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Hoshino, Mizugaki win Cage Force tournament titles

Are Takeya Mizugaki and Yuji Hoshino WEC bound?

Mizugaki and Hoshino won in the finals on Saturday to become the 2008 featherweight and bantamweight tournament champs, respectively, at Cage Force 9 in Japan.

Last year's welterweight tournament winner Yoshiyuki Yoshida and runner-up Dan Hardy have secured contracts with the UFC.

Cage Force is the only promotion in Japan that holds fights inside a cage.

1. Ryota Sasaki def. Ryo Saito via submission (RNC) - R3 (1:21)
2. Masamitsu Sato def. Hirokazu Nishimura via TKO - R2 (1:42)
3. Koji Ando def. Masayoshi Ichikawa via submission (RNC) - R2 (1:17)
4. Shuji Morikawa def. Nobuhiro Tsurumaki via TKO - R2 (0:37)
5. Yoshiaki Takahashi def. Shinpei Sotoyama via majority decision
6. Wataru Takahashi def. Nobutaka Hiyoshi via unanimous decision
7. Kenta Takagi def. Keitaro Maeda via TKO - R1 (1:30)
8. Takeyasu Hirono def. Yoshihiro Matsunaga via unanimous decision
9. Wataru Miki def. Masaaki Hasegawa via submission (armbar) - R3 (1:40)
10. Motoki Miyazawa def. Shigetoshi Iwase via TKO - R3 (1:45)
11. Tomonari Kanomata def. Eriya Matsuda via submission (armbar) - R1 (0:30)
12. Takeya Mizugaki def. Masahiro Oishi via TKO - R2 (0:57)
13. Yuji Hoshino def. Akiyo "Wicky" Nishiura via unanimous decision

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