Filed under: DREAM, Sengoku, Japan
Event Producer Keiichi Sasahara made an announcement that will have a profoundly positive long term effect on Japanese MMA after DREAM.15. In 2011, both DREAM and Sengoku will have bantamweight and proper featherweight weight classes. Finally Japan’s deepest divisions will be given a chance to shine on the country’s grandest stages.
But let’s take this further. What if DREAM and Sengoku abolished the heavier weight divisions?
The heavyweight and light heavyweight divisions have no depth and longevity in Japan. There is little local talent at those weight divisions and the majority of Japanese fighters who do fight in the heavier weight classes should probably fighting in lighter. So does Japanese MMA need heavyweights?