Nastula, who won gold in the 1996 Olympics while representing his native Poland, is 1-3 lifetime in MMA in spite of his impressive Judo credentials. All four of his fights took place inside the rings of PRIDE, where he sustained losses against Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira, Aleksander Emelianenko, and Josh Barnett.

His lone victory took place s during PRIDE’s “Critical Countdown Absolute” in July of 2006 when he executed a first round submission against Edson Draggo.

Nastula announced his retirement from MMA after the Nevada State Athletic Commission suspended him for testing positive for performance enhancing drugs following his submission loss to Barnett at PRIDE 32 in October of 2006.

He’ll be facing an opponent in Yi that is 14 years his junior. Yi trains out of CMA Korea and is 2-0 with both his wins coming via first round TKO in the DEEP promotion.

Sengoku 4 will be emanating from the Saitama Super Arena in Saitama, Japan and will feature the first round of Sengoku’s 2008 lightweight Grand Prix. First round matchups include IFL lightweight champion Ryan Schultz vs. Mizuto Hirota, Clay French vs. Satoru Kitaoka, Ejii Mitsuoka vs. Rodrigo Damm, and Kazunori Yokota vs. Bojan Kosednar.

Non-tournament bouts will include Takanori Gomi vs. Bang Seung, Makoto Takimoto vs. Frank Trigg, and Peter Graham vs. Moise Rimbon.

Rage In The Cage 105: Friday Night Fights was headed up by the always volatile Melvin Guillardwho was staying true to the promise he made in recent interviews of fighting at a higher weight (170 lbs.) in an effort to avoid jeopardising his place in the UFC. “The Young Assassin” was victorious over his opponent, Eric Regan via unanimous decision.

Guillard was coming off, to put it bluntly, a terrible 2007 in which he accused Joe Stevenson of taking HGH before having to retract the statement after he admitted he had no proof. He was then choked out in 27 seconds by the TUF 2 winner and tested positive to cocaine after the fight. He served an 8 month suspension before making his comeback fight against heated rival, Rich Clementi. In a spiteful affair, Clementi once again exposed Guillard’s weak submission defense when he scored a rear naked choke victory at 4.40 of the first round.

Guillard had this to say post-fight: (from Sherdog.com)

“Eric is tough,” Guillard said. “A lot of guys out here wouldn’t take this fight. I caught him with some good stand-up strikes; he just wouldn’t go down. He has a hard chin.”

“The UFC is still my home,” he continued. “I’m grateful they are letting me participate in outside shows. In my last two fights I got caught thinking too much.”

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AFL: Erupption featured a number of recognisable fighters such as TUF veterans, Rory Singer and Dan Christison, as well as UFC lightweights, Junior Assuncao and Diego Saraiva.

Dan “The Sandman” Christison kicked off proceedings for the UFC veterans as he scored a 2nd round TKO victory over his opponent, John LeBlanc. Singer however was not able to continue the trend as he succumbed to a painful kneebar submission to Chilo Gonzalez.

Junior Assuncao, who was coming off of a submission loss to Nate Diaz scored himself a 3rd round submission victory via guillotine choke over Steve Sharp. In the night’s main event, Diego Saraiva made light work of Joe Ammerman as he scored a rear-naked choke victory early in the first round to capture the AFL lightweight championship.

Also on the card was featherweight stand out, Rafael Assuncao who obtained a quick first round submission victory (arm bar) over opponent, Aaron Williams.

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UFCJunkie.com is also reporting that Nate Diaz’s opponent at Fight Night 11 on September 19 in Junior Assuncao.