
The former Glory and Wbc muay thai champion Joe Schilling entered this fight with a professional record of 19-8-0 (11 knockouts) and he is ranked as the No.3 cruiserweight in the world. He has already fought twice in 2016 beating Mike Lemaire (=Schilling vs Lemaire) and losing to Jason Wilnis (=Schilling vs Wilnis 2).
His opponent, the black belt in kudo Hisaki Kato, is at his professional kickboxing debut but he has a mma record of 6-2-0 (2 knockouts). He had won over Schilling in their first mma fight last year (4-stars-fight Schilling vs Kato I) but then he lost to Melvin Manhoef (=Kato vs Manhoef); he came back to win in 2016 against Yuta Watanabe. Schilling vs Kato 2 is on the undercard of Quinton Rampage Jackson vs Satoshi Ishii – Bellator 157. Watch the video and rate this fight!