[div class=”notice” class2=”icon”]The following is from an article on LiverKick.com, part of the MiddleEasy Network.[/div]
As I alluded to earlier, It’s Showtime and REBELS are set to work together on July 18th in an event promoted by Stand Up Japan! The main event is set to be Giorgio Petrosyan vs. HINATA, which is one of the biggest non-K-1 MAX or Shootboxing fights Japan has seen in quite a while. There was talk of It’s Showtime and the European Fighting Network establishing “It’s Showtime Japan” in Japan, along with REBELS and a few other big names in Japan, but I didn’t want to talk about it until I was sure (my Japanese only goes so far).
Nightmare of Battle did the honors of translating it, and it looks like It’s Showtime Japan is a venture between It’s Showtime’s partners (It’s Showtime and European Fighting Network), Japanese Martial Arts Directors (JMD) and REBELS. Together they have incorporated It’s Showtime Japan, which will run it’s first show next Spring. It will be a public company with Japanese kickboxer Toshio Fujiwara as the representative director.
