DREAM is no more as the parent company to the mixed martial arts promotion, Real Entertainment, quietly closed it’s doors this week according to AsianMMA.com.
Operations for DREAM ended earlier this year when FEG (Fighting and Entertainment Group) declared bankruptcy and was then managed by Real Entertainment Co. Ltd in June. Now it appears that they have no interest in keeping the promotion going, putting an end to major mixed martial arts events emanating from Japan for the time being.
While DREAM ended months ago, there was a small amount of talk that something might happen in the future with the promotion. Apparently, the management of the company has had enough. The higher ranking officials have all gone their own ways and it was more or less just remnants of an old company. A decision had to be made, and the shot callers decided that there were no alternatives, but to shut down.
DREAM was founded in February 2008 following the end of PRIDE FC under K-1 and FEG.
The promotion put on twenty-three events with it’s first taking place in March 2008 with a Lightweight Grand Prix which aired in North American on HDNet.
Their last event went down in December of last Year, the “Fight for Japan: Genki Desu Ka Omisoki 2011″ which featured a mix of mma, K-1, and IGF rules bouts.