DREAM.5

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DREAM.5: Light Weight Grandprix 2008 Final Round
Details
Promotion	DREAM
Date	July 21, 2008
Venue	Osaka-jo Hall
City	Osaka, Japan
Event chronology
DREAM.4: Middle Weight Grandprix 2008 2nd Round	DREAM.5: Light Weight Grandprix 2008 Final Round	DREAM.6: Middle Weight Grandprix 2008 Final Round

Dream.5 Light Weight Grandprix 2008 Final Round is an upcoming mixed martial arts event promoted by Fighting and Entertainment Group's mixed martial arts promotion DREAM. The event is scheduled to take place on July 21, 2008 and will host the final round of the promotion's Lightweight tournament. A welterweight match between Nick Diaz and Hayato "Mach" Sakurai to determine the Welterweight champion is also scheduled. The Lightweight Champion will be crowned at the closing of this event.

[edit] Fight Card and Rumored Participants

• Heavyweight Bout: Mirko "Crocop" Filipovic vs. Jérôme Le Banner ^[1]
• Welterweight Championship Bout: Nick Diaz vs. Hayato Sakurai ^[2]
• Featherweight Bout: Norifumi "KID" Yamamoto vs. Joseph Benavidez
• Middleweight Bout: Yoshihiro Akiyama vs. TBA^[3]
• Middleweight Bout: Denis Kang vs. TBA

Remaining Lightweight Grand Prix competitors:

• Eddie Alvarez
• Caol Uno
• Tatsuya Kawajiri
• Katsuhiko Nagata or Shinya Aoki

[edit] Notes

• The 8th matchup was initially to be postponed until DREAM.2 due to the injuries of Vitor Ribeiro and Caol Uno along with Gilbert Melendez's prior commitment to Strikeforce. DREAM officials decided to directly seed Caol Uno into the 2nd round against Mitsuhiro Ishida as the 8th fighter.

• The Lightweight Grandprix match between Shinya Aoki and Katsuhiko Nagata will take place at DREAM.4 due to the injuries Shinya Aoki incurred in his 1st round match with Gesias Calvancanti.

[edit] References

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