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DREAM vs. Sengoku Announced for Dynamite!! 2009 -- MMA FanHouse

The two top MMA promotions in Japan, which originally were to go head-to-head in separate events on New Year's Eve, will instead square off inside the ring on FEG's Dynamite!! 2009 card at the Saitama Super Arena, World Victory Road's Sengoku Raiden Championship and FEG's DREAM announced in a press conference Wednesday.

The current plan is to pit Sengoku fighters against DREAM fighters as well as combine Sengoku's scheduled main event, Hidehiko Yoshida vs. Satoshi Ishii, with Dynamite!!'s K-1 main event, Masato vs. Andy Souwer, as the evening's co-headliners.

Sengoku last week cited a scheduling conflict as the reason for pulling out of the Ariake Colosseum, but the reality was that Sengoku was forced to cancel its event after an investor backed out. Sengoku is said to be on life support by reports in Japan, but the company insists it will continue to promote events in 2010.

No additional fights were announced Wednesday, but a number of fighters at the conference suggested matchups: Yoshihiro "KISS" Nakao (Sengoku) asked for Mirko Cro Cop (DREAM), Eiji Mitsuoka (Sengoku) asked for a rematch with Joachim Hansen (DREAM), Hirota Mizuto (Sengoku) asked for Eddie Alvarez (DREAM), Akihiro Gono (Sengoku) and Hayato "Mach" Sakurai (DREAM) mentioned one another as a possible opponent, Sanae Kikuta (Sengoku) wanted Kiyoshi Tamura (DREAM) in a battle of Japanese icons, Hideo Tokoro (DREAM) asked for Norofumi "KID" Yamamoto (DREAM) and Kazushi Sakuraba (DREAM) jokingly also asked for featherweight Yamamoto.

Dynamite!! 2009 Fight Card:

K-1 MAX: Masato vs. Andy Souwer
Sengoku: Hidehiko Yoshida vs. Satoshi Ishii
K-1 Koshien Semifinals: Hiroya vs. Masaaki Noiri
K-1 Koshien Semifinals Shota Shimada vs. Katsuki Ishida
K-1 Koshien Reserve: Tsukasa Fuji vs. Tatuya Kusakabe
DREAM: Ikuhisa Minowa vs. Rameau Thierry Sokoudjou

[Fedorlei Gomipierre]

This is going to be THE show!

[KevoOnTheRadio]

Finally, something worth watching at 3 in the morning other then Family Guy reruns!

[Pasha K]

Nakao asking for Mirko?
This must be a joke, Mirko is in contract with UFC. And also I dont think it would be an interesting match.

[Y2JUBAE]

Originally Posted by Pashak

Nakao asking for Mirko?
This must be a joke, Mirko is in contract with UFC. And also I dont think it would be an interesting match.

I was thinking the same thing? Why promote a fighter from another organization?

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[Fedorlei Gomipierre]

I revised what matchups have been rumoured to be going down, but ideally, there's potential for any of these bouts to go down on NYE:

Shinya Aoki vs. Satoru Kitaoka
Tatsuya Kawajiri vs. Takanori Gomi
Alistair Overeem vs. Andrei Arlovski vs. Josh Barnett vs. Big Foot
Hidehiko Yoshida vs. Satoshi Ishii
Joachim Hansen vs. Maximo Blanco
Tim Sylvia vs. Hong Man Choi or Semmy Schilt
Eddie Alvarez vs. Mizuto Hirota
JZ Calvacante vs. Mitsuhiro Ishida
Melvin Manhoef vs. Mahmed Khalidov
Paulo Filho vs. Kazuo Misaki
Sergei Kharitonov vs. Blagoi Ivanov
Kazushi Sakuraba vs Ralek Gracie
Marius Zaromskis vs. Andrews Nakahara
Hayato Sakurai vs. Akihiro Gono
Kiyoshi Tamura vs. Sanae Kikuta
Alexandre Riberiro vs. Stanislav Nedkov
Masakatsu Funaki vs. Katsuyori Shibata
Ikuhisa Minowa vs. Sokoudjou
Jorge Santiago vs. Riki Fukuda
Zelg Galesic vs. Ninja Rua
Ryo Chonan vs. Dan Hornbuckle
Andre Galvao vs. Seichi Ikemoto
Bob Sapp vs. Travis Wiuff
Dave Herman vs. Kiss Nakao
Kazayuki Fujita vs. Mark Hunt
Kazunori Yokota vs. Jorge Masvidal
Katsunori Kikuna vs. Vitor Ribeiro
Antz Nansen vs. Kevin Randleman

[bobafett]

is this big time show going to be on ppv in the states,
or is it hd net , in other words how can we watch this
and what time eastern standard time?

[beau420]

Awww....I was looking forward to Sakuraba vs. Yamamoto

I noticed Ninja Rua is in the list, wonder if he will fight in Japan or if he is already under contract with Shine.

That card is just ridiculous. It is on track to being one of the best fight cards ever from any organization.

Very surprised to see Paulo Filho. Never heard why he didn't show for the last DREAM card. I heard rumors about his Visa and passport, but it sounds like BS to me. Hopefully they don't sign the fight before they get all the facts straight about why he didn't show.

Too many good fights in that list to talk about. A couple of fights look like gimme's but for the most part, whoah.

[willpunisher]

Originally Posted by Fedorlei Gomipierre

I revised what matchups have been rumoured to be going down, but ideally, there's potential for any of these bouts to go down on NYE:

Shinya Aoki vs. Satoru Kitaoka
Tatsuya Kawajiri vs. Takanori Gomi
Alistair Overeem vs. Andrei Arlovski vs. Josh Barnett vs. Big Foot
Hidehiko Yoshida vs. Satoshi Ishii
Joachim Hansen vs. Maximo Blanco
Tim Sylvia vs. Hong Man Choi or Semmy Schilt
Eddie Alvarez vs. Mizuto Hirota
JZ Calvacante vs. Mitsuhiro Ishida
Melvin Manhoef vs. Mahmed Khalidov
Paulo Filho vs. Kazuo Misaki
Sergei Kharitonov vs. Blagoi Ivanov
Kazushi Sakuraba vs Ralek Gracie
Marius Zaromskis vs. Andrews Nakahara
Hayato Sakurai vs. Akihiro Gono
Kiyoshi Tamura vs. Sanae Kikuta
Alexandre Riberiro vs. Stanislav Nedkov
Masakatsu Funaki vs. Katsuyori Shibata
Ikuhisa Minowa vs. Sokoudjou
Jorge Santiago vs. Riki Fukuda
Zelg Galesic vs. Ninja Rua
Ryo Chonan vs. Dan Hornbuckle
Andre Galvao vs. Seichi Ikemoto
Bob Sapp vs. Travis Wiuff
Dave Herman vs. Kiss Nakao
Kazayuki Fujita vs. Mark Hunt
Kazunori Yokota vs. Jorge Masvidal
Katsunori Kikuna vs. Vitor Ribeiro
Antz Nansen vs. Kevin Randleman

OMFG
that would be one HELL OF A FUCKING SHOW!

[optimusjoel]

Anyone know why Masato is fighting Andy instead of Gergion (sp). Unless there has been an injury I can't possibly understand why they would change it.