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World Victory Road Presents: Sengoku 9

World Victory Road MMA event in 2009

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 17, 2026
Entity authorityQ8036399 ↗
Source-derived summary

World Victory Road Presents: Sengoku 9 was a mixed martial arts event promoted by World Victory Road on August 2, 2009. It featured the final round of WVR's 2009 Featherweight Grand-Prix. This event was broadcast in North America via tape delay on HDNet.

Results

2009 Featherweight Grand Prix Bracket

Note: Hioki was unable to continue due to a concussion and was replaced by Kanehara.

Featherweight Grand Prix Reserve Bouts:

Jung Chan Sung def.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “World Victory Road Presents: Sengoku 9” is world Victory Road MMA event in 2009. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through World, Victory and Road, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA strong contextual entry point for chronology, institutions and public events when official records are distinguished from later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2009—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, World, Victory and Road is the immediate research focus.
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The record creator and administrative purpose are central evidence, because official documentation reflects both action and institutional priorities. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 17, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q8036399. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2009.

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This entry incorporates text from “World Victory Road Presents: Sengoku 9” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.