Dream 8
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Background
Dream 8: Welterweight Grand Prix 2009 1st Round is a 10-bout fight card that is set to take place on April 5, 2009 at the Nippon Gaishi Hall in Nagoya, Japan.
The card will be broadcast on HD Net at 9pm ET on April 11th and will feature the opening round of Dream's Welterweight (168 lbs.) Grand Prix.
Fight Card
- Welterweight Grand Prix Bout: Shinya Aoki vs. Hayato Sakurai
- Welterweight Grand Prix Bout: Jason High vs. Yuya Shirai
- Welterweight Grand Prix Bout: Marius Zaromskis vs. Seichi Ikemoto
- Welterweight Grand Prix Bout: John Alessio vs. Andre Galvao
- Featherweight Grand Prix Bout: Hideo Tokoro vs. Daiki Hata
- Heavyweight Bout: Sergei Kharitonov vs. Jeff Monson
- Catchweight (197 lbs.) Bout: Murilo Rua vs. Riki Fukuda
- Lightweight Bout: Katsuhiko Nagata vs. Vitor Ribeiro
- Middleweight Bout: Shungo Oyama vs. Andrews Nakahara
- Catchweight (194 lbs.) Bout: Ikuhisa Minowa vs. Katsuyori Shibata
Pre-Event Notes
The Featherweight Grand Prix bout between Hideo Tokoro and Daiki Hata was originally to take place on DREAM 7 but the bout was pushed back to this card in order to give Hata time to recover from his qualifying win over Shoji Maruyama in February of 2009.
Seichi Ikemoto defeated Hidetaka Monma at DEEP 40 to earn a spot in the welterweight grand prix.
Yuya Shirai defeated Yoon Young Kim in a qualifying bout in the DEEP organization to also earn a spot in the welterweight grand prix.
Andrews Nakahara was originally slated to face fellow former DREAM Middleweight Grand Prix competitor, Zelg Galesic, but an injury to Galesic forced his replacement, in the form of fellow DREAM Middleweight Grand Prix entrant, Shungo Oyama.
Murilo Rua was first matched up against Dong Sik Yoon but an injury to Yoon two days prior to the bout forced Riki Fukuda to step in on short notice. Such was the short notice that Fukuda stated he was unable to make weight and the bout was changed to a catchweight of 89 kg.
Results
- Catchweight (194 lbs.) Bout: Katsuyori Shibata defs. Ikuhisa Minowa via unanimous decision.
- Middleweight Bout: Andrews Nakahara defs. Shungo Oyama via TKO (punches) at 2:00 of round 1.
- Lightweight Bout: Vitor Ribeiro defs. Katsuhiko Nagata via TKO (cut stoppage) at 7:58 of round 1.
- Catchweight Bout (197 lbs.): Riki Fukada defs. Murilo Rua via unanimous decision.
- Heavyweight Bout: Jeff Monson defs. Sergei Kharitonov via submission (north/south choke) at 1:42 of round 1.
- Featherweight Tournament Bout: Daiki Hata defs. Hideo Tokoro via unanimous decision.
- Welterweight Tournament Bout: Andre Galvao defs. John Alessio via submission (armbar) at 7:34 of round 1.
- Welterweight Tournament Bout: Marius Zaromskis defs. Seichi Ikemoto via unanimous decsiion
- Welterweight Tournament Bout: Jason High defs. Yuya Shirai via submission (rear naked choke) at :59 of round 1.
- Welterweight Tournament Bout: Hayato Sakurai defs. Shinya Aoki via KO (knees and punches) at :27 of round 1.
Sakurai flew out from his corner with a whirlwind of knees and punches that Aoki ducked under and secured a takedown from. As Aoki worked for position, Sakurai rolled him to his side and landed some vicious knees that knocked Aoki cold and then followed up with some more punches, which had the ref stop the fight.
DREAM Event Chronology
Preceded by: DREAM 7
Followed by: DREAM 9
External Links
http://www.dreamofficial.com/free/fightcard/ - Official DREAM Events Page
--Sam Cupitt 15:07, 4 April 2009 (UTC)
