The Japanese promotional group FEG, which runs the Dream MMA events, has long be suggesting that they had a big surprise in store for their already announced Dream 12 event, which will take place on October 25 in Osaka, Japan. They had already released a short promotional video in which were a few shots of a cage which led some people to believe that would be the surprise. Those people were correct, and Dream has officially confirmed that with a new promotional video for the event (included below).

Hayato "Mach" Sakurai needed just 27-seconds to knockout Shinya Aoki on Sunday at the Nippon Gaishi Hall in Nagoya, Japan, pinning him in the corner of the ring before unloading a series of knees and punches that forced the referee to halt the DREAM 8 main event.

All twenty DREAM 8 fighters, including headliners Hayato "Mach" Sakurai and Shinya Aoki, successfully made weight today in Japan for their bouts tomorrow at the Saitama Super Arena in Saitama, Japan.

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.

Kazushi Sakuraba def. Andrews Nakahara via submission – Round 1, 8:20
Gegard Mousasi def. Denis Kang via submission – Round 1, 3:10
Kiyoshi Tamura def. Masakatsu Funaki via TKO – Round 1, 0:57
Ronaldo “Jacare” Souza def. Ian Murphy via submission – Round 1, 3:38
Zelg Galesic def. Magomed Sultanakhmedov via submission – Round 1, [...]