DREAM event producer Keiichi Sasahara and FEG executive Sadaharu Tanigawa today formally announced "FieLDS Dynamite!! 2009" for December 31st. Tanigawa said he expects nearly 40,000 fans to pack Saitama Super Arena this New Year's Eve, and therefore will have to make "an all-star show."
Dynamite!! 2009
December 31, 2009
Saitama Super Arena
Saitama, Japan
Rumored Fights
Main Event - K-1 Rules
Masato vs. Andy Souwer III
"Masato’s fight is currently the plan for main event of the night. However, it isn’t sure that the fight will be against this years MAX champion. A potential opponent is also Andy Souwer (winning the MAX GP or not), who Masato has never beaten in K-1." - Nightmare of Battle
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Rumored Participants
Shinya Aoki
Badr Hari
Tatsuya Kawajiri
Jerome Le Banner
Alistair Overeem
Kazushi Sakuraba
Hayato "Mach" Sakurai
Tim Sylvia
Kiyoshi Tamura
Norifumi "Kid" Yamamoto
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Give Tim the Lebanner fight he has always wanted. :D
by SplitBreast on Oct 14, 2009 11:50 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs
I read that Tim was going to be fighting either Overeem or Hong Man Choi on NYE. For his sake I hope it’s Choi.
by scrambledeggs on Oct 14, 2009 1:06 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Masato's
fight against Souwer or the MAX winner may be 5 to 10 rounds!
This is going to be a hell of a show.
by meyer1244 on Oct 14, 2009 11:53 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs
10 rounds is ridiculous for a K-1 fight.
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by Leland Roling on Oct 14, 2009 2:18 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Yeah it’s definitely overkill, but in this case this fight won’t go past the 3rd.
by scrambledeggs on Oct 14, 2009 7:36 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Wasn’t Masato going to fight the GP winner?
by Meshuggeth on Oct 14, 2009 12:02 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
Yeah, Tanigawa said they may just skip that and have him fight Souwer regardless.
10 rounds would be craaaazy… but Masato’s legs couldn’t make it into the 3rd last time…
by Chris Nelson on Oct 14, 2009 12:13 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Another fight with Souwer would be more of a nostalgic and memorable way to go out i guess a lot of people think, also would be more of a draw probably considering the history the two have. I personally want to see him battle Petrosyan, who i believe will win MAX. But really both fights would be great.
by meyer1244 on Oct 14, 2009 12:33 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
FEG probably think Petrosyan will win MAX as well, hence this change of the schedule.
by omigawda on Oct 14, 2009 1:23 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Did they confirm Aoki v Crusher? Or is this just them putting a bunch of big names out there to hype the event?
I suspect Musashi’s real last fight will be on this card. Hopefully not against Badr.
by omigawda on Oct 14, 2009 1:27 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
Aoki-Kawajiri will almost definitely happen. Aoki may not want to fight, but ’Jiri wants it badly and FEG owes it to him.
by Chris Nelson on Oct 14, 2009 3:05 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
They want to do it but aoki has said he wants to rest.
by Phildo on Oct 15, 2009 9:33 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
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