Articles tagged with: Yoshiro Maeda
Strikeforce heavyweight champ Alistair Overeem and Bellator lightweight title-holder Eddie Alvarez were among the winners on Sunday at DREAM 12 in Osaka, Japan.
Overeem submitted James Thompson with a guillotine choke in under a minute in the DREAM 12 main event, while Alvarez used an arm-triangle choke to defeat Katsunori Kikuno in the second-round of their featured matchup.
Read More »All eighteen fighters scheduled to compete at tomorrow’s DREAM 12 event in Osaka, Japan hit the scales earlier today to weigh-in for their bouts. Lightweight Won Sik Park was the long fighter on the card who failed to make weight on their first attempt, with notables Alistair Overeem, James Thompson, Eddie Alvarez, Kazushi Sakuraba, and Chase Beebe all hitting their marks.
Read More »A bantamweight matchup between WEC veterans Chase Beebe and Yoshiro Maeda has been added to DREAM 12 on October 25 in Osaka, Japan, the promotion announced on Friday.
Read More »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).
Read More »A new DREAM middleweight champion failed to be crowned on Tuesday at DREAM 9, as Jason "Mayhem" Miller and Ronaldo "Jacare" Souza fought to a no contest in their headliner for the vacant title at the Yokohama Arena in Kanagawa, Japan.
Read More »A women's superfight between Gina Carano and Cris Cyborg is likely to take place in Strikeforce in August, Scott Smith suffered a shattered hand in Saturday's loss, DREAM has announced their featherweight grand prix pairings, and more...
Read More »Masakazu Iminari, Hiroyuki Takaya, Yoshiro Maeda, Abel Cullum, Joe Warren, and Bibiano Fernandes advanced on Sunday at DREAM 7 into the second-round of the promotion's featherweight tournament. Tatsuya Kawajiri, Shinya Aoki, and Mitsuhiro Ishida picked up non-tournament victories.
Read More »Welcome to MMAFrenzy.com’s live coverage of WEC 36 “Faber vs. Brown”, which takes place tonight at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Hollywood, Florida and airs live on Versus.
WEC featherweight champion Urijah Faber clashes with Mike Brown in this evening’s main event, while WEC middleweight champion Paulo Filho rematches Chael Sonnen in a [...]
Fighters hit the scales this afternoon in Florida to weigh-in for their matchups at WEC 36, which takes place tomorrow, November 5th, at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Hollywood, Florida and airs live on Versus.
WEC featherweight champion Urijah Faber weighed in under the 145-pound featherweight limit at 144.5 pounds on his initial [...]
World Extreme Cagefighting on Wednesday announced the complete lineup for WEC 36 “Faber vs. Brown”, which features a main event featherweight championship bout between 145-pound king Urijah Faber and challenger Mike Brown.
WEC 36 takes place on September 10th at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Hollywood, Floria and will air live on Versus.
The [...]
In front of a sold out crowd at the ARCO Arena in Sacramento, California, WEC featherweight champion Urijah Faber successfully defended his 145-pound title, besting former UFC lighweight champion Jens Pulver in a dominating-yet-exciting unanimous decision victory.
The “California Kid’s” victory highlighted the twelve-bout card which was broadcast on Versus.
Faber dominated from the opening bell, controlling [...]
QUICK RESULTS
Champion Urijah Faber def. Jens Pulver via unanimous decision
WEC Featherweight Championship
Champion Miguel Torres def. Yoshiro Maeda via TKO – Round 3, 5:00
WEC Bantamweight Championship
Mark Munoz def. Chuck Grigsby via KO – Round 1, 4:15
Rob McCullough def. Kenneth Alexander via split decision
Donald Cerrone def. Danny Castillo via submission – Round 1, 1:30
Mike Brown def. Jeff [...]
Jens Pulver (145) vs. Urijah Faber (144.5)
WEC Featherweight Championship
Yoshiro Maeda (135) vs. Miguel Torres (135)
WEC Bantamweight Championship
Kenneth Alexander (155.5) vs. Rob McCullough (155.5)
Chuck Grigsby (204.5) vs. Mark Munoz (205.5)
Donald Cerrone (155.5) vs. Danny Castillo (155)
Mike Brown (145) vs. Jeff Curran (144.5)
Will Ribeiro (135) vs. Chase Beebe (136)
Jeremy Lang (183.5) vs. Tim McKenzie (184.5)
Luis Sapo [...]
MAIN CARD
Urijah Faber vs. Jens Pulver
WEC Featherweight Championship
Yoshiro Maeda vs. Miguel Torres
WEC Bantamweight Championship
Chuck Grigsby vs. Mark Munoz
Kenneth Alexander vs. Rob McCullough
PRELIMINARY BOUTS
Richard Crunkilton Jr. vs. Donald Cerrone
Jeff Curran vs. Mike Brown
Chase Beebe vs. Will Ribeiro
Tim McKenzie vs. Eric Schambari
Alex Serdyukov vs. Luis Sapo
Jose Aldo vs. Alexandre Nogueira
Charlie Valencia vs. Dominick Cruz
From WEC.tv:
A knee injury suffered during training camp has forced top bantamweight contender Manny Tapia to withdraw from his June 1st title bout against WEC 135-pound champion Miguel Torres. There is no word as of yet as to how long Tapia will be sidelined, and a suitable replacement opponent for the newly crowned Torres will [...]

