DREAM.5 Lightweight GP Finals Results & Wrap-Up

July 21st, 2008
Posted by: Steve Barry
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DREAM.5 took place early Monday morning at Osaka Castle Hall in Osaka, Japan. The semi-finals and final round of the lightweight grand prix was featured in the Japanese organization’s fifth outing. Shinya Aoki, Caol Uno, Eddie Alvarez and Tatsuya Kawajiri battled it out to determine who would be the 2008 Lightweight Grand Prix Champion.

Mark Hunt also made his return to mixed martial arts action after a two year layoff against the always dangerous Alistair Overeem.

DREAM.5 results and wrap-up after the jump.

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DREAM.3 Wrap-up

May 12th, 2008
Posted by: Steve Barry
Jason Mayhem Miller at DREAM 3
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DREAM.3 is now in the books. Three quarterfinal matches in DREAM’s Lightweight Grand Prix took place as well as a welterweight title contender bout between Nick Diaz and Katsuya Inoue and a middleweight grand prix round match between Jason ‘Mayhem’ Miller and Katsuyori Shibata. Melvin Mahoef and Kim Dae Won squared off in a middleweight grand prix reserve bout.

I don’t have HDNet so I didn’t get to see the show in its entirety, but I caught quite a few of the fights on the internet. The fights I saw were very entertaining particularly the one many are calling a fight of the year candidate.

Thoughts and results after the jump.

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