Old School Battle! Minowaman Vs. Funaki
Three new fights were announced for DREAM.6 today. In an old school fight, Minowaman, fresh off his win over Don Frye, will face Masakatsu Funaki. Keita Nakamura returns to MMA and the Lightweight division in a fight against Adriano Martins from Brazil. Hayato Sakurai looks to rebound from his loss against David Baron when he takes on Kuniyoshi Hironaka in a Welterweight fight.
Updates on both card updates from today will come in a separate post later.
OLYMPIA DREAM.6 Middleweight GP 2008 Final Round
Date: September 23rd, 2008
Place: Saitama Super Arena in Saitama, Japan
Single Fights:
HW: Mirko CroCop vs. Alistair Overeem
HW: Sergei Kharitonov vs. Mighty Mo
MW: Minowaman vs. Masakatsu Funaki
WW: Hayato Sakurai vs. Kuniyoshi Hironaka
LW: Keita Nakamura vs. Adriano Martins
FW: Hideo Tokoro vs. Atsushi Yamamoto
Middleweight GP Final Fight:
Mousasi/Manhoef vs. Jacare/Galesic
Middleweight GP Semifinal Fights:
Gegard Mousasi vs. Melvin Manhoef
Ronaldo Jacare vs. Zelg Galesic
Middleweight GP Reserve Fight:
Yoon Dong Sik vs. Andrews Nakahara
[...] In other fights, Braziliian lightweight Adriano Martins will be making his Japanese debut against UFC vet Keita “K-Taro” Nakamura. Nakamura had been rumored to be considering retirement after losing to Rob Emerson and sustaining an eye injury. Glad to see K-Taro getting back in the ring, he had some close losses in the UFC that impressed me (against welterweights Brock Larson and Drew Fickett). If he figures out how to cut weight right he should be a threat at lightweight. [...]
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