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DREAM 5/29 Saitama Super Arena
By Zach Arnold | May 15, 2010
Start time – 16:00 (4 PM JST)
Just added:
Main card:
- Catch Weight (88 kg): Kazushi Sakuraba vs. Ralek Gracie
- Welterweights: Hayato Sakurai vs. Nick Diaz
- Featherweights: Yoshiro Maeda vs. Kenji Osawa
- Featherweights: Hiroyuki Takaya vs. Joachim Hansen
- Featherweights: Hideo Tokoro vs. Akiyo “Wicky” Nishiura
- Featherweights: Kazuyuki Miyata vs. Takafumi Otsuka
The media spin so far on this match announcement is that if Sakurai loses, this could be his final match. Sakurai is promising a career revival. DREAM relayed comments from Nick Diaz about the fight and Diaz said that he was completely confident that he would beat Sakurai in the same manner in which he beat Marius Zaromski.
Topics: DREAM, Japan, Media, MMA, StrikeForce, Zach Arnold | 10 Comments » | Permalink | Trackback |
They actually didn’t have a (South Korean) TV deal. They scheduled the show under the pretenses that everything would be squared away by then, but the lack of any stars made things stall out almost completely. They are fine now, though.
So they cancel their last show…. They put on only 2 shows during the 1st half of 2010…. And this is the best they can come up with?
Another gloriously irrelevant Japanese MMA show. Without merging all these promotions together, there’s basically no rebuilding that can happen. Instead, we get more companies. Blah.
Sakuraba vs. the Gracies: the Next Generation. *yawn* everything old is new again! Except now Saku is a total and utter shell of his former self and the “Gracies” are a distant derivative from the original.
I absolutley love Sakuraba,…but you are right.
Its a shame, because I’d love to see MMA become popluar in Japan again.
A random statistic…. Since the start of 2008, the combined record for the 8 Featherweight Fighters on the card is:
29-23-1
And it’s not like most of those wins are against world beaters….
Here we go again – 45 huddle and his ‘random statistic’ spam…
I almost never give out random stats like that…
While you’re at it 🙂 – the more telling statistic might be what the record of their opponents is over that same time period…
I wouldn’t say this card is as bad as people seem to be making it out to be but it certainly has a lack of depth that we’ve seen from the last few DREAM shows (IMO, anyway). I was wondering, though, I had heard that Katsunori Kikuno and/or Tatsuya Kawajiri may end up on this card, can anyone expand on that?