K-1 MAX's Final 16 is airing on TBS (Tokyo Broadcasting System) at 7AM ET. In the interest of not spoiling those who wish to wait for Friday's HDNet broadcast, all results and discussion will be hidden in the extended entry.

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All fighters made weight for tomorrow's K-1 World MAX 2009 Final 16 in Fukuoka, Japan - full weigh-in results, bout order and more photos in the extended entry. Don't forget to join us here at BloodyElbow.com tonight / tomorrow morning, Tuesday, April 21st at 3AM ET 7AM ET, for live results and discussion of what should be a phenomenal show.

HT: Sportsnavi

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DREAM 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

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