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Another non-tournament bout has been added to next month’s tourney-heavy Sengoku Raiden Championship 15 event.

World Victory Road officials today announced Olympic medalist Hiroshi Izumi meets fellow light heavyweight James Zikic at the event.

Sengoku Raiden Championship 15 takes place Oct. 30 at Ryogoku Kokugikan in Tokyo and airs via HDNet in North America.

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World Victory Road’s Sengoku event series returns Oct. 30 with Sengoku Raiden Championship 15.

The event features the semifinal round of Japanese-based organization’s welterweight grand prix and the quarterfinal round of the 20-man Asian bantamweight tournament.

The event, which is expected to air on HDNet, takes place at Ryogoku Kokugikan in Tokyo.

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Although fifth-round stoppage victories are rare, World Victory Road middleweight champion Jorge Santiago has now scored two. In come-from-behind fashion. Against a single opponent. In fewer than two years.

Santiago latest odds-defying performance came against familiar foe Kazuo Misaki in the main event of Sunday’s Sengoku Raiden Championship 14 event, which took place at the Ryogoku Kokugikan in Tokyo, Japan, and aired live in North American on HDNet.

In addition to the championship headliner, a handful of fighters advanced in the Japanese promotion’s multi-event bantamweight and welterweight grand prixs. Santiago, though, stole the show.

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All fighters competing in Sunday’s latest World Victory Road event,
Sengoku Raiden Championship 14, today made weight for the show.

The weigh-ins took place today in Tokyo, Japan. The city’s Ryogoku
Kokugikan hosts tomorrow’s show, which airs live in North America on
HDNet on Sunday morning at 2 a.m. ET.

Among those weighing in were the show’s headliners: Sengoku middleweight
champion Jorge Santiago and top challenger Kazuo Misaki. The two meet
in a rematch of their epic January 2009 encounter, which Santiago won
with a come-from-behind fifth-round technical submission.

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Mixed-martial-arts fans will get a double dose of nationally televised MMA action this coming weekend.

You just be ready for a late night.

This Saturday, Aug. 21, Showtime airs “Strikeforce: Houston” with a pair of title fights. And early Sunday morning at 2 a.m. ET (11 p.m. PT Saturday), HDNet presents a live broadcast of Sengoku Raiden Championship 14 and a headliner between middleweight champ Jorge Santiago and challenger Kazuo Misaki.

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Mixed-martial-arts fans will get a double dose of nationally televised MMA action this weekend.

You just be ready for a late night.

On Saturday Showtime airs “Strikeforce: Houston” with a pair of title fights. And early Sunday morning at 2 a.m. ET (11 p.m. PT Saturday), HDNet presents a live broadcast of Sengoku Raiden Championship 14 and a headliner between middleweight champ Jorge Santiago and challenger Kazuo Misaki.

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Grappling experts Leonardo Santos and Sotaro Yamada will clash at Sengoku Raiden Championship 14.

The promotion today announced the new matchup, bringing the fight card to a total of 11 bouts.

Featuring a middleweight title fight rematch between current champion
Jorge Santiago and top challenger Kazuo Misaki, Sengoku Raiden
Championship 14 takes place Aug. 22 at Ryogoku Kokugikan in Tokyo.

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British featherweight and “The Ultimate Fighter 9″ cast member Jeff Lawson and Shooto and World Victory Road vet Hatsu Hioki officially meet at next month’s Sengoku Raiden Championship 14 event.

The show takes place Aug. 22 at the Ryogoku Kokugikan in Tokyo, Japan.

Sengoku Raiden Championship 14 also includes a host of welterweight and bantamweight grand-prix bouts.

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Seven fights – including a host of welterweight and bantamweight grand-prix bouts – are now signed for World Victory Road’s Sengoku Raiden Championships 14 event.

As MMAjunkie.com first reported in mid-June, the show features a middleweight title fight between champ Jorge Santiago and challenger Kazuo Misaki.

The event takes place Aug. 22 at the Ryogoku Kokugikan in Tokyo, Japan.

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As a reminder, World Victory Road’s recently concluded event, Sengoku Raiden Championship 13, makes its North American broadcast debut tonight on HDNet.

The three-hour broadcast airs at 10 p.m. ET.

It follows a special 8 p.m. ET airing of “Inside MMA” live from the “Strikeforce and M-1 Global: Fedor vs. Werdum” fighter weigh-ins and an hour of Emelianenko-related programming.

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