Dream.15 Live Blog: Gegard Mousasi vs. Jake O’Brien Updates

Filed under: DREAM, JapanThis is the Dream.15 live blog for Gegard Mousasi vs. Jake O’Brien, a catchweight bout on tonight’s Dream event from the Saitama Super Arena in Saitama, Japan.

Originally scheduled for light heavyweight, O’Brien failed to make…

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Gegard MousasiThis is the Dream.15 live blog for Gegard Mousasi vs. Jake O’Brien, a catchweight bout on tonight’s Dream event from the Saitama Super Arena in Saitama, Japan.

Originally scheduled for light heavyweight, O’Brien failed to make weight and enters this fight with an automatic yellow card and a 10 percent purse deduction. Mousasi is coming off a Strikeforce title loss to King Mo last April.

The live blog is below.



Dream.15 Live Blog: JZ Calvan vs. Katsunori Kikuno Updates

Filed under: DREAM, JapanThis is the Dream.15 live blog for JZ Calvan vs. Katsunori Kikuno, a lightweight bout on tonight’s Dream event from the Saitama Super Arena in Saitama, Japan.

The live blog is below.

More Coverage: Aoki, Mousasi Bounce Back…

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JZ CalvanThis is the Dream.15 live blog for JZ Calvan vs. Katsunori Kikuno, a lightweight bout on tonight’s Dream event from the Saitama Super Arena in Saitama, Japan.

The live blog is below.



Dream 15: Aoki, Mousasi Bounce Back With Big Wins

Filed under: DREAM, Strikeforce, News, JapanTwo of the fighters who lost lopsided decisions on April’s Strikeforce card on CBS bounced back with impressive victories Saturday at Dream 15 in Saitama, Japan.

In the main event, Dream lightweight champion…

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Shinya Aoki, Tatsuya KawajiriTwo of the fighters who lost lopsided decisions on April’s Strikeforce card on CBS bounced back with impressive victories Saturday at Dream 15 in Saitama, Japan.

In the main event, Dream lightweight champion Shinya Aoki submitted Tatsuya Kawajiri to retain his title, looking as good as he ever has three months after looking as bad as he ever had in a loss to Gilbert Melendez.

Aoki, wearing board shorts rather than his trademark spandex grappling pants, immediately took the fight to the ground and went for one of his signature foot lock submissions, twisting and turning Kawajiri’s leg for a full minute on the ground before Kawajiri finally had to tap out. There was nothing more to it than that, as Aoki — Japan’s biggest MMA star — did exactly what he wanted to do.



DREAM 15 Aftermath: Aoki, Mousasi Go Back To Japan, Where the Competition is a Little Easier

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Give the DREAM bosses some credit, these guys sure know how to build suspense into what otherwise might be a fairly straightforward and pleasing night of MMA fights. As it turned out, there was no surprise run-in from …

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Give the DREAM bosses some credit, these guys sure know how to build suspense into what otherwise might be a fairly straightforward and pleasing night of MMA fights. As it turned out, there was no surprise run-in from Alistair Overeem and the Japanese promotion with the fly-by-the-seat-of-its pants matchmaking style never found a fight for Ricco Rodriguez. We hope it paid for the flight and the sushi, at least.  On the bright side, DREAM finally did manage to convince Gegard Mousasi to put in the 31 seconds of work it took to defeat an overweight Jake O’Brien and Shinya Aoki likewise bounced back from an embarrassing loss in Strikeforce a few months ago to put a quick and typically stoic beating on Tatsuya Kawajiri.

Like “Sweet and Sassy,” Aoki called it an early night, withstanding some heel kicks to the face as he locked up an Achilles lock that secured the tap and appeared to damage his Kawajiri’s leg in just one minute, 53 seconds. A couple of days after possibly declaring his bi-sexuality at the event’s weigh-in (we assume he was being ironical), Aoki ditched his trademark colorful tights for relatively conservative board shorts and rushed from the ring following his win to get some lovin’ from his (possibly female) fiancé.

After the jump, O’Brien vs. Mousasi, where it will take you all of the first 15 seconds to see why the American had a little trouble making weight …

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Dream.15 Live Blog: Shinya Aoki vs. Tatsuya Kawajiri Updates

Filed under: DREAMThis is the Dream.15 live blog for Shinya Aoki vs. Tatsuya Kawajiri, a lightweight championship bout on tonight’s Dream event from the Saitama Super Arena in Saitama, Japan.

Aoki will defend his lightweight belt against rival Kawajir…

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This is the Dream.15 live blog for Shinya Aoki vs. Tatsuya Kawajiri, a lightweight championship bout on tonight’s Dream event from the Saitama Super Arena in Saitama, Japan.

Aoki will defend his lightweight belt against rival Kawajiri in the main event.

The live blog is below.



Friday Link Dump

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– UFC signs a fighter with the least original nickname in MMA (MMAJunkie)
– Ref Josh Rosenthal explains why he didn’t stop Lesnar-Carwin in the first (MMAFighting)
– Big Nog says fight with Mir will be different…

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– UFC signs a fighter with the least original nickname in MMA (MMAJunkie)

– Ref Josh Rosenthal explains why he didn’t stop Lesnar-Carwin in the first (MMAFighting)

– Big Nog says fight with Mir will be different this time around (TATAME)

– The best damn Jose Aldo highlight video on YouTube (YouTube)

– Vancouver fires AC head for badmouthing city over sanctioning issues (VancouverSun)

– DREAM 15 weigh-ins (YouTube)

– The Twitter feed every man must follow (Twitter)

– Guy pranks girlfriend with pube moustache (BREAK)

– Create manly invite for your boys to watch UFC 117 at your pad (Manvite)

– Missed connections: It works (HolyTaco)

– Renzo Gracie black belt gives tips on how to bar fight (MadeMan)

– 9 greatest stripper pole fails (Maxim)

– 8-bit Contra-style The Expendables game (ScreenJunkies)

– Hottest girls of Formula 1 (Chickipedia)

– NASCAR summer blockbusters (AllLeftTurns)

– Mel Gibson’s racist hate speech to girlfriend (Ebaumsworld)

– Reaction to "The Decision" (ScoresReport)