Dream 8

DREAM.8: Welter Weight Grand Prix 2009 First Round was a mixed martial arts event promoted by Fighting and Entertainment Group's mixed martial arts promotion Dream on April 5, 2009. Unlike Dream's past tournaments, the Welter Weight Grand Prix is only scheduled to have eight participants. DREAM's welterweight division has a 76 kilograms (168 lb) weight limit.

Results

• Catchweight (88 kg) match

Ikuhisa Minowa vs. Katsuyori Shibata

Shibata defeated Minowa via unanimous decision.

• Middleweight match

Shungo Oyama^[1] vs. Andrews Nakahara

Nakahara defeated Oyama via TKO (punches) at 2:00 of Round 1.

• Lightweight match

Katsuhiko Nagata vs. Vitor Ribeiro

Ribeiro defeated Nagata via TKO (doctor stoppage) at 7:58 of Round 1.

• Catchweight (89kg) match

Murilo Rua vs. Riki Fukuda^[2]

Fukuda defeated Rua via unanimous decision.

• Heavyweight match

Sergei Kharitonov vs. Jeff Monson

Monson defeated Kharitonov via submission (north-south choke) at 1:42 of Round 1.

• Featherweight Grand Prix First Round Match

Hideo Tokoro vs. Daiki Hata

Hata defeated Tokoro via unanimous decision.

• Welterweight Grand Prix First Round Match

André Galvão vs. John Alessio

Galvao defeated Alessio via submission (armbar) at 7:34 of Round 1.

• Welterweight Grand Prix First Round Match

Marius Zaromskis vs. Seichi Ikemoto

Zaromskis defeated Ikemoto via unanimous decision.

• Welterweight Grand Prix First Round Match

Yuya Shirai vs. Jason High

High defeated Shirai via submission (rear naked choke) at 0:59 of Round 1.

• Welterweight Grand Prix First Round Match

Hayato Sakurai vs. Shinya Aoki^[3]

Sakurai defeated Aoki via KO (Knees & Punches) at 0:27 of Round 1.

Notes

• Nick Diaz was among the early rumored participants in Dream's Welterweight Grand Prix. However, his participation in April's Strikeforce event seems to have excluded him from Dream.8.
• Seichi Ikemoto defeated Hidetaka Monma at Deep 40 to qualify for the Welterweight Grand Prix.^[4]
• Yuya Shirai defeated Yoon Young Kim at clubDEEP Tokyo: Protect Cup Final to qualify for the Welterweight Grand Prix.^[5]
• One of the first announced bouts was a Middleweight fight between Andrews Nakahara and Zelg Galesic. However, after being admitted to a hospital in Croatia two weeks before DREAM.8, Zelg Galesic was not cleared to fight, and was replaced with Shungo Oyama.^[1]
• Another scrapped match was a Middleweight bout between debuting Murilo Rua and Dong Sik Yoon. Two days before DREAM.8 Dong Sik Yoon was pulled from the card due to an unknown injury.^[6] He was replaced a day before the event by Riki Fukuda.^[2] Fukuda couldn't make the Middleweight limit on such a short notice so the match was held at catchweight of 89kg.^[2]

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