Kanehara To America! High Altitude In Albuquerque
SRC Featherweight champion Masanori Kanehara is heading to train in the U.S. for 1 month tomorrow. He thanked the SRC staff for announcing the fight over 2 months before it’s happening and Sandro for taking the fight.
Kanehara has had fighters he’d like to face since taking the belt last year but since they’re in other organizations it couldn’t happen. However, when Sandro destroyed his senior in March a fire was ignited. He thinks that Sandro is an appropriate challenger and that he will most likely lose if he goes into the fight as usual. That’s why he’s heading to America to train.
He isn’t going into the fight to avenge Kanomata’s loss, it’s just a feeling he got of wanting to try and fight someone like Sandro after seeing his fight in March. He doesn’t feel like this is a fight between champion and challenger but a fight between two fighters trying to capture the belt.
He’s heading to Albuquerque to train at Greg Jacksons place (with WEC veterans Cub Swanson and Leonard Garcia) where the high altitude training will aid him in a 5 round fight.
Athens silver medalist Hiroshi Izumi wants to be the face of the heavier weight divisions of SRC. Nearing the first year anniversary of converting to MMA Izumi says that it hasn’t been easy going from Judo to MMA. The victory he took on NYE was something big for himself though. Any type of opponent in his next fight is OK for him, foreign or Japanese.
The SRC representative at the press conference said that they want a step-up in competition for Maxi in his upcoming fight. Maxi is not shying away from a fight for the vacant SRC Lightweight title in the not so distant future.
SRC Featherweight champion Masanori Kanehara is heading to train in the U.S. for 1 month tomorrow. He thanked the SRC staff for announcing the fight over 2 months before it’s happening and Sandro for taking the fight.
Kanehara has had fighters he’d like to face since taking the belt last year but since they’re in other organizations it couldn’t happen. However, when Sandro destroyed his senior in March a fire was ignited. He thinks that Sandro is an appropriate challenger and that he will most likely lose if he goes into the fight as usual. That’s why he’s heading to America to train.
He isn’t going into the fight to avenge Kanomata’s loss, it’s just a feeling he got of wanting to try and fight someone like Sandro after seeing his fight in March. He doesn’t feel like this is a fight between champion and challenger but a fight between two fighters trying to capture the belt.
He’s heading to Albuquerque to train at Greg Jacksons place (with WEC veterans Cub Swanson and Leonard Garcia) where the high altitude training will aid him in a 5 round fight.
Athens silver medalist Hiroshi Izumi wants to be the face of the heavier weight divisions of SRC. Nearing the first year anniversary of converting to MMA Izumi says that it hasn’t been easy going from Judo to MMA. The victory he took on NYE was something big for himself though. Any type of opponent in his next fight is OK for him, foreign or Japanese.
The SRC representative at the press conference said that they want a step-up in competition for Maxi in his upcoming fight. Maxi is not shying away from a fight for the vacant SRC Lightweight title in the not so distant future.