3/15 DREAM Fights Announced

DREAM has announced 3 more fights in their Lightweight GP. In addition to that, it is rumored that there will be a 10 minute first round.

As expected few of the big stars are facing eachother in the first round (with the exception of JZ vs. Aoki). However, there are no easy fights in this tournament and the way it is set up will lead to either big upsets or extremely interesting 2nd round.

Tatsuya Kawajiri 20-4-2 vs. 9-6-0 Kultar “Black Mamba” Gil
Kazuyuki Miyata 5-6-0 vs. 11-3-0 Luiz Firmino "Buscape"
Koutetsu Boku 13-4-1 vs. 16-6-1 Joachim Hansen

Previously Announced:
Shinya Aoki 12-2-0 vs. 14-1-1 Gesias "J.Z." Calvancante

Also Participating:
Andre "Dida" Amade 6-2-1
Mitsuhiro Ishida 15-3-1
Caol Uno 24-10-4
Gilbert Melendez 13-1-0
Bu Kyung Jung 0-1-0
Artur Oumakhanov 7-2-0
+2 fighters yet to be named

Sources:
http://www.dreamofficial.com/fightcard/
http://nightmareofbattle.wordpress.com/2008/02/26/fights-announced-10-minute-first-round/

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12/31 M-1 - Saitama Superarena - Is confirmed

M-1 has held a press conference in Tokyo today. Confirmed at the conference was that Fedor will fight on NYE. The event is supported by M-1, with the help of former Pride staff.

Fighters confirmed for the event:
Fedor Emelianenko
Joachim Hansen
Ricardo Arona (?)
Gilbert Melendez
Luiz Azeredo
Aoki Shinya
Kazuo Misaki
TatsuyaKawajiri
Hayato "Mach" Sakurai
Mitsuhiro Ishida
Hasegawa Hidehiko

The M-1 homepage also mentions Alexander Emelianenko and Roman Zentsov (No mention of Hong Man Choi).

This will without a doubt be the biggest event of the year!!!!

The event will be shown on SkyPerfect PPV.

Tickets can be purchased here: http://www.yarennoka.com/

It seems confirmed now that the opponent will be Hong Man Choi

Arona has in an interview with GracieMag.com denied that he will fight in the NYE event, some personal problems are stopping him from travel to Japan this time. However, he mentions the possiblity of fighitng in February.

Other source
http://www.mixfight.ru/news/2007/11/20/M-1Global-conference-Japan/
http://sportsnavi.yahoo.co.jp/fight/other/headlines/etc/20071121-00000021-spnavi-fight.html
http://news.livedoor.com/article/detail/3398724/
http://www.fightopinion.com/2007/11/21/nye-mma-event-in-saitama-confirmed/
http://www.sherdog.com/news/news.asp?n_id=10062
http://www.signfedor.com/

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