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Post subject: DREAM 9 - May 26, 2009  Posted: Tue Apr 21, 2009 3:14 am |
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Date: May 26, 2009
Location: Kanagawa, Japan
Venue: Yokohama Arena
Broadcast: HDNet (North America)
Second Round Feather Weight Grand Prix bouts
* the United States Abel Cullum vs. Japan Hideo Tokoro
* Japan Masakazu Imanari vs. Brazil Bibiano Fernandes
* Japan Yoshiro Maeda vs. Japan Hiroyuki Takaya
* Japan Norifumi Yamamoto vs. the United States Joe Warren
First Round Open Weight Grand Prix ("Super Hulk Tournament") bouts
* the United States Bob Sapp vs. Japan Ikuhisa Minowa
* South Africa Jan Nortje vs. Cameroon Rameau Thierry Sokoudjou
* Armenia Gegard Mousasi vs. New Zealand Mark Hunt
* South Korea Choi Hong-man vs. Cuba José Canseco
Non-Grand Prix bouts
* DREAM Middleweight Title bout
the United States Jason Miller vs. Brazil Ronaldo Souza
* Lightweight bout
Japan Tatsuya Kawajiri vs. Brazil Gesias Calvancante
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Post subject: Re: DREAM 9 Posted: Tue Apr 21, 2009 4:02 am |
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Post subject: Re: DREAM 9 Posted: Tue Apr 21, 2009 7:56 am |
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Yet another badass card from DREAM if the lineup holds. Hopefully, I won't fall asleep like I did in DREAM 8... 
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Post subject: Re: DREAM 9 - May 26, 2009 Posted: Mon Apr 27, 2009 5:56 pm |
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It will be great to finally see Norifumi "Kid" Yamamoto in action again. But to me the non tournament bouts looks better then the tournament itself
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Post subject: Re: DREAM 9 - May 26, 2009 Posted: Tue Apr 28, 2009 2:05 pm |
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Ronaldo "Jacare" Souza 's TBA is Jason "Mayhem" Miller.
Mayhem is looking to correct past mistakes and antics in this rematch. This will be for the DREAM Middleweight Championship. Gegard Mousasi has vacated the belt to move up to Light Heavyweight.
My picks if the card holds:
- Mayhem by decision
- Mousasi by whirlwind of destruction
- Kawijiri by [T]KO
- "Kid" by decision
- Maeda by stepping into the ring
- Tokoro by submission or Cullum by KO (good matchup)
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Post subject: Re: DREAM 9 - May 26, 2009 Posted: Thu Apr 30, 2009 9:39 am |
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Post subject: Re: DREAM 9 - May 26, 2009 Posted: Thu Apr 30, 2009 5:38 pm |
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HDNet will air DREAM.9 live in North America
On the same day the Japanese-based DREAM organization announced a hotly debated eight-man open-weight tournament at DREAM.9, HDNet Fights CEO Andrew Simon put some icing on the cake.
Simon, a guest on today's edition of MMAjunkie.com Radio (www.mmajunkie.com/radio), broke the news that DREAM.9 will air live on HDNet.
Past DREAM events have aired on muti-day tape delays, but Simon said HDNet will air the May 26 event live from Japan.
DREAM.9 takes place at the Yokohama Arena in Kanagawa, Japan.
Even prior to today's open-weight tournament news, DREAM.9 featured a star-studded card with Gesias "JZ" Cavalvante vs. Tatsuya Kawajiri in the main event and a co-headline bout between Ronaldo "Jacare" Souza vs. Jason "Mayhem" Miller for the vacant DREAM middleweight title.
DREAM.9 also features the second round of the organization's featherweight grand prix. Bouts include Norifumi "Kid" Yamamoto vs. Joe Warren, Yoshiro Maeda vs. Hiroyuki Takaya, and Bibiano Fernandes vs. Masakazu Imanari.
And today, the organization announced a "Super Hulk Tournament" with notables such as former MLB player Jose Canseco vs. 7-foot-2 Hong Man Choi, Mark Hunt vs. DREAM middleweight grand prix winner Gegard Mousasi, and 350-pound Jan Nortje vs. PRIDE/UFC vet Rameau Thierry Sokoudjou.
Simon said HDNet has the option to air events live or via tape delay on HDNet. While the all-high-definition cable station usually shies away from airing weekday Japanese events live (because they air in North America in very early-morning hours), he said the interest in DREAM.9 convinced HDNet President Mark Cuban and him to air the event live.
"Who doesn't want to see Jose Canseco take on Hong Man Choi in the U.S. in the middle of the night?" Simon joked. "We have over 34 events on air this year. One thing we're committed to is bringing events live when we can."
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Post subject: Re: DREAM 9 - May 26, 2009 Posted: Fri May 01, 2009 1:45 pm |
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Post subject: Re: DREAM 9 - May 26, 2009 Posted: Mon May 04, 2009 4:58 pm |
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Yup live is always the best 
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Post subject: Re: DREAM 9 - May 26, 2009 Posted: Wed May 13, 2009 10:13 pm |
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