DREAM.8 and K-1 MAX Final 16 Cards Finalized
by Chris Nelson on Apr 2, 2009 12:24 PM EDT
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PrintDREAM and K-1 parent company Fighting and Entertainment Group today released the full fight cards for both this Sunday's DREAM.8 and the April 21st K-1 MAX Final 16 events. The DREAM bout order was also released and Nightmare Of Battle points out that the Oyama-Nakahara bout has shifted from middleweight (84kg limit) to a catchweight of 86kg.
DREAM.8
April 5, 2009
Nippon Gaishi Hall
Nagoya, Japan
Welterweight Grand Prix Bouts
Hayato "Mach" Sakurai vs. Shinya Aoki
Yuya Shirai vs. Jason High
Marius Zaromskis vs. Seichi Ikemoto
John Alessio vs. Andre Galvao
Featherweight Grand Prix Bout
Hideo Tokoro vs. Daiki "DJ.taiki" Hata
Heavyweight (93kg+) Bout
Sergei Kharitonov vs. Jeff Monson
Middleweight (84kg) Bout
Yoon Dong Sik vs. Murilo "Ninja" Rua
Lightweight (70kg) Bout
Vitor "Shaolin" Ribeiro vs. Katsuhiko Nagata
Catchweight (86kg) Bout
Andrews Nakahara vs. Shungo Oyama
Catchweight (88kg) Bout
Ikuhisa "Minowaman" Minowa vs. Katsuyori Shibata
K-1 WORLD MAX 2009 World Championship Tournament: Final 16
April 21, 2009
Marinemesse Fukuoka
Fukuoka, Japan
K-1 World MAX 2009 Tournament Final 16 Bouts
Yoshihiro Sato vs. DRAGO
Buakaw Por. Pramuk vs. Andre "Dida" Amade
Albert Kraus vs. Youichiro "Jienotsu" Nagashima
Andy Souwer vs. Leroy Keastner
Artur Kyshenko vs. Alviar Lima
Taishin Kohiruimaki vs. Chi Bin Lim
Dzhabar "Gengis Khan" Askerov vs. Giorgio Petrosyan
Chahid "The Pitbull" Oulad El Hadj vs. Nieky "The Natural" Holtzken
K-1 World MAX 2009 Tournament Reserve Bout
Yuya Yayamoto vs. Su Hwan Lee
K-1 MAX Bouts
TATSUJI vs. RYUJI
Kazuki Hamasaki vs. Hareruya
K-1 Lightweight Bout
Masahiro Yamamoto vs. YUKI
Exhibition Match (3 Min.)
Masato vs. HIROYA
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Shibata/Minowaman = main event = hilarity. Overall, not really excited for Dream.8. Mach/Aoki, Khari/Monson, and maybe Alessio/Galvao are the only appealing matches to me.
The MAX card looks really good. A lot of new, fresh faces in there. It’s going to be a really exciting tourney this year. It’s nice to see Lima finally get a go in MAX too. Hopefully Chi Bin Lim can knock off the hated Kohi.
That was my bad, I listed Minowaman-Shibata as the main event in the post originally.
I guess they want that one out of the way early so they can show it at the top of the TBS broadcast.
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I don’t think so.
For DREAM.7 TBS showed the Aoki/Gardner fight first on their broadcast. Since TBS edits the whole event, they usually switch around the order of all fights.
Minowa usually fights first because he comes out, has exciting entrance, gets all hyped, does the “punching-the-crowd” thing if he wins…it’s a good way to start off the show, gets the crowd into it.
I think we're agreeing that Minowa-Shibata should open the show, just for different reasons.
I know Minowa gets the live crowd hype, but two pro wrestlers squaring off is probably the money match for TBS as well.
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Every fight on DREAM.8 is interesting to me.
Shibata/Minowa will be a lot of fun. If it works out the way it’s planned it will really get the fans into the event, and the steam will carry through the whole card.
Shoalin’s back. Awesome. I think it’s the right fight to give him after being gone for two years. It would be silly to throw him in with upper echelon competition after that long off. After this fight, though, it’s rematch time with either Ishida/Kawajiri/JZ/Nakamura, whomever.
I think Jeff Monson is a good step up for Kharitonov, who is also coming off of a few years of relative inactivity. I’m really hoping Sergei is back in form, and knocks the shit outta Monson.
Tokoro/DJ.Taiki will be fight of the night, easily. If DJ.Taiki brings it like he did against his GP qualifying fight with Shoji…G-D DAMN, it will be epic.
I think this will be a coming out party for Zaromskis too. The way people talk about Melvin Manhoef now is how they will talk about Zaromskis in the future. The guy is insane. If Ikemoto decides to trade with him…it will be an excellent fight.
Then the rematch, Sakurai vs. Aoki. After seeing the recent pictures of Aoki I might be moving away from him a bit. There’s no doubt that his body frame is perfect for lightweight, and we’ve seen what weightclass hubris can do to a person. It’ll be a crazy match either way, and I think it’s going to go to a decision. It might end up being decided by whichever guy has more gas in the tank during Round 2.
Either way, DREAM.8 is going to be awesome. And I’ll definitely be staying up to watch it live.
by AnonymousA on Apr 2, 2009 1:58 PM EDT reply actions 1 recs
Dzhabar "Gengis Khan" Askerov vs. Giorgio Petrosyan
Awesome! Good to see this two promising young fighters matched-up. Dzhabar throws hard but I’m curious to see how he’ll adjust to the K-1 rules.
"Because I rode in here on my fucking Thunderhorse and handled business."
Minowa vs. Shibata is kind of a joke fight, but I think the DREAM 8 card looks great, all of the winners of the non-tourney bouts will be set up for bigger potential fights later in 2009.
The K-1 MAX Final 16 is sick, wicked and nasty. At least half the competitors have a realistic chance to go all the way. I would tab Petrosyan, Sato, Kyshenko, Buakaw, Souwer and Kohirumaki as the best bets
Alright, there is a 92.7% chance that I am an idiot, but when is HDNet airing Dream? I looked all over my onscreen guide for it and it isn’t listed. Please help, I am starting to panic…
If you're not submitting, you're just rolling around with another guy.
Wait, are you talking about NEXT Friday, April 10th??
DAMNNNNNNNNNN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
If you're not submitting, you're just rolling around with another guy.
Seriously, I have no idea why they don’t air this live AND broadcast it Friday night?!?!?
If you're not submitting, you're just rolling around with another guy.
I don’t get it either. If you’re a pay channel, give the people what they’re paying for!
But here’s the statement (re: DREAM.7) from CEO Andrew Simon:
HDNet would love to show DREAM live, but the issue is that they are having the event on a Sunday night in Tokyo…it makes for an awful time for people to watch in the U.S. I would love if DREAM held events on Friday or Saturday, then we would air it LIVE. We try to keep our new MMA programming primarily on Fridays and some Saturdays so fans always know when they can catch MMA on HDNet. The Friday the 13th weekend will be incredible on HDNet — DREAM 7 and Affliction Day of Reckoning. With over 35 events planned for this year, HDNet is THE Home for MMA. We are very excited to show the debut of Sengoku LIVE on HDNet in March as well. No decision has been made on DREAM 8 airtime as of today.
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