Archive for 'Aoki'

DREAM 8 recap: Sakurai mauls Aoki

Monday, April 6th, 2009

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

Jeff Monson vs. Sergei Kharitonov added to DREAM 8

Friday, March 27th, 2009

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 [...]

New fights added to DREAM 7 MMA card

Friday, February 27th, 2009

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 [...]

New DREAM 7 fights announced

Friday, February 20th, 2009

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. [...]

Aoki, Sakurai confirmed for DREAM welterweight GP

Thursday, February 12th, 2009

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 [...]

Shinya Aoki cuts a promo on Dana White

Monday, January 12th, 2009

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:

New Dynamite! matches added

Thursday, December 11th, 2008

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 [...]

Aoki vs. Alverez forthcoming for NYE?

Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008

DREAM is trying to finalize a Shinya Aoki/Eddie Alverez fight for New Years’ Eve–that would be the second of two excellent lightweight bouts along with the previously booked Joachim Hansen/JZC fight.
We have a lengthy preview of the Hansen/JZC bout at the link below:
JZ Calvan vs. Joachim Hansen set for New Years Eve in Tokyo @ [...]

JZ Calvan vs. Joachim Hansen at Fields Dynamite!

Saturday, November 29th, 2008

New article by Lyman Hoyt previewing the great New Years’ Eve matchup between Gesias “JZ Calvan” Calvancante and Joachim “Hellboy” Hansen.
JZ Calvan vs. Joachim Hansen set for New Years Eve in Tokyo @ THE SAVAGE SCIENCE

Shinya Aoki DREAM 6 entrance video

Monday, November 24th, 2008

Because you really *can’t* have too much Shinya Aoki, here’s a fan shot video of his DREAM 6 ring entrance: