DREAM 7 Results: Six Featherweights Advance; Aoki Victorious
Shinya Aoki
The majority of the field for the DREAM featherweight tournament quarterfinals was set on Sunday at DREAM 7 as six 145-pound fighters advanced into the second round of the grand prix. Norifumi “Kid” Yamamoto was granted a first-round bye, while the eighth and final tournament slot will be filled by the winner of a DREAM 8 fight between Hideo Tokoro and Daika Hata.
Masakazu Iminari, Hiroyuki Takaya, Yoshiro Maeda, Abel Cullum, Joe Warren, and Bibiano Fernandes advanced on Sunday while notables Chase Beebe and Micah Miller failed to make it into the second-round. Tatsuya Kawajiri, Shinya Aoki, and Mitsuhiro Ishida picked up non-tournament victories.
FEATHERWEIGHT TOURNAMENT (Opening Round)
- Masakazu Iminari def. Atsushi Yamamoto via split decision
- Hiroyuki Takaya def. Jong Won Kim via TKO (strikes) — Round 2, 0:40
- Yoshiro Maeda def. Micah Miller via unanimous decision
- Abel Cullum def. Akiyo Nishiura via unanimous decision
- Joe Warren def. Chase Beebe via TKO (cut) — Round 1, 10:00
- Bibiano Fernandes def. Takafumi Otsuka via unanimous decision
NON-TOURNAMENT BOUTS
- Tatsuya Kawajiri def. Ross Ebanez via submission (rear naked choke) — Round 1, 4:03
- Shinya Aoki def. David Gardner via submission (rear naked choke) — Round 1, 5:58
- Mitsuhiro Ishida def. Daisuke Nakamura via unanimous decision
Tags: Abel Cullum, Akiyo Nishiura, Atsushi Yamamoto, Bibiano Fernandes, Chase Beebe, Daisuke Nakamura, David Gardner, Hiroyuki Takaya, Joe Warren, Jong Won Kim, Masakazu Iminari, Micah Miller, Mitsuhiro Ishida, Ross Ebanez, Shinya Aoki, Takafumi Otsuka, Tatsuya Kawajiri, Yoshiro Maeda
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Well seeing how no one has seemed to have watched the DREAM.7 event other than myself, I would like to state that Beebe looked fantastic, cut wide open from forehead to cheek.. He opting out of the event a few weeks back (claimed a injury) to fight here on the DREAM.7 card and he got whooped on… He looked off to say the least and ya I did like him but its kinda one of those “he had it comming to him” type of things, but hey thats just my thoughts…
Ishida did what he does, he had like 6 takedowns in the first and control the entire match, he even defended the flying triangle attempt quite well, don’t sleep on Ishida, he just might have the best pure wrestling @ 155 (Gun, I know that Gray is good and so is Sherk, but he powers through guys and there is nothing anyone can do about it)
Wicky looked horrible bottom line
Aoki, well if you haven’t seen how that fight ended look it up find a gif do something because it just might make you laugh… And Aoki took a puch or two and didn’t crumble, his judo and jui jitsu are top notch and he can bitttch slap the back of someones head like nobodys business
I can’t wait for DREAM.8 in a little under a month
Yeah… 3 am start after a full day for me… couldn’t hang I may try to catch it next week somehow when HDNET runs it. Gonna go look for the Aoki fight soon though.
Just watched the Aoki fight…was that guy paid to lose or just freaking brain dead?!
Justin I doubt that FEG paid him to loose, not that I don’t believe that has never happend (PRIDE days) but really what would they have to gain.. No one expected the guy to win against Aoki, I just think that he was attempting to be like Mayhem Miller and look “cool” hell that was the 2nd time he did that in the fight and Aoki made him pay
I know, I was just commenting on how epically stupid that was. I also did catch the first time he did that, not just the last one where he was made to pay.
just F~ing with you my friend