A comprehensive video preview of this Saturday’s DREAM.16 event.
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All twenty fighters made weight for their respective bouts for Saturday’s DREAM.16 event, including headliners Gegard Mousasi (205) and Tatsuya Mizuno (203.9) who square off for the vacant DREAM light-heavyweight title.
DREAM.16 is set to go down at Nippon Gaishi Hall in Nagoya, Japan and will air […]
All twenty fighters made weight for their respective bouts for Saturday’s DREAM.16 event, including headliners Gegard Mousasi (205) and Tatsuya Mizuno (203.9) who square off for the vacant DREAM light-heavyweight title.
DREAM.16 is set to go down at Nippon Gaishi Hall in Nagoya, Japan and will air live in North America on HDNet beginning at 2AM EST (11PM PST Friday).
The full weigh-in results for DREAM.16 is as follows:
Tatsuya Mizuno (92.5 kg/203.5 lb) vs. Gegard Mousasi (93 kg/204.6 lb)
Jason “Mayhem” Miller (84 kg/184.8 lb) vs. Kazushi Sakuraba (83 kg/182.6 lb)
Shinya Aoki (69.7 kg/153.34 lb) vs. Marcus Aurelio (69.7 kg/153.34 lb)
Satoshi Ishii (107 kg/235.4 lb) vs. Ikuhisa “Minowaman” Minowa (88 kg/193.6 lb)
Chase Beebe (64 kg/140.8 lb) vs. Hiroyuki Takaya (64 kg/140.8 lb)
Michihiro Omigawa (65 kg/143 lb) vs. Cole Escovedo (65 kg/143 lb)
Joachim Hansen (63 kg/138.6 lb) vs. Hideo Tokoro (63 kg/138.6 lb)
Kazuyuki Miyata (65 kg/143 lb) vs. “Lion” Takeshi Inoue (65 kg/143 lb)
“Wicky” Akiyo Nishiura (64.8 kg/142.56 lb) vs. Mitsuhiro Ishida (65 kg/143 lb)
Yusuke Kawaguchi (115 kg/253 lb) vs. James Thompson (132 kg/290.4 lb)
Gegard Mousasi (29-3-1)
DREAM.16 is set for this Saturday, Sept. 25, at the Nippon Gaishi Hall in Nagoya, Japan. The show will be broadcast live in North America on HDNet early Saturday morning.
Openweight bout: Ikuhisa Minowa vs. Satoshi Ishii
Featherweight bout: Hiroyuki Takaya vs. Chase Beebe
Featherweight bout: Michihiro Omigawa vs. Cole Escovedo
Featherweight bout: Mitsuhiro Ishida vs. […]
DREAM.16 is set for this Saturday, Sept. 25, at the Nippon Gaishi Hall in Nagoya, Japan. The show will be broadcast live in North America on HDNet early Saturday morning.
Openweight bout: Ikuhisa Minowa vs. Satoshi Ishii
Featherweight bout: Hiroyuki Takaya vs. Chase Beebe
Featherweight bout: Michihiro Omigawa vs. Cole Escovedo
Featherweight bout: Mitsuhiro Ishida vs. Akiyo Nishiura
Middleweight bout: Kazushi Sakuraba vs. Jason Miller
Lightweight bout: Shinya Aoki vs. Marcus Aurelio
Featherweight bout:Kazuyuki Miyata vs. Takeshi Inoue
Featherweight bout: Hideo Tokoro vs. Joachim Hansen
Light Heavyweight Championship bout: Gegard Mousasi vs. Tatsuya Mizuno
Press Release
Jason “Mayhem” Miller (23-7) and Kazushi Sakuraba (26-13-1) are two of MMA’s most consummate showmen, known for their outrageous exploits in, out — and on the way to — the ring. Miller has idolized Sakuraba for 13 years, ever since the Japanese legend’s only appearance in the octagon at UFC Ultimate Japan 1. Now, […]
Press Release
Jason “Mayhem” Miller (23-7) and Kazushi Sakuraba (26-13-1) are two of MMA’s most consummate showmen, known for their outrageous exploits in, out — and on the way to — the ring. Miller has idolized Sakuraba for 13 years, ever since the Japanese legend’s only appearance in the octagon at UFC Ultimate Japan 1. Now, Miller faces a dilemma: how do you beat up your idol? LIVE coverage of this event begins Friday night, September 24 at 11:00 p.m. PT on HDNet!
“He wants to be the first to submit Sakuraba and to do it he knows he’s going to have to beat up on someone he adores,” says HDNet commentator, Michael Schiavello. “That’s a tough spot to be in and it makes this fight really interesting. If push comes to shove, and ‘Mayhem’ has to put one of those violent beatings on Sakuraba like we’ve seen opponents do in the past, will he be able to do it? Or will there be that moment of doubt, when ‘Mayhem’ thinks twice about it, and allows Sakuraba to quickly get his heel or arm and get a submission?”
In other action, Gegard Mousasi (29-3-1) faces Tatsuya Mizuno (8-5) for the vacant DREAM Light Heavyweight Title, Shinya Aoki (24-5) meets Marcus Aureilo (20-8), Michihiro Omigawa (11-8-1, won 7 of last 8 ) takes on Cole Escovedo (16-5), and Joachim Hansen (19-10-1) squares off with Hideo Tokoro (26-22-1).
“From top to bottom, this looks to be one of the best cards you will see on TV this year,” said Andrew Simon, CEO of HDNet Fights. “You have three fighters who are ‘Top 10′ in their respective divisions (Aoki, Omigawa, and Mousasi) and ‘Mayhem’ is facing one of the legends in our sport. HDNet will broadcast ALL of the fights (including those yet to be announced) LIVE from Japan to HDNet subscribers. Get ready to stay up late with HDNet!”
“HDNet Fights: DREAM 16″ airs LIVE at 11:00 p.m. PT this Friday, September 24, 2010.
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Ishi vs. Minowa announcement at 3:52)
DREAM officials announced the latest bout to the upcoming DREAM.16 event, an open-weight bout between Satoshi Ishi (1-1) vs. Ikuhisa “Minowaman” Minowa (46-30-8).
DREAM.16 will take place on Sept. 25 from the Nippon Gaishi Hall in Nagoya, Japan and the event will air live on HDNet in North America early Saturday […]
DREAM officials announced the latest bout to the upcoming DREAM.16 event, an open-weight bout between Satoshi Ishi (1-1) vs. Ikuhisa “Minowaman” Minowa (46-30-8).
DREAM.16 will take place on Sept. 25 from the Nippon Gaishi Hall in Nagoya, Japan and the event will air live on HDNet in North America early Saturday morning.
Former Olympic Judo Gold medalist, Ishi, will make his DREAM debut at the event. He earned his first professional mma victory against Tafa Misipati at a X-plosion: New Zealand vs. Japan event in New Zealand in May. While losing his pro debut to Hidehiko Yoshida at the Dynamite!! 2009 event on Dec. 31, 2009. Ishi is under contract with World Victory Road and is on loan to DREAM for the event.
Minowa is riding a five fight win streak, which includes winning the DREAM Super Hulk Grand Prix last year. He earned a submission win over Imani Lee by sinking in a rear-naked-choke in the first round of their DREAM.14 bout.
Minowa had been scheduled to face James Thompson at the event but poor buzz concerning the fight forced DREAM officials to look for a new opponent. A number of News sites talked with Thompson`s camp who said the promotion was looking for a new opponent but would ensure his payout regardless.
Dream featherweight champion, Bibiano Fernandes is thought by many to be the number one featherweight in the world, and his current seven fight win streak is certainly impressive. Dream has been the fighters home, but after a recent “money” issue in which Dream took some extra time to pay what the fighter was promised, […]
Dream featherweight champion, Bibiano Fernandes is thought by many to be the number one featherweight in the world, and his current seven fight win streak is certainly impressive. Dream has been the fighters home, but after a recent “money” issue in which Dream took some extra time to pay what the fighter was promised, many have wondered if the jiu-jitsu wonder would join the ranks of WEC in North America. The answer, at this time seems to be no, as he seems content to fight in Japan. Here’s the blurb via Tatame:
Well, man… I’ll be pretty honest with you: If someday I stop fighting in Japan, I won’t fight anywhere else because I’m not interested. My plan is Jiu-Jitsu, I love Jiu-Jitsu. Whatever I can do in order to help Jiu-Jitsu, I will. Dream is an excellent event, but is going through a difficult situation, I don’t really know what is going on. Whoever fought in Japan know what it feels like… The fans respect you there. I hope that, someday, Dream or other event may go though it and find a way out of this because it’s a good event, it’s beautiful and the Japaneses, for their own formation, need an event like Dream there. Before there wasn’t this problem, but I hope they really find a way out of this and that everything works out just fine for them.
Fernandes is a great representative for the sport and it would be fantastic to see him fighting in North America. A rematch against Urijah Faber would only be the first of many matchups but it seem’s pretty cut and dried that Japan is where the brazillian likes to fight.
