Mark Hunt is an Oceanian kick boxer and fan favourite who most recently competed in the UFC. Albini went 1-4 across the pond and dropped losses to Andrei Arlovski and Jairzinho Rozenstruik. Junior Albini is a Brazilian boxer and has past experience in the UFC. Growing to 8-0 in his career, he has lost four of his last five fights and comes to TFC on the back of a knockout loss to Greg Hardy.įrank Mir is a former UFC Heavyweight Champion and an American submission wrestler who enters Tokyo Fighting Championship going 1-4 in his last five professional fights. Asker had a stint in the UFC, where he went 2-3 before being released.ĭmitry Smolyakov is a Russian freestyle wrestler. The show will be hosted in Kanto, Japan and will be shown on TBS.Ĭyril Asker is a Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu brown belt and is one of the least experienced fighters in the Heavyweight Open. With half the field in this tournament over the age of 40 I didn't want our potential first champion, to retire between now and the next tournament leaving the belt vacated again. I also decided not to jump in with championship belts right away.
Some of these names are legends who have good name value but are past their primes, with others names who could stick around for a few years and potentially become good assets for us.įirst-round matches were made through randomisation. From the off this is the division that had the most recognisable fighters who were available to hire. Tokyo Fighting Championship's first tournament, will feature the Heavyweight division. Hopefully we'll be able to host some really great legacies and tournaments in Tokyo Fighting Championship's future. I am just looking to put on entertaining tournaments which would not be possible to do in the modern world of MMA. There's no specific goal when it comes to the promotion's success. We'll also introduce championships which will be defended in the tournaments of their champions weight class. With time, we'll build Tokyo Fighting Championship from an empty promotion, to one featuring the best and most popular fighters on the planet. We'll also be looking to steal away any and every available fighter whose contracts with the UFC, Bellator or elsewhere, are running out. Instead of running monthly or bi-weekly events featuring multiple weight classes, we're going to run one-night tournaments for a select amount of weight classes two-to-three times a year. In WMMA5, the mixed martial arts equivalent of TEW, I've made Tokyo Fighting Championship the richest and most popular promotion in the game. Running an MMA promotion in a non-traditional way. The idea of this diary is straightforward.
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