Additional Bouts Announced For DREAM 8
DREAM today announced additional bouts for DREAM 8, which takes place on April 5th at the Nippon Gaishi Hall in Nagoya, Japan and features the opening round of the promotion’s welterweight grand prix.
Announced today were the opening round GP matchups of Shinya Aoki vs. Hayato “Mach” Sakurai, Yuya Shirai vs. Jason High, Marius Zaromskis vs. Seichi Ikemoto, and Andre Galvao vs. John Alessio. A non-tournament bout featuring Jeff Monson and Sergey Kharitonov was also announced.
DREAm 8 airs on HDNet on April 10th at 10pm ET.
The event’s official lineup features:
Welterweight Grand Prix Opening Round
- Hayato “Mach” Sakurai vs. Shinya Aoki
- Yuya Shirai vs. Jason High
- Marius Zaromskis vs. Seichi Ikemoto
- John Alessio vs. Andre Galvao
Featherweight Grand Prix Opening Round
- Hideo Tokoro vs. Daiki Hata
Non-Grand Prix Bouts
- Katsuyori Shibata vs. Ikuhisa Minowa
- Dong Sik Yoon vs. Murilo “Ninja” Rua
- Andrews Nakahara vs. Shungo Oyama
- Sergei Kharitonov vs. Jeff Monson
Tags: Andre Galvao, Andrews Nakahara, Daiki Hata, Dong Sik Yoon, Hayato Sakurai, Hideo Tokoro, Ikuhisa Minowa, Jason High, Jeff Monson, john alessio, Katsuyori Shibata, Marius Zaromskis, murilo rua, Seichi Ikemoto, Sergei Kharitonov, Shinya Aoki, Shungo Oyama, Yuya Shirai
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First off DREAM has some of the sickest fight posters around seriously..
Jeff Monson v Sergei Kharitonov is an interesting fight, but I don’t see it going good for Monson, especially after he “won” that fight against Nelson, if he fights like that Sergei is going to end Jeff’s night rather early..
Aoki v Mach is going to be a good fight I think, but the WW GP doesn’t look as strong as I would have hoped it to be
Ninja back in Japan should be nice for him, we shall see how this Rua transitions to DREAM, perhaps he will be “testing the waters” in anticipation of someones return
I personally can’t wait for DREAM.8
Yeah, maybe Ninja is testing the waters for his brother.
I agree that Monson will not do well against Kharitonov… heh, maybe he’ll move to (the city of) Japan though, instead of coming back to face his legal problems over here… haha.
Aoki v. Mach will be good, and I look forward to it, but I don’t see the benefit of having the two Japanese superstars face one another in the opening round, unless they don’t think they could both make it to the finals.
Also, I don’t know much about Galvao, but he better win because Alessio is a very mediocre fighter.
this week is going to kick ass I can’t wait for Wednsday let alone the 5th of April WEC and DREAM hells ya