Featherweight Grand Prix Second Round

• Hatsu Hioki def. Ronnie Mann via submission (triangle choke) – Round 1, 3:09
• Michihiro Omigawa def. Nam Phan via TKO (strikes) — Round 1, 4:52
• Masanori Kanehara def. Chan Sung Jung via unanimous decision (30-29, 30-29, 29-28)
• Marlon Sandro def. Nick Denis via knockout (strikes) — Round 1, 0:19

Non-tournament Bouts

• Kazunori Yokota def. Leonardo Santos via split decision (30-28, 30-29, 29-28)
• Alexandre “Xande” Ribeiro def. Keiichiro Yamamiya via KO (punches) — Round 3, 2:20
• Makoto Takimoto def. Michael Costa via submission (heel hook) — Round 1, 3:31
• Stanislav Nedkov def. Travis Wiuff via TKO (strikes) — Round 3, 0:42
• Akihiko Mori def. Maximo Blanco via DQ (illegal kick) — Round 1, 4:20
• Shigeki Osawa def. Kota Ishibashi via unanimous decision (20-18, 20-19, 20-19)
• Hirotoshi Saite def. Yoshitaka Abe via submission (arm bar) – Round 1, 2:52

Gina Carano

• Eddie Alvarez, Jorge Masvidal, and Dave Herman will be the featured fighters for Bellator’s fifth event on May 1st in Dayton, Ohio. Complete Bellator lineups are available in the MMAFrenzy.com MMA rumors section.
• Former WEC middleweight champion Paulo Filho will be moving up to light heavyweight to compete at DREAM 9 on May 26th in Japan against an opponent to be named. [Tatame]
• Conor Huen, who last week appeared on MTV’s Bully Beatdown, is likely to fight at Strikeforce’s June 6th event in St. Louis. [MMA Junkie]
• Seven-time Brazilian jiu-jitsu world champion and DREAM welterweight grand prix participant Andre Galvao will soon make his Strikeforce debut. [MMA Junkie]
• Kim Couture and Miesha Tate will square off in a 135-pound women’s bout at ShoMMA: Strikeforce Challengers 1 on May 15th in Fresno, California.
• Daiki Hata has been forced out of the DREAM featherweight quarterfinals due to an eye injury and will be replaced by Hideo Tokoro, who he defeated in the grand prix’s opening round. DREAM also announced this week the matchups for the quarterfinals, which feature Norifumi “Kid” Yamamoto vs. Joe Warren, Bibiano Fernandes vs. Masakazu Imanari, Yoshiro Maeda vs. Hiroyuki Takaya, and Abel Cullum vs. Hideo Tokoro.
• Tim Sylvia’ and Ray Mercer’s scheduled boxing headliner for Adrenaline MMA’s third event in Alabama will take place in an MMA cage. [MMA Junkie]
• Charles “Mask” Lewis, the co-founder of TapouT who recent died in a car accident, was free of drugs and alcohol at the time of the wreck. [OC Register]
• Strikeforce: Shamrock vs. Diaz drew an official attendace of 15,211 to the HP Pavilion in San Jose on Saturday for a live gate pegged unofficially at $750,000.
• Benji Radach suffered a “shattered” right hand in his Saturday Strikeforce loss to Scott Smith and underwent surgery immediately following the fight to repair the damage. [MMA Junkie]
• The highly-anticipated women’s fight between Gina Carano and Cristiane “Cyborg” Santos is likely to take place in August in Strikeforce with the winner being crowned the promotion’s first-ever  female champion.
• As expected, Kevin Randleman has officially signed with Strikeforce and will soon make his debut of the promotion.
• A light heavyweight bout pitting Travis Wiuff against Stanislav Nedkov has been added to Sengoku Eighth Battle on May 2nd in Japan.
• The WEC is considering holding a future event in Ohio. [Dayton Daily News]

Sengoku 5 takes place at the Yoyogi National Gymnasium in Tokyo, Japan on September 28th and includes the opening round of the promotion’s 2008 middleweight grand prix as well as former IFL lightweight champion Ryan Schultz taking on Jorge Masvidal.

The now-complete fight card features:

• Roger Gracie vs. Travis Wiuff
• Xande Ribeiro vs. Takashi Sugiura
• Kiuma Kunioku vs. A Sol Kwon
• Jorge Masvidal vs. Ryan Schultz
• Paul Cahoon vs. Kazuhiro Nakamura
  Middleweight GP Series 2008 1st Round
• Logan Clark vs. Jorge Santiago
  Middleweight GP Series 2008 1st Round
• Yuki Kondo vs. Yuki Sasaki
  Middleweight GP Series 2008 1st Round
• Siyar Bahadurzada vs. Evangelista “Cyborg” Santos
  Middleweight GP Series 2008 1st Round

• Oleg Taktarov (221.2) vs. Mark Kerr (266.2)
• Patrick Smith (240) vs. Eric ” Butterbean” Esch (416.2)

HEAVYWEIGHT TOURNAMENT

• Ricco Rodriguez (264.6) vs. George Bush (231.6)
• Travis Wiuff (242.8) vs. Marcelo Pereira (219.4)
• Chris Tuscherer (264) vs. Tony Sylvester (262.8)
• Sherman Pendergarst (264.6) vs. Alexey Oleinik (220.2)

ALTERNATE TOURNAMENT BOUTS

• Antwain Britt (228.2) vs. Bryan Vetell (266)
• Lamont Lister (212.6) vs. Oleg Savitsky (199.4)

ALTERNATE

• Ron Waterman (264.4)

MMAFrenzy.com will be cage-side for the inaugural YAMMA Pit Fighting event in Atlantic City, New Jersey so stay tuned for additional coverage of the event.