DREAM "Fight for Japan" New Years Eve - Card Updates

[keithlewis]

DREAM: Fight for Japan – Genki Desu Ka! New Year! 2011
12/31/2011
Saitama Super Arena
Saitama, Japan



Fight Card:


Fedor Emelianenko vs. Satoshi Ishii
Shinya Aoki vs. Satoru Kitaoka – DREAM Lightweight title match
Hiroyuki Takaya vs. Takeshi “Lion” Inoue – DREAM Featherweight title match
Tatsuya Kawajiri vs. Kazuyuki Miyata

Hayato “Mach” Sakurai vs. Ryo Chonan
Megumi Fujii vs. Karla Benitez


Yuta Kubo vs Nils Widlund - Kickboxing
Masaaki Noiri vs Kengo Sonoda - Kickboxing
Yuichiro “Jien-Otsu” Nagashima vs. Katsunori Kikuno – Mix rule one match (1R – 3min kickboxing rules, 2R – 5min MMA rules)


Kazuyuki Fujita vs. Peter Aerts – IGF one match (IGF rules)
Josh Barnett vs. Hideki Suzuki – IGF one match (IGF rules)
Tim Sylvia vs. Jerome Le Banner – IGF one match (IGF rules)
Kazushi Sakuraba and Katsuyori Shibata vs. Shinichi Suzukawa and Atsushi Sawada - IGF one match (IGF rules)



DREAM Bantamweight Tournament:

Bibiano Fernandes vs. Rodolfo Marques Diniz – DREAM Bantamweight Tournament semi-final 1
Masakazu Imanari vs. Antonio Banuelos – DREAM Bantamweight Tournament semi-final 2

Hideo Tokoro vs. Yusup Saadulaev – DREAM Bantamweight Tournament reserve match

[keithlewis]

Aoki gets an opponent and the rumors are that the NYE special will feature a mix of K-1 and pro wrestling bouts to go along with MMA fights!

[keithlewis]

Hideo Tokoro and Yusup Saadulaev added as tournament reserves.

[keithlewis]

A women's bout has been added to the year-end "DREAM: New Year! 2011" event.

Japanese notable and recent Bellator fighter Megumi Fujii (24-1 MMA, 0-0 DREAM) and Spanish vet Karla Benitez (6-1 MMA, 0-0 DREAM) have agreed to meet at the show.

MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com) confirmed the planned matchup with an event source. Sherdog first reported the likelihood of the bout, which marks both fighters' DREAM debut.

[keithlewis]

Fedor Emelianenko vs. Satoshi Ishii added to the NYE card!

[NWOWolfpack]

So with UFC 141 and the Dream................ there are going to be fights from basically 5 PM EST Dec. 30 til 9 AM EST Dec. 31.

[keithlewis]

As of now the final card is posted in the opening post but it's Japan and that could change.

[ArmyofDarkness]

^^2 kickboxing matches added to Genki Desu Ka!!

Yuta Kubo vs Nils Widlund, Masaaki Noiri vs Kengo Sonoda Added to DREAM NYE Event

www.LiverKick.com

Yuta Kubo vs Nils Widlund
Masaaki Noiri vs Kengo Sonoda