1st!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YAAAAAAAAAAAAAA party

What I saw of the event, looked good! The famous Japanease announcer with the mohawk and the
shinny suite from PRIDE is back to announce the DREAM bouts.

Also:
DREAM MIDDLEWEIGHT TOURNAMENT, april 26. participants:
Kazushi Sakuraba,
Yoshihiro Akiyama,
Masakatsu Funaki,
Dong-Sik Yoon,
Taiei Kin,
Shungo Oyama,
Ikuhisa Minowa.

Also Dennid Kang is rumored to take part in this tournament!

Cro Cop won his match. The beginning of the end, started when Cro Cop Clinched and started
connecting with knees, then Cro Cop ended the fight with punches. It was a quick fight, that dude
Mizuno was a tomato CAN!

[quote comment=”367047″]1st!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YAAAAAAAAAAAAAA party[/quote]
IM so Awsome, I just cant get over the fact that I’m FFIIRRSSTT!!!!!!!!!!! You all wish you could get first, well too bad. I’m the greatest!!!!!!!
On a more serious note were can I watch the MIRKO fight??

[quote comment=”367054″][quote comment=”367047″]1st!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YAAAAAAAAAAAAAA party[/quote]
IM so Awsome, I just cant get over the fact that I’m FFIIRRSSTT!!!!!!!!!!! You all wish you could get first, well too bad. I’m the greatest!!!!!!!
On a more serious note were can I watch the MIRKO fight??[/quote]

I just added it.

[quote comment=”367060″][quote comment=”367054″][quote comment=”367047″]1st!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YAAAAAAAAAAAAAA party[/quote]
IM so Awsome, I just cant get over the fact that I’m FFIIRRSSTT!!!!!!!!!!! You all wish you could get first, well too bad. I’m the greatest!!!!!!!
On a more serious note were can I watch the MIRKO fight??[/quote]

I just added it.[/quote]
cool

Mirko destroyed him, now lets see if he can do that to some top competition…

I scored 76 points on this card at… , ranked 46 out of 1114.
22 points alone on the alvarez fight.
I picked the correct fighter,type and rd on 5 fights and got all the fights correct except one.
Too bad about the main event though I was going for JZ to win the whole thing or hansen but…
Hansen all the way now, the rest of the way haha

wow cro cop is back home step in the ring he loock like he was home

Mirko in the clinch, i luv it.
The road to recovery, War Mirko!!!

There’s the Cro Cop we all know and love.

Will this ever be televised in the states? Damnit i watned to watch that bad!

That video kept cutting off for me before the guy even got in the ring. Whats the deal???

mmamania, whats the situation with the jz aoki fight, couldnt understand a word when i watched it, and they never gave aoki the win either so…….?

Yyaaaayyyy….Cro Cop could not do shit in the UFC sohe ran back to Japan with his tail between his legs and beat some jobber….Cro Cop is still a bum.

[quote comment=”367205″]mmamania, whats the situation with the jz aoki fight, couldnt understand a word when i watched it, and they never gave aoki the win either so…….?[/quote]

Where the hell did you get to watch the akoi vs. JZ fight?

mma-tv.net

uneed to sign up, but u dont get no spam so everything iscool, and it will redirect you to joesando.com dont wory its suppose to do that

dailymotion.com
search “dream” , sort by “most recent” i believe 90% of the fights are up right now, but some are already being taken down.

GO EDDIE ALVAREZ
PHILLY REPRESENT

[quote comment=”367085″]I scored 76 points on this card at… , ranked 46 out of 1114.
22 points alone on the alvarez fight.
I picked the correct fighter,type and rd on 5 fights and got all the fights correct except one.
Too bad about the main event though I was going for JZ to win the whole thing or hansen but…
Hansen all the way now, the rest of the way haha[/quote]
damn, i figured with those kinda picks u at least get in the top 20

[quote comment=”367217″]Yyaaaayyyy….Cro Cop could not do shit in the UFC sohe ran back to Japan with his tail between his legs and beat some jobber….Cro Cop is still a bum.[/quote]
mania, why do u let the trolls spill over from sherdog

[quote comment=”367139″]There’s the Cro Cop we all know and love.[/quote]

Yep beating overweight >LOSER that had no chance at all. Ah the good old CroChump returns. Ready to climb the ladder up the MMA world and get back to UFC eventually where he can ged as whupped again lol

CroChump was pathetic. His opponent usually takes on welterweights!! He was a paid sack of potatoes to drop on the floor. If Crochump returns to UFC his ass will get handed to him again!

Alvarez looked sick. That post-fight back flip was even sicker.

MrAngry is definitely a tool, but honestly Cro Cop did not look impressive.

He never fully connected with anything and Mizuno just dropped to the canvas from glancing blows and gave up.

[quote comment=”367354″]MrAngry is definitely a tool, but honestly Cro Cop did not look impressive.

He never fully connected with anything and Mizuno just dropped to the canvas from glancing blows and gave up.[/quote]

I agree, he needs to be in your face, to be the real cro cop.

I was expecting JZ’s boxing to be better since he is supposedly a “K-1 level” striker. His hands looked extremely slow and robotic. But I guess we learned that K-1 success doesn’t mean shit in MMA from Razor Rob.

IMO, BJ and Sherk would take out both thse guys pretty easy.

Everyone I thought was going to win won except JZ. Only problem is, I put ALL my money on JZ! He was clearly going to win if not for the questionable blows, and I don’t know why the hell the ref let Aoki get up right after JZ landed a freakin’ bomb of a punch. I don’t get why their fight was a no contest either. If it’s an illegal blow that makes it so you can’t continue, the guy who delivered the blow should lose. If it wasn’t illegal, then Aoki lost. All I know is, this sucks, and Calvancante is the favorite to win the whole thing. Kawajiri should be the hardest guy for him to beat.

[quote comment=”367352″]Alvarez looked sick. That post-fight back flip was even sicker.[/quote]

nice! who does he fight next? i hope its kawijiri

Dom, Razor Rob hasn’t had nay success?

Cro cop just didn’t look impressive in that fight as compared to his other fights in pride. The other dude looked a bit like Ron Waterman who just bent over and took it after feeling out Cro cop’s power.

Cro cop just doesn’t look as vicious and aggressive as he normally looks. Last time we saw that was when he won the Pride open GP.

Did anyone really expect for Crocop to kill the poor guy. At least he never raised his hands in victory only when the ref did it for him.

[quote comment=”367256″]dailymotion.com
search “dream” , sort by “most recent” i believe 90% of the fights are up right now, but some are already being taken down.

GO EDDIE ALVAREZ
PHILLY REPRESENT[/quote]

I am from philly but I dont like to show favoritism, but I have to unbiasedly admit that Eddie looked good.

Props to mania for providing us with the opportunity to view some of the fights without having to search all over the net for them!

Mania if you can get your hands on the Kawajiri fight, pLEASE post it.

Thanks

From what I saw so far, the 1st DREAM event seemed pretty good. I would have to say it was better than what I saw of World Victory Road and Yerranoka.

The quality of DReam 1st show, gives me hope that Pride may be making a comeback which would be great to see. This inagural event was better than PRIDE 1 as well as UFC 1 so there is hope.
The production looked great, just like Pride was. They even had the classic Pride announcer, the Pride rules and the 10 minute 1st round. I am excited to see the next couple of Dream events because I expect them to get better and better.

The middleweight fighters said to take part in the DREAM middleweight grand prix are a solid bunch featuring legendary Japanease fighters Sakuraba, Funaki. Akiyama, Kang, Minowa, Tamura and a few other tough fighters I forgot shold make this an exciting and prestigous middleweight tournament.

Also DREAM’s stable of fighters is going to get better and better. This morning I was watching Cro Cop vs. Mark hunt from shockwave and I pray that DReam gives us Cro Cop vs. Hunt part 3. The 1st fight took place in K-1 and Mirko won. The 2nd match was in Pride and it was an amazing match which Hunt eventually lost and cro cop B*tched! A 3rd fight would be really exciting and if Mirko is serious about getting his career back on track and eventually take another crack at the UFC heavyweight division then he is goingt o have to prove him self against tough guys like Hunt. If he keeps fighting Mizuno’s than he is going to start to look like Bisping instead of a guy that HW used to be scared to death of.

Question: Can anyone remember what fight it was that Gilbert Yvel KO the referee?

[quote comment=”367434″][quote comment=”367352″]Alvarez looked sick. That post-fight back flip was even sicker.[/quote]

nice! who does he fight next? i hope its kawijiri[/quote]

Kawajir vs. Alves would be really exciting and a very tough test for Alvarez. Beating Kawajiri would really put him on the map. Easier said than done cause Kawajiri is a beast.

[quote comment=”367369″]I was expecting JZ’s boxing to be better since he is supposedly a “K-1 level” striker. His hands looked extremely slow and robotic. But I guess we learned that K-1 success doesn’t mean shit in MMA from Raz

Alvarez fight was great, but I think the Hansen-Boku fight was just awesome.

Mirko looked impressive….but as “john” said, tomato can

Thanks for the fights mania, this card was great! PRIDE IS BACK YALL!!!

if going back to fighting a bunch of ham n’ eggers to get his confidence up is what needs to be done, then do it. This guy was an animal and can still be a factor. Sometimes, you head can ruin your body….Mirko’s head was not in it in the UFC and he disappointed alot of people, mainly himself i’m sure.

[quote comment=”367052″]What I saw of the event, looked good! The famous Japanease announcer with the mohawk and the
shinny suite from PRIDE is back to announce the DREAM bouts.

Also:
DREAM MIDDLEWEIGHT TOURNAMENT, april 26. participants:
Kazushi Sakuraba,
Yoshihiro Akiyama,
Masakatsu Funaki,
Dong-Sik Yoon,
Taiei Kin,
Shungo Oyama,
Ikuhisa Minowa.

Also Dennid Kang is rumored to take part in this tournament!

Cro Cop won his match. The beginning of the end, started when Cro Cop Clinched and started
connecting with knees, then Cro Cop ended the fight with punches. It was a quick fight, that dude
Mizuno was a tomato CAN![/quote]

WHAT? NO ARONA???

[quote comment=”367354″]MrAngry is definitely a tool, but honestly Cro Cop did not look impressive.

He never fully connected with anything and Mizuno just dropped to the canvas from glancing blows and gave up.[/quote]

If the truth makes you cry boy don’t be a fan of a CHUMP fighter ha ha ha

thnx for he post mmania. much better than READing the play-by play action.

[quote comment=”367369″]I was expecting JZ’s boxing to be better since he is supposedly a “K-1 level” striker. His hands looked extremely slow and robotic. But I guess we learned that K-1 success doesn’t mean shit in MMA from Razor Rob.

IMO, BJ and Sherk would take out both thse guys pretty easy.[/quote]

Aoki would submit Sherk 1st round or if sherk is lucky second round. Aoki vs BJ would be a good match doh or JZ vs BJ. Sherk is a good fighter but i dont see it possible for him to pull that take down do nothing and win vs someone like aoki who would submit his ass with the quickness.

BOOOO.that was weak a hell!!!!! well looks like Cro Cop took the Fedor route and will fight bums from now on.

Is it me or did Mirko Cro Cop look bigger in Dream than he ever did in the UFC?

That Alvarez-Amade fight was awesome.

“Is it me or did Mirko Cro Cop look bigger in Dream than he ever did in the UFC?”

yeah if thats the case that he just wants to be bigger he should have dropped to 205
he wiped the floor with that guy

Why is shinya ranked #3 hes not that great!!!!!!!!!!

Hansen is a beast!

Calvancante should have lost the fight. He could have broke Aoki’s neck. I would be pissed if I was Aoki.

Thanks Mania, that was awesome. Was worried I wouldn’t be able to catch those fights for a while now lol.

I dunno, the Cro Cop fight looked fixed to me… c|=’^

[quote comment=”367907″]Is it me or did Mirko Cro Cop look bigger in Dream than he ever did in the UFC?[/quote]

Mirko had a lot of time to train and not worry about top level competition, if he keeps fighting the lame ducks like he just did he can look like Jay Cutler! Truth be told, Mirko won’t impress anyone until he steps back into the Octagon and faces the best! Dream lived up to its name for Mirko: Just keep dreaming, it’s not a real fight!

this will be become another pride fc, its just change the organization name

okay please look at the Kultar “Black Mamba” Gill vs. Kawajiri fight… clearly the judges dont count punches to the head as points anymore… yeah sure Kawajiri took him down more but did nothing on the ground… watch the fight… he landed one punch last round… what did kultar have to do to win this fucking fight… kawajiri is a good fighter but Black Mamba should have won this fight i think…..

[quote comment=”367700″][quote comment=”367052″]What I saw of the event, looked good! The famous Japanease announcer with the mohawk and the
shinny suite from PRIDE is back to announce the DREAM bouts.

Also:
DREAM MIDDLEWEIGHT TOURNAMENT, april 26. participants:
Kazushi Sakuraba,
Yoshihiro Akiyama,
Masakatsu Funaki,
Dong-Sik Yoon,
Taiei Kin,
Shungo Oyama,
Ikuhisa Minowa.

Also Dennid Kang is rumored to take part in this tournament!

Cro Cop won his match. The beginning of the end, started when Cro Cop Clinched and started
connecting with knees, then Cro Cop ended the fight with punches. It was a quick fight, that dude
Mizuno was a tomato CAN![/quote]

WHAT? NO ARONA???[/quote]

No mention of Arona at all! Havent heard any news about Arona in a long time. But I for got too mention that Tamura is rumored to take part in the tournament. I dont know if Kazuo Misake will take place in the tournament. He signed a 2 fight deal with StrikeForce that will make him exclusive ot StrikeForce in the USA, but will allow him to compete in Japan, so maybe we will get to see Misake in t he tournament.

Man what does it take to stop a fight in this organization. Do they wait until their heads a bloody pulp on the mat just getting pounded on? what a joke! disgrace!

[quote comment=”367907″]Is it me or did Mirko Cro Cop look bigger in Dream than he ever did in the UFC?[/quote]

Maybe he’s on the juice again. Pure speculation though.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uon7ad61lTk

good highlight video of jz and aoki