Dream.10: Welterweight Grand Prix 2009 Final Round July 20th, 2009 Saitama Super Arena, Saitama, Japan HDNet (3:00AM EST) Non-tournament bouts: 155 Lbs. Vitor Ribeiro vs. Shinya Aoki 155 Lbs. Andre Amade vs. Katsunori Kikuno 185 Lbs. Paulo Filho vs. Melvin Manhoef 185 Lbs. Dong Sik Yoon vs. Jesse Taylor Welterweight tournament bouts: Hayato Sakurai vs. Marius Zaromskis Jason High vs. Andre Galvao Seichi Ikemoto vs. Tarec Saffiedine (reserve bout) Winner of Sakurai/Zaromskis vs. Winner of High/Galvao Rumoured bout: 185 Lbs. Kazushi Sakuraba vs. TBA
Re: Dream.10: Welterweight Grand Prix 2009 Final Round (Jul. 20th) Jesse Taylor?!? really. hadn't seen that matchup yet.. good lord if he wins.. hell if he loses, is Japan safe from his drunken buffoonery?
Re: Dream.10: Welterweight Grand Prix 2009 Final Round (Jul. 20th) Five straight dubs for Taylor since losing to Dollaway at Fight Night. This card is light at the moment so I'm expecting one or two fights to be added before the event.
Re: Dream.10: Welterweight Grand Prix 2009 Final Round (Jul. 20th) Results: Marius Zaromskis def. Jason High via knockout (kick) - Round 1, 2:22 Shinya Aoki def. Vitor Ribeiro via unanimous decision Jesse Taylor def. Dong Sik Yoon via TKO (injury) - Round 1, 1:02 Paulo Filho def. Melvin Manhoef via submission (armbar) - Round 1, 2:36 Katsunori Kikuno def. Andre "Dida" Amade via TKO (punches) - Round 1, 3:47 Jason High def. Andre Galvao via split decision Marius Zaromskis def. Hayato "Mach" Sakurai via TKO (strikes) - Round 1, 4:03 Tarec Saffiedine def. Seichi Ikemoto via unanimous decision
Re: Dream.10: Welterweight Grand Prix 2009 Final Round (Jul. 20th) Marius Zaromskis was able to make a name for himself between Dream.8 and last night's Dream.10. Highlight reel knockouts of Jason High and Mach Sakurai are going to put this Lithuanian kid in demand.
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This was the first time I watched a Dream event and I was thoroughly impressed with it (other than the fact that fighting in a ring with ropes is pretty stupid).
Dream puts on a good show. It tends to drag a bit because they show all the fights and sometimes you get so you just want to see the big ones, but overall it's great MMA. Too bad it's on at such an unholy time.