The officials over at FEG and DREAM officially made an expected announcement today that they will be holding their annual New Years Eve show again this year, at the Saitama Super Arena in Saitama, Japan. K-1 executive Sadaharu Tanikawa said that the event would follow last year’s hybrid format, including both K-1 bouts and Dream MMA bouts, to fill out an eighteen fight card.

The bracket for K-1’s World Grand Prix 2009 Final, which takes place on December 5 in Kanagawa, Japan, was set on Sunday in Seoul after the tournament’s eight fighters were determined in Saturday bouts at the K-1 World GP 2009 Final 16.

Badr Hari takes on Ruslan Karaev and Ewerton Texeira meets Alistair Overeem in side A of the tournament, while Jerome LeBanner fights Semmy Schilt and Remy Bonjasky squares off against Errol Zimmerman on side B.

Badr Hari, Alistair Overeem, Jerome Le Banner, Semmy Schilt, and Remy Bonjasky were among the winners at Saturday’s K-1 World Grand Prix 2009 Final 16 kickboxing event in Seoul, South Korea.

The winning fighters now advance to the K-1 World Grand Prix 2009 Finals on December 5 in Kanagawa, Japan, where they’ll participate in a one-night, eight-man tournament to crown the 2009 K-1 World Grand Prix champion.

Welcome the MMAFrenzy.com’s coverage of FieLDS Dynamite!! 2008, which took place on New Year’s Eve at the Saitama Super Arena in Saitama, Japan.
MMAFrenzy.com’s coverage of the massive card, which boasted eight kickboxing matches, including Badr Hari vs. Alistair Overeem and Musashi vs. Gegard Mousasi, as well as ten MMA bouts, including Mirko “Cro Cop” Filipovic [...]

Devastating striker Melvin Manhoef will step in last minute to take on Mark Hunt at tomorrow night’s epic “Fields Dynamite” event. Manhoef is replacing Hunt’s original opponent, K-1 superstar Jerome Le Banner, who is apparently out with influenza. One can only assume that officials are simply ignoring the fact that Mark Hunt outweighs Manhoef [...]

Talk about an ironic match up. According to Alistair Overeem’s official website, the Dutch “Demolition Man” will face off against K-1 bad boy Badr Hari at the upcoming “Fields Dynamite” New Years Eve show.
Overeem (40-24 MMA, 2-2 kickboxing) most recently fought to a no-contest against Mirko Cro Cop, who was forced to quit [...]

A long-rumored heavyweight rematch featuring Mirko “Cro Cop” Filipovic (23-6-2) and Alistair Overeem (40-11) tentatively scheduled for K-1 DYNAMITE!! 2008 on December 31st in Saitama, Japan has been postponed.
Fields Dynamite FEG executive Sadaharu Tanigawa officially announced that the bout had been delayed at a press conference earlier this week.
“Alistair is begging for this fight but [...]

Though we first made mention of a potential rematch between Kimbo Slice and Seth Petruzelli a couple days ago as a footnote to Cro Cop’s rematch with Alistair Overeem this rumor appears worthy of some front page attention.  Contained within a quasi-entertaining article from the Sun Sentinel is this casual tidbit about everyone’s favorite street [...]