Check out video of Takanori Gomi’s win from Vale Tudo Japan 2009 after the jump…

Carolina Fight Promotions put on a great event at the Carolina Crown 2 in Raleigh, North Carolina Saturday night. The card featured seven amateur bouts and seven professional bouts, including two championship fights, and was headlined by former The Ultimate Fighter contestant Vinny Magalhaes defeating Kris Davis, who was a late replacement for Jason Guida, who pulled out of the fight due to a reported back injury.

Fighters weighed in today for Carolina Fight Promotion’s Carolina Crown 2, to be held tomorrow at the RBC Center in Raleigh, NC. All fighters on the pro card made weight, including headliners Vinny Magalhaes and late replacement Chris Davis.

This coming Saturday, October 24, MMAFrenzy.com will be on site to cover The Carolina Crown 2, an event put on at the RBC Center in Raleigh, NC by the North Carolina based company Carolina Fight Promotions. We will also be on site for the weigh-ins Friday at Locked & Loaded Grill in Garner, NC.

Kevin Randleman will face Stanislav Nedkov and Jorge Masvidal will fight Satoru Kitaoka at Sengoku 11.

Hong Man Choi has accepted Shaquille O’Neal’s challenge to fight in an MMA bout.

These stories and a few more in MMAFrenzy’s Rising Sun Round Up.

The previously reported bout between Alistair Overeem and Sam Hoger, slated for an upcoming Shooto event, has been scrapped. Overeem will instead face Tony Sylvster at the Oct. 17 Golden Glory event in Amsterdam.

Takanori Gomi, a top lightweight fighter that has had a tough go of things recently, announced Tuesday that his upcoming bout at Vale Tudo Japan ‘09 would be his final fight in Japan. “The Fireball Kid” made the announcement during a press conference to promote the October 30th event, and his official involvement in it.

Gomi also made the strange announcement that in addition to attempting to move his MMA career to the US he would also be pursuing a second professional career as a surfer.

The MFC 22 headlining bout will be match up between two top grapplers, as Jason MacDonald will look to topple Travis Lutter. Also on the card, Antonio McKee will take on Carlo Prater for the MFC lightweight belt, and Luigi Fioravanti will face John Alessio.

Headlining Arena Rumble is a match up between Jason Guida and Jeremy Horn. Other notables in action on the card include Trevor Prangley, Brad Imes, Terry Martin, and Lyle Beerbohm.

Heavyweight UFC veteran Gan McGee (12-4) will return to competition for the first time in over four years to take on Jonathan Ivey (27-33) at Xtreme Fighting Championships “Salute to Our Armed Forces V” on September 13th in Tampa, Florida.
After winning five straight bouts between 2001 and 2003 McGee challenged Tim Sylvia for the UFC [...]

Kimbo Slice and Gina Carano will return to network television at EliteXC Saturday Night Fights 3 on October 4th at the Bank Atlantic Center in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. The event will be broadcast on CBS. Carano will likely meet Cristiane “Cyborg” Santos at the event, while Kimbo may take on Brett Rogers, though several other [...]

The UFC has officially announced UFC Fight Night 15, which will take place on September 17th at the Omaha Civic Auditorium in Omaha, Nebraska. The UFC Fight Club presale begins on Wednesday, July 16th. Tickets start at just $35.
The UFC has reached an agreement with Japanese broadcaster WOWOW to broadcast UFC events on the premium [...]

Fedor Emelianenko’s manager, Vadim Finkelstein, has announced that the top-ranked heavyweight plans on fighting two more times in 2008. The first bout will be at an October Affliction-promoted event and the second will come in December at a New Year’s Eve event in Japan.
UFC veteran Joe Jordan will take on Ryan Ford in the main [...]

Welcome to MMAFrenzy.com’s LIVE coverage of UFC 86 “Jackson vs. Griffin”. After appearing as opposing coaches on The Ultimate Fighter 7, UFC Light Heavyweight Champion Quinton “Rampage” Jackson takes on challenger and The Ultimate Fighter 1 winner Forrest Griffin for the 205-pound title in the UFC 86 main event.
Patrick Cote vs. Ricardo Almeida, Joe Stevenson [...]

British welterweight Paul “Semtex” Daley (17-6-2), who abruptly retired in March for personal reasons, will come out of the brief retirement to headline Cage Warriors Fighting Championships “Enter the Rough House 7″ July 12th in Nottingham, England according to Sherdog.
His opponent for the main event bout is Bojan Kosednar (6-0).
Here’s a quote from Daley from [...]

UFC veteran Shonie Carter was victorious on Friday in the main event of Prime Time Fighting Championship’s “Inception” event in Merrillville, Indiana. Carter defeated Demi Deeds via techinical knockout at four-minutes twenty-one seconds of the first round. The win was Carter’s third-straight and eighth in his last ten fights.
“Mr. International” last fought in the UFC [...]