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DREAM Bantamweight Tournament Highlight.DREAM.17: Japan GP Final Jul 16, 2011 Ariake Coliseum, Tokyo, Japan (live?) on HD NET Champ Gegard Mousasi vs. Hiroshi Izumi (205lbs title) Champ Hiroyuki Takaya vs. Kazuyuki Miyata (145lbs title) Masakazu Imanari vs. Hideo Tokoro (135lbs tournament finale) Atsushi Yamamoto vs. Kenji Osawa Willamy Freire vs. Tatsuya Kawajiri youtube.com/dream

Controversy In Kawajiri Vs. Calvan Fight?! Kawajiri Influencing The Referee? "At around 1:23 of the video, while they are entangled in the ropes and the referee puts his hand on them (probably for a restart, since that is a normal position to do it) Kawajiri says: "Todomenai de" in Japanese like three times which means "Don’t stop"." "The referee then doesn’t stop and move them to the middle until Kawajiri has mount position." "This might have become a better call since it seems like Kawajiri was on his way to a mount position and it would’ve been difficult to restart them at exactly such a position but people think Kawajiri’s words influenced the referees refereeing." "Also, Kawajiri vs. Masato had at the time of the fight most likely already been decided in case of victory for Kawajiri, and the DREAM people/management like Kawajiri." HT: Nightmareofbattle.com