Originally Posted by MMAWeekly.com

In a night filled with odd decisions and some surprising upsets, the main event of Sengoku 9 on Sunday was, at the least, decisive. Mizuto Hirota, after battling Satoru Kitaoka back-and-forth for three rounds, finally earned the Sengoku lightweight championship by stopping the now former champ with a succession of punishing knees to the head as he attempted to shoot in for takedowns.

The promotion’s Featherweight Grand Prix also played out, with both the semi-final and final rounds concluding on Sunday.

In the first bout of the semi-final round, Hatsu Hioki thoroughly dominated Masanori Kanehara over the first two rounds of their fight, doling out a ton of punishment before undergoing a much closer third round. In the end, Hioki swept a unanimous decision for the victory.

In the opposing semi-final bout, after three rounds of action in which most saw Marlon Sandro as dominating Michihiro Omigawa, the scores came up with one judge in Sandro’s favor, while the other two had it tallied as a draw. Under Sengoku’s system, when the fight is scored a draw, that official must then choose a winner, despite the scoring. In a somewhat surprising turn, the two judges that scored the bout a draw ruled in favor of Omigawa and he moved on to the final.

Unfortunately, upon the event doctors doing a thorough examination of Hioki, they were concerned that he may have suffered a concussion and thus sent him to the hospital, ending his run in the Grand Prix.

Kanehara returned for the final round of tournament and wound up taking a majority decision to be crowned the Sengoku Featherweight Grand Prix champion. The initial score had it two judges for Kanehara, and one a draw, with the judge scoring a draw selecting Omigawa as the winner, still leaving Kanehara as the overall victor in a two to one split.

In other notable action, Kazuhiro Misaki def. Kazuhiro Nakamura by guillotine choke in the first round, Blagoy Ivanov won a split decision over Kazuyuki Fujita, and Dan Hornbuckle knocked out Akihiro Gono in the final round of their bout, sending the Japanese fighter to the hospital as a precautionary measure.

Sengoku 9 Results:

Main Bouts:
-Mizuto Hirota def. Satoru Kitaoka by TKO (Knees) at 2:50, R4
-Masanori Kanehara def. Michihiro Omigawa by Majority Decision
-Kazuo Misaki def. Kazuhiro Nakamura by Submission (Guillotine Choke) at 3:03, R1
-Blagoy Alexandre Ivanov def. Kazuyuki Fujita by Split Decision
-Dan Hornbuckle def. Akihiro Gono by KO at 2:50, R3
-Eiji Mitsuoka def. Clay French by Submission (Guillotine Choke) at 1:51, R1
-Chan Sung Jung def. Matt Jaggers by Submission (Triangle Choke) at 1:25, R2
-Michihiro Omigawa def. Marlon Sandro by Split Decision
-Hatsu Hioki def. Masanori Kanehara by Unanimous Decision
-Yoshihiro Nakao def. Chu Mu Bae by Unanimous Decision

Preliminary Bouts:
-Ikuo Usuda def. Koji Ando by Unanimous Decision
-Shigeki Osawa def. Harai by TKO at 4:25, R1
-Ryosuke Komori def. Takeshi Numajiri by KO at 3:25, R1

Originally Posted by Nicky Talent ©
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I saw Hornbuckle's KO. That was fucking brutal.

Originally Posted by King TE
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'and w00t Team THC takes the lead back in CFL.

Originally Posted by Butterfly Jessie
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umm, pwnt?

Chute Box baby

But yes, epic KO. I hope the guy turned out to be okay.