Dream/K1 & Sengoku co-promotion for NYE?

LB3000 · Nov 12, 2009

http://www.bloodyelbow.com/2009/11/11/1126948/sengokus-new-years-eve-plans

Been hoping for this to happen for a long time. Great news if true, could be exactly what the Japanese MMA scene needs right now. Hopefully its not a one off either.

boxingcar · Nov 12, 2009

Yes that would be great !

liger05 · Nov 13, 2009

LB3000 said: ↑

http://www.bloodyelbow.com/2009/11/11/1126948/sengokus-new-years-eve-plans

Been hoping for this to happen for a long time. Great news if true, could be exactly what the Japanese MMA scene needs right now. Hopefully its not a one off either.
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This isnt a good thing for the Japanese scene. Sengoku are practically shutting up shop. They originally planned to run there own show but are losing money with every show they run. The industry is on a big downturn in Japan and there are no signs of recovery.

Nice article on www.fightopinion.com

The ghost of Seiya Kawamata: Sengoku waves white flag for NYE, will work with K-1 on NYE

Sengoku was supposed to have a New Years show at Ariake Colosseum in Tokyo with Hidehiko Yoshida vs. Satoshi Ishii. Ariake Colosseum is a nice mid-sized building, around 10,000 seats, but its not even Yokohama Arena in the grand scheme of business. Therefore, Yoshida vs. Ishii in a building of that size should have been a sell-out. So why did the promotion wave the white flag and fold up its tent in order to co-promote an event with K-1 at Saitama Super Arena? Money.
Business has sucked horribly at the Sengoku shows. They cant draw and the attempted roll-out of Ishii by both World Victory Road and by Ishiis management may go down in the history books as the worst handling of a major-league rookie superstar prospect weve seen to date in MMA. Heavy words, yes, but a pretty accurate statement in my opinion.
There are already comparisons being thrown about of Sengoku and K-1 working together as somehow being similar to PRIDE & K-1, which is ironic given what we know about PRIDEs collapse and who was an admitted yakuza fixer during that time one Seiya Kawamata, the man whose interviews with Shukan Gendai led to trouble.
With K-1 & Sengoku now working together on NYE, Sadaharu Tanigawa says were getting a 19-match card with Sakuraba, Tamura, Aoki, and a slew of fighters.
The question now for Sengoku is just how crippled the promotion is and if it will eventually die off. At this point, its a relatively useless shell organization with K-1 having all the power and none of the liabilities that World Victory Road has to pay for. Its like what Pancrase was a few years ago to PRIDE for the Bushido shows.
Whether Kawamata is still involved in the business as a fixer is unknown, but Kazuyoshi Ishii has always conquered his rivals and absorbed them. Would be no surprise at all if Kawamata is still around.
We know Kazuyoshi Ishii loves interpromotional feuds and likes to push rivalries amongst factions. Its his playbook, practically speaking. With Sengoku, he has a powerless ally he can control and essentially tinker with as far as matchmaking goes. Sengoku is losing money promoting their own shows and as long as its not K-1 money, they could care less because ultimately Ishii controls the pipeline for Japanese TV in the fight business over there and you only get on if you work with him.
Weve had various factions feud or co-promote with K-1 over the years (PRIDE, Yarennoka, now Sengoku) and in the end K-1 managed to control the outcome they wanted. The big question is whether or not Kazuyoshi Ishii gives Satoshi Ishii a big push. Its a touchy situation if K-1 cant have its tentacles into Ishii contractually-speaking in the long-run. On the flip side, K-1 has to be pretty confident that even if they do push Ishii on their TV platform that Sengoku will continue to lose money on their shows, so why should they care? Eventually K-1 will grab any of the Sengoku fighters they want.

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