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.
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DREAM.6 took place earlier today at the Saitama Super Arena in Saitama, Japan.
It was the finals of the DREAM middleweight grand prix. Four fighters—Gegard Mousasi, Melvin Manhoef, Zelg Galesic, and Ronaldo Jacare—battled it out in the semi-finals with the winners coming back at the end of the show to fight for the grand prix championship.
Mirko Cro Cop was back in action for the second time this year. He didn’t get a softball this time around though. Instead, he looked to end months of trash talking from the always dangerous Alistair Overeem.
Shinya Aoki, Hayato ‘Mach’ Sakurai, Yoshihiro Akiyama, and Sergei Kharitonov were also in action.
If you haven’t seen the fights yet, and want to before spoiling yourself with the results, you can check them out here.
Results and wrap-up after the jump.
By now, you’ve probably heard of the words being exchanged back and forth between Mirko ‘Cro Cop’ and Alistair Overeem. If you haven’t, it’s basically consisted of Overeem calling out Cro Cop and claiming he’s been ducking him, with the Croatian responding that he wants to take on Alistair in DREAM. Then upon hearing that DREAM wasn’t going to book the Cro Cop fight in September, Alistair stepped up the trash talk by calling Cro Cop a “douche-bag.”
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