Dream: Genki Desu Ka!!, otherwise known as Dream: New Year's 2011 is set to take place this weekend at the Saitama Super Arena in Saitama, Japan.
The event will broadcast live in United States on HDNet and coverage will begin at 1:00 EST on Saturday, December 31st. Today the offical bout order was released:
Main Event (MMA)
Fedor Emelianenko defeats Satoshi Ishii via KO at 2:24 of 1st Round
Lightweight Title (MMA)
Shinya Aoki defeats Satoru Kitaoka via Unanimous Decision
Featherweight Title (MMA)
Hiroyuki Takaya defeats Takeshi Inoue via Unanimous Decision
Pro Wrestling Bouts
Kazushi Sakuraba & Katsuyori Shibata defeat Atsushi Sawada & Shinichi Suzukawa
Kazuyuki Fujita defeats Peter Aerts via Submission (Lion Tamer)
Jerome Le Banner defeats Tim Sylvia via TKO
Bantamweight Grand-Prix Finals
Bibiano Fernandes defeats Antonio Banuelos at 1:21 of 1st Round
Mixed-Rules Bout
Katsunori Kikuno defeats Yuichiro Nagashima via KO at 2:34 of 2nd Round
Pro Wrestling Bout
Josh Barnett pins Hideki Suzuki after a brain buster
Kickboxing Bouts
Yuta Kubo defeats Nils Widlund via KO
Masaaki Noiri defeats Kengo Sonoda via Unanimous Decision
MMA Bouts
Megumi Fujii defeats Karla Benitez via Submission (Kimura) at 1:15 of Round 1
Tatsuya Kawajiri defeats Kazuyuki Miyata via Submission (Arm Triangle) at 4:54 of Round 2
Hayato Sakurai defeats Ryo Chonan via Unanimous Decision
Bantamweight Grand-Prix Semi-Finals
Bibiano Fernandes defeats Rodolfo Marques Diniz via Unanimous Decision
Antonio Banuelos defeats Masakazu Imanaria via Split Decision
Yusup Saadulaev defeats Hideo Tokoro via KO at 0:42 of Round 1
He is coming off 3 loses prior to his fight and needs to get himself in the winning mentality. Love fedor and he fought great. Im sure he will step up in comp if any outside ufc are worth a challenge.
Apparently they had a prepared new-year's countdown to midnight that started a minute after Fedor's KO win...Wonder why they didn't delay the fight for 5 minutes so they could do the count-down to midnight without interruption? Because they knew how and when the fight was going to end?Seems like everything was timed and choreographed perfectly.
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