Submission aficionado Satoru Kitaoka will return to action against scrappy ATT lightweight Jorge "Gamebred" Masvidal for Sengoku 11 on November 7th.  Kitaoka gained serious notoriety after stepping up from Pancrase and signing with Sengoku, where he reeled off five straight wins, four of which were first round submissions, to become their lightweight champion.  Prominent names on his list of victims in Sengoku are former lightweight king Takanori Gomi, Eiji Mitsuoka, and Clay French.  Kitaoka finally fell prey to Shooto standout Mizuto Hirota at Sengoku Ninth Battle, losing the belt and snapping his 6-fight streak. Jorge Masvidal returns to the Sengoku ring after a stint in Bellator's lightweight tournament, where it seemed he was destined for a clash in the finals with fellow lightweight standout Eddie Alvarez, but instead Masvidal found himself on the wrong end of one of the most amazing submissions of 2009 when Toby Imada locked on an acrobatic inverted triangle to knock Masvidal out of the brackets and steal his spot in the finals versus Alvarez.  Tapology was the first to break the story on this match-up. Also on Sengoku 11, Kevin Randleman will return from a disappointing and lackluster loss to Mike Whitehead in Strikeforce versus undefeated Stanislav Nedkov according to MMAJunkie.  MMA veteran Randleman has slipped from the spotlight since Pride was sold, competing only twice since his loss to Shogun Rua in 2006.  Nedkov is 7-0 and just TKO'd Travis Wiuff at Sengoku 8.

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