Sherdog’s Top 10: Best MMA Referees There may not be a more thankless job in the world of mixed martial arts than that of a referee.

19-Year-Old Mizuki Inoue Taps Tomimatsu, Takes Title at Deep ‘Jewels 5’ in Tokyo It took two tries and a pair of armbars, but Mizuki Inoue is now a Jewels champion.

Deep ‘66 Impact’ Results: Kitaoka, Yokota, Nakanishi Successful in Title Defenses Japanese promotion Deep pulled out all the stops for “66 Impact” on Tuesday night, stacking the card with title fights in five different...

Kyoji Horiguchi Struggles Against Shintaro Ishiwatari at Vale Tudo Japan 2nd TOKYO -- Once again proving the merit of five round fights, highly coveted Shooto prospect Kyoji Horiguchi was on the losing end of his 135-pound affair with Shintaro Ishiwatari until pulling off a resounding...

Kawajiri Crushes Omigawa, Aoki Pounds Out McKee at Dream 18 NYE Special TOKYO -- Tatsuya Kawajiri turned in a quintessential “Crusher” performance at Dream 18.

Hideo Tokoro Hammers Rumina Sato, Megumi Fujii Wins Possible Final Bout at VTJ 2012 TOKYO -- Hideo Tokoro needed only 39 seconds to pound out Shooto legend Rumina Sato in their bantamweight bout at Vale Tudo Japan 2012 on Monday.

Vale Tudo Japan 2012 Results, Play-by-Play & Updates Sherdog.com will report live from Yoyogi National Gymnasium in Tokyo at 2:30 a.m. ET/11:30 p.m. PT with play-by-play and live results of Vale Tudo...

Shinya Aoki Strangles Arnaud Lepont in One FC 6 Headliner; Boku, Kim Pick Up Title Belts One FC 6’s main event between former Dream and Shooto champion Shinya Aoki and little-known lightweight Arnaud Lepont went exactly as most...

Yoshiro Maeda Retains Bantamweight Title, Imanari Taps Oishi at Deep ‘59 Impact’ TOKYO -- WEC veteran Yoshiro Maeda tapped out Tatsumitsu Wada to retain the Deep bantamweight title in the main event of Deep “59 Impact”.

Former Sengoku Ace Masanori Kanehara Eyes UFC Deal with Easy Win at Deep Tokyo Impact 2012 TOKYO -- Despite a scary encounter with a kick below the belt early on, former Sengoku featherweight champion Masanori Kanehara needed only one round to dispatch of Guam's Tony Reyes in their bantamweight main event at...