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.

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.

DREAM recently announced additions and changes to the fight card its October 25 DREAM 12 event, including Kazushi Sakuraba replacing Melvin Manhoef against Zelg Galesic and welterweight champ Marius Zaromskis’ return to action in a non-title bout against Myeon Ho Bae.

Read about the latest Japan fight bookings and news in MMAFrenzy.com’s Rising Sun Roundup…

In this weeks addition of MMAFrenzy.com’s Rising Sun Roundup, our weekly look at the MMA happenings in Japan, we take a look at Takanori Gomi’s “last fight in Japan” as well as the rest of the Vale Tudo Japan card. Also included is a look at the upcoming Sengoku 11 and Dream 12 fight card additions, and more.

DREAM has finalized the fight card for DREAM 6, which takes place on September 23rd at the Saitama Super Arena in Saitama, Japan and airs live in the US on HDNet.
The now-complete fight card features:

Winner of Manhoef-Mousasi vs. winner of Galesic-Souza
Middleweight Grand Prix Final
Melvin Manhoef vs. Gegard Mousasi
Middleweight Grand Prix Semifinal
Zelg Galesic vs. Ronaldo “Jacare” [...]

Melvin Manhoef def. Kazushi Sakuraba via TKO – Round 1
Middleweight Grand Prix Bout
Ronaldo Souza def. Jason Miller via unanimous decision
Middleweight Grand Prix Bout
Zelg Galesic def. Taiei Kin via TKO (injury) – Round 1, 1:05
Middleweight Grand Prix Bout
Gegard Mousasi def. Dong Sik Yoon via unanimous decision
Middleweight Grand Prix Bout
Hideo Tokoro def. Darren Uyenoyama via unanimous decision
Ralek [...]

MW (84kg/185lbs): Kazushi Sakuraba (83.6 kg) vs. Melvin Manhoef (84 kg)
MW (84kg/185lbs): Ronaldo “Jacare” Souza (83.9 kg) vs. Jason Miller (84 kg)
MW (84kg/185lbs): Taiei Kin (84 kg) vs. Zelg Galesic (83.8 kg)
MW (84kg/185lbs): Dong Sik Yoon (83.9 kg) vs. Gegard Mousasi (83.8 kg)
FW (67kg/145lbs): Hideo Tokoro (62.9 kg) vs. Darren Uyenoyama (62.6 kg)
HW (+93.1kg/+205lbs): Gadzhiev [...]

Wanderlei Silva, Rousimar Palhares, Goran Reljic, and Wilson Gouveia took home $75,000 bonuses for their efforts at UFC 84. Silva won “Knockout of the Night” for his 36-second KO win over Keith Jardine. Palhares was awarded “Submission of the Night” for his slick armbar win over veteran Ivan Salaverry. Reljic and Gouveia took home [...]

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, [...]