DREAM.9 Final Card and Bout Order

by Chris Nelson on May 20, 2009 4:30 PM EDT

OLYMPIA DREAM.9
Featherweight Grand Prix 2009 2nd Round
May 26, 2009
Saitama Super Arena
Saitama, Japan

DREAM Middleweight (84kg/185 lbs) Title Bout
10. Ronaldo "Jacare" Souza (10-2) vs. Jason "Mayhem" Miller (22-6)

DREAM Featherweight (64kg/138 lbs) Grand Prix 2nd Round Bouts
09. Norifumi "KID" Yamamoto (17-1) vs. Joe Warren (1-0)
08. Masakazu Imanari (16-6-1) vs. Bibiano Fernandes (4-2)
07. Yoshiro Maeda (24-6-2) vs. Hiroyuki Takaya (10-6-1)
06. Hideo Tokoro (21-16-1) vs. Abel Cullum (14-2)

DREAM Lightweight (70kg/154 lbs) Title Eliminator Bout
05. Tatsuya Kawajiri (23-5-2) vs. Gesias "JZ" Cavalcante (14-2-1)

DREAM Super Hulk Tournament 1st Round Bouts
04. Gegard Mousasi (24-2-1) vs. Mark Hunt (5-5)
03. Jan "The Giant" Nortje (2-5) vs. Rameau Thierry Sokoudjou (5-4)
02. Hong Man Choi (1-2) vs. Jose Canseco (0-0)
01. Bob Sapp (10-3-1) vs. Ikuhisa "Minowaman" Minowa (41-30-8)

From the DREAM site.

- It looks like no additional fights will be announced, as Sasahara teased there may be earlier this week. Still... look at that card.

- The final press conference and weigh-ins will be held at Shinjuku Square Station in Tokyo on Monday, May 25, at 5:30 PM local time.

- ~~Since it's for the vacant middleweight title, the Jacare vs. Mayhem fight will be one 10-minute round followed by two 5-minute rounds.~~ It seems all the ~~other~~ fights will be the standard DREAM 10-and-5, though when the Super Hulk tourney was announced it was mentioned that there would be modified rules and possibly shorter rounds.

- HDNet is airing (what I assume will be) the entire show live, beginning at 5AM ET on Tuesday, May 26th, and of course we'll be here with full results, commentary and discussion.

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Where’s Consecos Vlog? :P Can’t wait for this my manager just approved my request to have Tues off!

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by xFenixKnightx on May 20, 2009 1:42 PM EDT reply actions

I like that DREAM decided for Mayhem vs. Jacare to be the Main Event.

With all of the Super Hulk talk, I feel bad for the Feather Weights being swept under the rug. Looking at those Feather Weight fights makes me remember how awesome of a card DREAM.9 really is.

by AnonymousA on May 20, 2009 1:50 PM EDT reply actions

I agree. I would have expected HMC/Canseco or Sapp/Minowa to be the main event.

by Ahhhoki on May 20, 2009 2:42 PM EDT up reply actions

Who is getting swept under the rug? Every fight on the card gets aired, and the FWGP bouts are higher on the card than the Super Hulk stuff. Tokoro and Kid are the only real draws in that tournament, they need a little support.

by smoogy on May 20, 2009 5:05 PM EDT up reply actions

Also, it’s doubtful TBS will leave Jacare-Miller as the main event for the primetime telecast. This event is made for TV, so it doesn’t matter what the main event in the actual arena is.

by Jordan Breen on May 20, 2009 5:28 PM EDT up reply actions

True. Minowa/Shibata was shown as the main event on TBS’s DREAM.8 broadcast.

by AnonymousA on May 20, 2009 5:44 PM EDT up reply actions

Relax, Home Skillet. I’m just referring to what the talk has been generalize towards for DREAM.9.

After the Super Hulk Grand Prix was announced no one was talking about the Feather Weight Grand Prix.

by AnonymousA on May 20, 2009 5:44 PM EDT up reply actions

Woohoo!

Can’t wait for this card, and I absolutely agree that the FW’s and Kid fighting is getting really overshadowed by the Hulk Tourney.

by MMASuPreMaCy on May 20, 2009 2:55 PM EDT reply actions

I really hope after Canseco fights they add him to the Sherdog.com fighters section of the site but use a 1980s baseball card as his picture.

Aside from the stupid matchmaking on this card, it should be entertaining.

by DirtyML on May 20, 2009 3:29 PM EDT reply actions

Sherdog and Dream need to list his baseball sttats in lieu of his fighting credentials

by Chromium on May 20, 2009 3:56 PM EDT up reply actions

No, they need to list his celebrity boxing stats, lol.

If you're not submitting, you're just rolling around with another guy.

by BJJDenver on May 20, 2009 7:23 PM EDT up reply actions

This card is glorious

It’s like an MMA three-ring circus

by Chromium on May 20, 2009 3:55 PM EDT reply actions

So is Canseco confirmed?

He said it was still up in the air last I checked.

by Flyghtt on May 20, 2009 4:15 PM EDT reply actions

Well, it’s a bout on a Japanese mma-card. Everything on a Japanese card is in the air, all the time, every time.

by Sventsh on May 20, 2009 5:12 PM EDT up reply actions

The Jacare-Mayhem bout isn’t 10-5-5. The 1R10分・2R5分 you see on Dream’s website means only that the first round is ten minutes, and the second is five, not that there’s one ten-minute round and two five-minute rounds.

by Jordan Breen on May 20, 2009 4:31 PM EDT reply actions

Ahh, got it. I’d seen it reported as 10-5-5 other places too, probably making the same mistake. Thanks for the correction.

by Chris Nelson on May 20, 2009 4:46 PM EDT up reply actions

This card needs a Royal Rumble.

I dislike Matt Hughes.

by MonkeyCHops on May 20, 2009 4:45 PM EDT reply actions

Anyone else think Mousasi & Soku may get badly KO’d in this thing?! They are giving up tons of size & power.

by frickshun on May 20, 2009 4:59 PM EDT reply actions

Nope, I’m picking Mousasi to win the whole thing.

Kuwabara Kuwabara

by J. B. Maddox on May 20, 2009 5:10 PM EDT up reply actions

I definitely don’t write off Jan The Giant like most do.

by Derek Suboticki on May 20, 2009 5:11 PM EDT up reply actions

Mousasi, no, he may lose, but I don’t think he’ll get beat badly. Soko, ehh, quite possibly (see: Cane, Luis)

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by Scott C. Broussard on May 20, 2009 5:49 PM EDT up reply actions

Mousasi is at risk just because of Hunt’s size and freakish power, and the fact that unlike most of the other “Hulk”-size competitors, he actually has some skill and isn’t slower than dirt. I think he’s a favourite, but it’s not unforseeable.

Unlike Subo, though, I have no idea how Jan could possibly beat Soku, even with Soku’s major problems. If Soku can’t beat The Giant, he needs to rethink this fight career thing.

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by AJB on May 20, 2009 6:10 PM EDT up reply actions