Issue 150

January 2017

In another offbeat approach to fighting, some Japanese athletes who’ve washed out of the UFC are made an exciting living in Ganryujima in 2017, an MMA-sumo hybrid where athletes can win by flinging their opponents into a smoke-filled ‘moat’.

The most recent winner, Katsunori Kikuno, showed he didn’t need that as his crescent kicks to the liver are still equalizers in any arena and can earn him a TKO.

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