With this year’s DREAM events receiving lackluster ratings, there were questions about whether or not FEG would hold a NYE DREAM event this year. While it doesn’t look like DREAM.7 will take place come Dec. 31, that doesn’t mean there won’t be an event. FEG held a press conference earlier today in Japan to announce this year’s K-1 DYNAMITE!! 2008 show. The event will feature DREAM fighters in MMA bouts as well as the traditional K-1 kickboxing matches.
No Comments | Filed under: Gesias 'JZ' Calvancante, Joachim Hansen, K-1 DYNAMITE!! 2008, UFC, Yoshihiro Akiyama
MMA Weekly interviews lightweight fighter JZ Calvancante. JZ talks about the status of his injury, his desire to return to the ring on New Year’s Eve, and wants a shot at Joachim Hansen and the DREAM lightweight title.
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.
No Comments | Filed under: Alistair Overeem, Caol Uno, DREAM.5, Eddie Alvarez, Joachim Hansen, Mark Hunt, Shinya Aoki, Tatsuya Kawajiri
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.
No Comments | Filed under: Caol Uno, DREAM.3, Eddie Alvarez, Jason 'Mayhem' Miller, Joachim Hansen, Mitsuhiro Ishida, Nick Diaz, Tatsuya Kawajiri
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