Dream 2

with two weeks to Dream 2, a look at the possible card, couretsy of nightmare of battle....


OLYMPIA DREAM.2 Middleweight GP 2008 1st Round
Date: April 29th, 2008
Place: Saitama Super Arena in Saitama, Japan

Middleweight GP 1st Round:
Kazushi Sakuraba vs. Andrews Nakahara
Kiyoshi Tamura vs. Masakatsu Funaki
Denis Kang vs. Gegard Mousasi

My Analysis: Saku against some MMA noob is clown shoes booking at it's finest, Is this what it has come to with Sakuraba? Tamura vs Funaki.....let's hope someone doesn't break a hip in this match-up of Japan's mma geritol set. Kang vs Mousasi should be a great fight....Kang is looking to get back on track after a KO loss to Akiyama, but his chin will be put to the test again with heavy hitting Mousasi. Kang needs to avoid the chin-checks and get this to the floor ASAP.



Lightweight GP 1st Round:
Shinya Aoki vs. J.Z. Calvan

Middleweight GP Participants:
Yoon Dong Sik
Yoshihiro Akiyama
Shungo Oyama
Kin Taiei
Minowaman

Possible GP Participants:
Dae Won Kim
Mamed Khalidov
Daniel Acacio
Ronaldo “Jacare” Souza

My Analysis: If the usual trends continue.... they will hopelessly overmatch Yoon, probably throwing him in with BJJ phenom Souza. Minowa is usually booked in fights against freakshows (Butterbean, Zulu, that fatass at the last Dream) or fights where he will get massacred (Rampage, CroCop anyone?) so i see them either matching him up for a beating with Akiyama but more than likely they will find some way to have Bobby Ologun or Bernard Ackah to make 185.

Possible Participants:
Marcelo Garcia
Vitor “Shaolin” Ribeiro (either this card or the May card)

while i'm at it....
HEIWA DREAM.3 Lightweight GP 2008 2nd Round
Date: May 11th, 2008
Place: Saitama Super Arena in Saitama, Japan

Lightweight GP 2nd Round:
Tatsuya Kawajiri vs. Luis Buscape
Joachim Hansen vs. Eddie Alvarez
Mitsuhiro Ishida vs. Caol Uno
Katsuhiko Nagata vs. Aoki/Calvan

Possible Participants:
Melvin Manhoef
Vitor "Shaolin" Ribeiro