The official weigh-ins for the DREAM.18 & Glory 4 New Year’s Eve event went down at a hotel in Tokyo, Japan, featuring 20 bouts of mixed martial arts and kickboxing matches.
The December 31, 2012 event is scheduled to take place at the Saitama Super Arena in Saitama, Japan highlighted by mma bouts between Shinya Aoki vs. Antonio McKee and Bibano Fernandes vs. Yoshiro Maeda, as well as a sixteen fighter one night heavyweight Grand Prix kickboxing tournament.
A total of $600,000 is up for grabs in the Heavyweight Grand Slam tournament with a Grand Prize of $400,000.
The event marks the latest New Year’s Eve event in Japan and the first show by DREAM since NYE of 2011.
The event is set to begin here in North America at 2am EST (11pm PST) on New Year’s Eve with different viewing options depending on your location. Canadians can catch the whole event live on the Fight Network, while fans in the United States will have to pay $20 to catch the event live via pay-per-view at GloryWorldSeries.com. The show will also air via tape delay in the U.S. on CBS in two separate parts.
All weights taken from the official DREAM website and converted from kilograms to pounds.
DREAM.18 Card
Featherweight bout: Tatsuya Kawajiri (142.9/64.8kg) vs. Michihiro Omigawa (143.3/65kg)
Featherweight bout: Hiroyuki Takaya (143.3/65kg) vs. Georgi Karakhanyan (143.3/65kg)
Lightweight bout: Shinya Aoki (154.3/70kg) vs. Antonio McKee (153.2/69.5kg)
Bantamweight bout: Bibiano Fernandes (136.9/62.1kg) vs. Yoshiro Maeda (138.5/62.8kg)
Middleweight bout: Melvin Manhoef (184.3/83.6kg) vs. Denis Kang (185.1/84kg)*
Welterweight bout: Hayato Sakurai (168.7/76.5kg) vs. Phil Baroni (167.8/76.1kg)
Women’s featherweight bout: Marloes Coenen (145.5/66kg) vs. Fiona Muxlow (144.8/65.7kg)
Lightweight bout: Satoru Kitaoka (154.3/70kg) vs. Will Brooks (154.3/70kg)*
* Both Kang (84.6) and Brooks (71.2) made second attempts at making weight
GLORY 4 card
Heavyweight Tournament
Semmy Schilt (287/130.2kg) vs. Brice Guidon (225/102kg)
Sergei Kharitonov (264.5/120kg) vs. Rico Verhoeven (255/115.8kg)
Gokhan Saki (228/103.4kg) vs. Raoumaru (230/104.2kg)
Anderson Silva (243/110.2kg) vs. Igor Jurkovic (220/99.8kg)
Remy Bonjasky (243/110.2kg) vs. Filip Verlinden (205/93.1kg)
Errol Zimmerman (253/114.8kg)+ vs. Jamal Ben Saddik (284/128.8)
Peter Aerts (231.5/105kg) vs. Mourad Bouzidi (215/97.5kg)
Daniel Ghita (238/108kg) vs. Jhonata Diniz (237.5/107.8)
Superfights
Mitsuki Ebata (116.4/52.9) vs. Sang-Jae Kim (115.74/52.5kg)
70-kg bout: Guacharo ‘Jienotsu’ Nagashima (154/69.9kg) vs. Robin van Roosmalen (154/kg)
85-kg bout: Matsumoto Toshio (187/84.9kg) vs. Jason Wilnis (185/84kg)
Heavyweight bout: Jerome Le Banner (247/112kg) vs. Koichi Pettas (220.5/100kg)