Like every year, I am dropping my Japanese prospects series to highlight fighters who are not yet signed by major promotions.   I wrote this...

 This annual series looking at Japanese MMA prospects is back. With the Covid-19 situation, Rizin could not use foreign fighters and so Ja...

After one year's rest, the list is baaaaaack!! Due to Rizin and One signing up a lot of local talent, however, there is a smaller group...

Since Hisaki Kato knocked out Joe Schilling, my list of Japanese rookies seemed to get quite a bit more attention. I unfortunately could...

It's baaack! This is the 2017 edition of the annual Fighters to Watch For series. Yoshitaka Naito is excluded from this year’s list...

When you watch a fight, do you ever wonder why a strike did or did not land? Sometimes, when a fighter's skill level is too low, he or s...

We're back with the 2016 edition of Fighters to Watch For. The most pleasant thing from last year's list was Hisaki Kato's kno...