DREAM.4 MW GP Second Round Fights

[Rictor]

DREAM 4 - Middle Weight Grand Prix Round 2

Kazushi Sakuraba vs Melvin Manhoef

Ronaldo Jacare vs Jason "Mayhem" Miller

Dong Sik Yoon vs Gegard Mousasi

Zelg "Benkei" Galesik vs Kin Taiei

Confirmation will be up on the official site tomorrow or the next day.

Props to MMA.Revolution

[Grant Ellis]

Sakuraba will be declared dead after the fight :(

[Kenshin]

Somehow i wasn't much impressed with the first round but the final 8 looks very good to me. Seems to become a entertaining event for sure.

[Jmend255]

Awesome matchups!
:)

DREAM.4 with KID in it and DREAM.5 both look great!

[heckyl]

Sakuraba will live or die by the takedown here. he doesnt get it down ASAP he will be lit the fuck up.

[likma]

Looks great. Final four will be awesome too. I expect Manhoef (agree with Grant's prediction here), Jacare, Yoon Dong Sik and Zelg in semi finals. Should be lots of fun.

[chorb]

re: "Sakuraba will be declared dead after the fight"

for real. is dream trying kill him. or is it a saku kamikaze mission?
if he pulls this one off, though...
may the spirit of chute boxe be with you saku.

[dragomort]

Anyone care to call a different controversy surrounding this Saku fight? Knee to the head on the ground leading to DQ of Manhoef/ Pausing the fight in the middle of a flurry by Melvin for 3 minutes while they check Saku's gloves are both options noone is choosing, with everyone going for the favorite 'Saku dying' option.

[machsaku]

Anyone care to call a different controversy surrounding this Saku fight?

Melvin knocks Saku's head into the 3rd row and is DQ'd for not playing nice.:)

[heckyl]

Melvin by gogoplata. He's going to psyche everyone out.

[FieldingMellish]

If true, Sakuraba-Manhoef is one of the most disgusting pieces of mathcmaking I've ever seen.

That said, those fights don't seem to make much sense from DREAM's perspective so I'll wait for more official confirmation.

[Souder]

Melvin gets DQ in the first round for throwing the first punch at Saku. Honestly what is dream thinking with this match up? I'm not very happy. I can see they really care about his health and well being. If he ever does retire I see them still forcing him to fight. Hopefully when they announce the official match up they change up the match ups for this card.

[( o Y o )]

If true, Sakuraba-Manhoef is one of the most disgusting pieces of mathcmaking I've ever seen.

That said, those fights don't seem to make much sense from DREAM's perspective so I'll wait for more official confirmation.


They make no sense, but MMA.Revolution is well connected....very well.

And I can't believe Saku didn't chose his opponent himself.

Or, that Saku is already "out" and this is thrown up just to get ticket sales going until he sufferes a "training injury"

[ilostmydog]

Maybe they did the fan voting and Tamura just got replaced by Melvin? Regardless, my hopes that Sak will somehow survive to Dongbar Melvin are slim.

[mdhan]

I'm a little surprised that they decided to match up Miller with Jacare. Both are very marketable fighters to build around IMO... Sucks that one of them will be eliminated in the second round.

[Lord Gaul]

Man I am 50/50 on this fight. I can picture Melvin going to town on him and blowing Sakaraba out in the first 2 minutes, but it only has to go to the ground once for Sakuraba to win it.

I can see Miller catching Jacre. He is a super athlete though. This is the fight I am looking forward to most on the card. It will tell me how ligit the BJJ master is.

[machsaku]

Man I am 50/50 on this fight. I can picture Melvin going to town on him and blowing Sakaraba out in the first 2 minutes, but it only has to go to the ground once for Sakuraba to win it.

I can see Miller catching Jacre. He is a super athlete though. This is the fight I am looking forward to most on the card. It will tell me how ligit the BJJ master is.


+1

totally agree

[migs]

Wow I used to like Sak's courage but after Silva 3 it was just stupid and pointless having him publicly mutilated all the time. I don't need to see that fight. Sick.

I'll take Miller, Dong, and Zelg too. I'd like to see Dong Sik meet some success in this tourney.

[Shooto Panama]

Well, they need ratings badly so probably Sakuraba passing away on National TV could finally give FEG the 20.5% they are looking for.

[tinobar]

DREAM 4 - Middle Weight Grand Prix Round 2

Kazushi Sakuraba vs Melvin Manhoef

Ronaldo Jacare vs Jason "Mayhem" Miller

Dong Sik Yoon vs Gegard Mousasi

Zelg "Benkei" Galesik vs Kin Taiei

Confirmation will be up on the official site tomorrow or the next day.

Props to MMA.Revolution
how pride

sakakiraba must be pulling the strings behind the scenes

[tinobar]

http://www.dreamofficial.com/

[MZN]

I think Saku could actually win. Melvin has developed a sprawl and a takedown of his own but takedown defence from the clinch is lacking a bit. On the other hand it is also quite possible that Melvin blasts himself a way through this fight though...

I do think as well that Mousasi is going to defeat Dong, I think by gnp..

[maggotron]

I want to see Kin vs Manhoef. That would be a good match!