• Eiji Mitsuoka def. Anthony Macias – Decision (3-0)
• Kim Jong Wang def. Mammoth Sasaki – Choke 0:25 R1
• Daijyu Takase def. Johil De Oliveira – Decision (3-0)
• Giant Ochiai def. Souichi Nishida – KO (punch) 2:00 R1
• Koh Soukun def. Amir – KO (punch) 1:19 R2
• Yusuke Imamura def. Joe Son – Arm lock 0:30 R1

FCF:   What do you think of Sakurai?
MH:     You got to respect him as a fighter. Very good standing and very good on the ground with decent takedowns so he’s really the very first all around fighter that I’ve fought. Carlos (Newton) has a weak stand-up game and everybody’s always been weak somewhere. Well, Sakurai’s not. It’ll be interesting.

FCF:   How many of Sakurai’s fights have you reviewed?
MH:     I’ve seen a lot of them. I’ve seen 2 or 3 of them live. With Trigg I saw that live. I have not seen the Anderson Silva fight yet so I’m interested in seeing that tape and I’ll look at the Trigg fight. Those are probably the only two I’ll look at real hard.

FCF:   Are you doing anything different to prepare for this one?
MH:     No. I’m not doing anything different right now, just getting my body ready. Working a lot of stand-up and a lot of grappling. When it gets within a couple of weeks we’ll start working a lot especially for Sakurai. Not to that point yet.

FCF:   Has your life changed since becoming the champion?
MH:     I train a lot harder. As far as having the belt, no.

FCF:   You don’t think you’re more recognizable? Do strangers stop you and say ‘hi’?
MH:     I’ve been a twin my whole life so I’ve always had a lot of publicity and stuff like that through wrestling. I really don’t think about that much.

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