Ishida Vs. Nakamura! Aoki Gets His Wish Granted
Two non-GP fights were announced for DREAM.7 today. Shinya Aoki will get his wish of a pre Welterweight GP fight granted as he takes on American David Gardner. The second announced fight is a high class one as Mitsuhiro Ishida returns to battle the exciting Daisuke Nakamura.
Update: The Aoki vs. Gardner fight will be fought at 74 kg, 2 kg under the DREAM Welterweight limit.
HEIWA DREAM.7 Featherweight GP 2009 1st Round
Date: March 8th, 2009
Place: Saitama Super Arena in Saitama, Japan
74 kg/163 lbs Fight:
Shinya Aoki vs. David Gardner
Lightweight Fight:
Mitsuhiro Ishida vs. Daisuke Nakamura
Featherweight GP Fights:
Masakazu Imanari vs. Atsushi Yamamoto
Hiroyuki Takaya vs. Kim Jong Won
Chase Beebe vs. Joe Warren
Takafumi Otsuka vs. Bibiano Fernandes
Akiyo “Wicky” Nishiura vs. Abel Cullum
Micah Miller vs. Yoshiro Maeda
Possible Participants:
Gegard Mousasi
Melvin Manhoef
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whats the weight for the Aoki fight?
74 kg
That’s pretty funny that Aoki was being serious about fighting at DREAM.7. It’ll probably be a good tune up fight for him coming back to a higher weight class.