Shinya Aoki will defend his WAMMA light heavyweight title against Joachim Hansen in the main event of DREAM 10 at the Saytama Super Arena near Tokyo on July 20th. This was the date of a rumored Affliction/DREAM co-promotion event, but we haven’t heard anything about that since. More info as we get it. [...]
Even though it was technically ruled a TKO, Toby Imada’s upside down inverted triangle choke that rendered Jorge Masvidal unconcious has to be considered an early favorite for MMA ’submission of the year’. It’s Shinya Aoki-esque in its insanity. Here’s the fight highlights along with the submission:
Potentially big news if the information is accurate–our Eastern Europe correspondent Edo Balic gives us the following information from a major Croatian newspaper (Jutarnji list). Reporting on Mirko Cro Cop’s near term plans they indicate that he’s planning to fight Overeem in Japan at a DREAM/AFFLICTION co promoted event:
“Cro Cop: I’ll revenge Overeem in [...]
Just posted–our recap of DREAM 8:
DREAM 8: Sakurai mauls Aoki @ THE SAVAGE SCIENCE
For a full round by round narrative of the event, check out the link below:
DREAM 8 LIVE ROUND BY ROUND
In a nice treat for MMA fans DREAM has added a compelling heavyweight battle to their DREAM 8 fight card. SAVSCI favorite Jeff Monson will be back in the ring against a very tough opponent in Russian Sergei Kharitonov. Monson recently defeated Roy ‘Big Country’ Nelson in a highly disputed decision at the [...]
DREAM has added several non-tournament fights to their DREAM 7 MMA event scheduled to take place at the Saitama Super Arena in Tokyo on March 8th. In addition to the featherweight GP first round and the previously announced Shinya Aoki/David Gardner fight there will be a lightweight battle between Tatsuya Kawajiri and Ross Ebanez [...]
Two fights announced for the DREAM 7 MMA event along with the pairings for the first round of the featherweight GP.
Shinya Aoki vs. David Gardner
Mitsuhiro Ishida vs. Daisuke Nakamura
Featherweight GP Fights:
Masakazu Imanari vs. Atsushi Yamamoto
Hiroyuki Takaya vs. Kim Jong Won
Chase Beebe vs. Joe Warren
Takafumi Otsuka vs. Bibiano Fernandes
Akiyo “Wicky” Nishiura vs. Abel Cullum
Micah Miller vs. [...]
Shinya Aoki will move up to welterweight to participate in the DREAM welterweight GP MMA event beginning in April. He’ll join Hayato ‘Mach’ Sakurai as the first two confirmed names for the event. More participants to come.
UPDATE: Nightmare of Battle is also listing Akuhisa ‘Minowaman’ Minowa as participating in a non-GP fight [...]
This is awesome–following his win over Eddie Alverez at Fields Dynamite, an amped up Shinya Aoki “cut a promo” on UFC President Dana White. Someone posted this on YouTube with translation subtitles:
A couple of MMA matches added to the DREAM/K-1 New Years’ Eve show Fields Dynamite!. Jerome Lebanner will take on Mark Hunt in a MMA rules match. It appeared that Lebanner injured his surgically reconstructed arm at the K-1 World GP Finals but apparently it wasn’t bad enough to keep him out of [...]
