Sengoku 6 Results: Gomi Upset By Golyaev, Santiago and Kitaoka Win Grand Prixs
Takanori Gomi, a consensus top-10 lightweight, was upset at World Victory Road’s Sengoku 6 on Saturday at the Saitama Super Arena in Saitama, Japan, suffering a split decision loss to relative-unknown Sergey Golyaev.
In other featured action, Jorge Santiago TKO’d Kazuhiro Nakamura in the third-round to win the promotion’s middleweight tournament and Satoru Kitaoka topped Kazunori Yokota via unanimous decision to capture the lightweight grand prix title.
Gomi was expected to get past Golyaev with relative ease and square off with the lightweight tournament winner Kitaoka in 2009 for the first-ever Sengoku lightweight title. However, those plans were derailed on Saturday when Golyaev, who trains out of the Red Devil Sport Club alongside the likes of Fedor Emelianenko, Aleksander Emelianenko, and Gegard Mousasi, earned the split decision victory, his fourth-straight win.
Golyaev improves to 11-6 with the winning effort while Gomi falls to 29-4 in the loss.
Notables Muhammed “King Mo” Lawal, Antonio Rogerio Nogueira, and Joe Doerksen also picked up wins at Sengoku 6.
SENGOKU 6 RESULTS
- Jorge Santiago def. Kazuhiro Nakamura via TKO (strikes) — Round 3, 0:49
Middleweight GP Final - Satoru Kitaoka def. Kazunori Yokota via unanimous decision
Lightweight GP Final - Sergey Golyaev def. Takanori Gomi via split decision
- Muhammed Lawal def. Fabio Silva via TKO (strikes) — Round 3, 0:41
- Antonio Rogerio Nogueira def. Moise Rimbon via unanimous decision
- Jorge Masvidal def. Seung Hwan Bang via unanimous decision
Lightweight GP Reserve Bout - Joe Doerksen def. Izuru Takeuchi via TKO (strikes) — Round 3, 4:13
Middleweight GP Reserve Bout - Satoru Kitaoka def. Eiji Mitsuoka via submission (heel hook) — Round 1, 1:16
Lightweight GP Semifinals - Kazunori Yokota def. Mizuto Hirota via unanimous decision
Lightweight GP Semifinals - Kazuhiro Nakamura def. Yuki Sasaki via unanimous decision
Middleweight GP Semifinals - Jorge Santiago def. Siyar Bahadurzada via submission (heel hook) — Round 1, 1:10
Middleweight GP Semifinals
Ok well ny picks didn’t do too well
What is Gomi’s deal, damn man I don’t get it, I know he isn’t known for taking every fight seriously but u would have to think at some while getting punched in the face u would think hmmm I’m in a fight..?
He has only lost to Joachim Hansen (DREAM GP Champ)
BJ Penn (UFC Champ)
Marcus Aurelio (he got this loss back)
Sergey Goyaev (?)
*Nick Diaz was ruled a NC by NSAC*
I just don’t understand Gomi kinda irritates me
Joe Doerksen with the victory, keeping his name out there.
wow
x2
I guess we can stop clamoring for Gomi to be given a shot at Penn now, right?
Gomi would get destroyed by penn..overhyped fighter
^^^^
Again!!
and i like Gomi but their first fight he had nothing and a rematch would be the same if not worse
i was never a really big fan of gomi..alot of the japanese lw are over rated i think and this proves it the majority of top ten lw should be ufc fighters…i would put bj,joe,sherk,florian and clay over most japanese lw oh and maynard…maynard is the king
But hey Gomi is going to fight for the title even after his loss
Imo this is waaayyyy worse than Yves getting another title shot (even tho in another org, cuz Thompson wants a rematch) I can’t explain Gomi still getting his title shot v the GP winner