one.

Damn shame Kikuno couldn't do well in the UFC, always entertaining guy

There were 3 non-tournament super fights

 

[TheFakeMacoy]

Damn, Omigawa lost? At least it was in the finals, to a larger opponent. I hope the rest of the fights surface.

 

[JacJeanFinger]

Great event.

How about no gloves?

 

[InfinityLens]

Olugun fought? Rizin needs to take note!

 

[Kinger85]

the world is a better place with more one night tournaments in it.

 

[europe1]

Mommy, why is Kikuno using his devestating body kicks in Japan but not in the UFC?

 

[Asurah]

Mommy, why is Kikuno using his devestating body kicks in Japan but not in the UFC?

The greatest mystery of all

 

[leto1776]

The greatest mystery of all

New avatar. I likes it.

 

[Kim Jong Un]

Olugun fought? Rizin needs to take note!

I think it was another Nigerian boxer. I saw a gif of it and I dont think it was Olugun.

 

[Richard Fannin]

Fuck yeah Kikuno, fuck yeah.

Probably my biggest UFC run disappointment since Crocop...
If you haven't, watch his fight against Andre Dida (Wanderlei's muay thay coach and the guy who punched Chael, but that's not the point), a great striker himself, holding his own against Buakaw.
(and he was trained by Sakuraba too, let's hope Dida gets back on track too)

Anyway, great finish by Kikuno, don't know what happened in the UFC...
I was also very hyped when they signed Yan Cabral after TUF Brasil, but he didn't really deliver...

/rant

 

[D3thr0n3d K1ng]

Anyone have a link to Kikunos fight?

 

[SalvadorAllende]

I think it was another Nigerian boxer. I saw a gif of it and I dont think it was Olugun.

Maybe his younger brother?