WVR Announces Welterweight GP

WVR announced an 8 man Welterweight tournament at a press conference on Friday. Two of the first round matches will take place at SRC13 while the second two take place at SRC14. 

On the June 19th SRC13 card, we'll see Keita "K-Taro" Nakamura (18-4-2) facing Omar de la Cruz (6-2). K-Taro found great success early in his career going undefeated through his first 10 fights in the GMC/Cage Force promotion. He's also fought in Shooto, the UFC and DREAM and most recently beat Tomoyoshi Iwamiya by majority decision at Cage Force 11. His opponent, Omar de la Cruz is a fourth degree Black Belt in Taekwondo and holds a brown belt in BJJ. Last year Omar appeared three times in the Bellator promotion getting to the finals of the Welterweight tournament before losing to Lyman Good. His most recent fight took place just last month when he defeated Prince McLean via TKO in C3 Fights. 

The other SRC13 Welterweight GP bout will see Takuya Wada (19-8-10) taking on Jae Sun Lee (5-5). Wada, who fights out of SK Absolute, has not been beaten in his last 9 fights. A submission win over Shiko Yamashita in Shooto was his most recent victory. Korean Jae Sun Lee has only fought twice in the past two years. Last year he appeared at Sengoku 10 losing a decision to Makoto Takimoto. 

The other round 1 GP fights will take place at SRC14 on August 14th and will include the winner of the June 5th Pancrase match between Kengo Ura/Keiichiro Yamamiya. Also participating will be KentaTakagi and Taisuke Okuno.