May 29th Japan Bantamweight Tournament (61kg/134.5 lbs), the 1st round and semifinals (finals and 3rd place fight will take place in July) @ Saitama Super Arena in Japan.
Official Fight Card
Caol Uno vs Akiyo Nishiura
Featherweight bout: Caol Uno (27-14-5) most known for title fight loss against Jens Pulver and draw against BJ Penn. Akiyo Nishiura (11-6-1) fought in Shooto and Cage Force before fighting in Dream and in December 31, 2010 he made his kickboxing debt that ended in a draw.
Mitsuhiro Ishida vs Joachim Hansen
Featherweight bout: Mitsuhiro Ishida (20-6-1) has a notable loss to Takanori Gomi in Pride Shockwave 2006. In Dream he lost to Caol Uno and won against Daisuke Nakamura both of which is fighting on the Dream card. Joachim Hansen (21-10-1) is known to hold an MMA world title after winning the Shooto World Welterweight Championship in 2003 from Takanori Gomi.
Katsunori Kikuno vs Daisuke Nakamura
Lightweight bout: Katsunori Kikuno (14-3-2) is the current DEEP Lightweight Champion and the DEEP 2009 Lightweight Tournament winner. Daisuke Nakamura (23-12) fought for virtually every promotion except for UFC.
Takeshi Inoue vs Koichiro Matsumoto
Featherweight bout: Takeshi Inoue (19-5) was a defending Shooto World Champion before losing to Hatsu Hioki. Koichiro Matsumoto (12-2) current DEEP featherweight Champion.
Shinya Aoki vs Antonio McKee
Lightweight bout: Shinya Aoki (27-5-1) is a DREAM Lightweight Champion and former Shooto Middleweight Champion. Ranked by Fightknights as #10 P4P Lightweight. Rich Clementi (40-19-1) was a contestant on The Ultimate Fighter 4, notably lost was to Gray Maynard.
Bantamweight Tournament Quarterfinals
Yoshiro Maeda vs Hideo Tokoro
Yoshiro Maeda (28-9-2) fought for the WEC Bantamweight Title at WEC 34 against Miguel Torres. Hideo Tokoro (27-23-1) competed in DREAM’s featherweight Grand Prix where he lost the 1st round but was brought back into the tournament where we won the 2nd round but lost in the semi-finals.
Darren Uyenoyama (6-3) vs Atsushi Yamamoto (12-6)
Kenji Osawa vs Takafumi Otsuka (8-3-1)
Kenji Osawa (16-9-2) currently fights in the WEC but his records comes fighting primarily in Shooto.
Keisuke Fujiwara vs Masakazu Imanari
Keisuke Fujiwara (11-2-4) is a current defending ZST Bantamweight Champion and ZST Genesis Tournament 2007 Bantamweight winner. Masakazu Imanari (21-8-2) is a current Cage Rage Featherweight Champion, DEEP Bantamweight Champion and the former DEEP Featherweight Champion.
Henry Liu
Is this going to be on TV?
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