DREAM 17

[malcrk]

First card in almost a year, pretty good one too. Just to break up the monotony of the UFC: front page

Bantamweight Tournament Quarterfinal bout: Hideo Tokoro vs. Antonio Banuelos[1]
Bantamweight Tournament Quarterfinal bout: Bibiano Fernandes vs. Takafumi Otsuka[1]
Bantamweight Tournament Quarterfinal bout: Masakazu Imanari vs. Abel Cullum[1]
Bantamweight Tournament Quarterfinal bout: Rodolfo Marques vs. Yusup Saadulaev[1]
Featherweight bout: Tatsuya Kawajiri vs. Joachim Hansen[1]
Lightweight bout: Shinya Aoki vs. Rob McCullough[1]
Lightweight bout: Satoru Kitaoka vs. Willamy Freire[1]
Featherweight bout: Takeshi Inoue vs. Caol Uno[1]
Middleweight bout: Kazuhiro Nakamura vs. Gerald Harris[1]
Welterweight bout: Kazushi Sakuraba vs. Yan Cabral[1]

pardon the wikipedia 1s

[CPT]

They've had events since Dream 16, they just haven't been numbered. Fight for Japan and the Japan GP final.

This BW GP should be better, since its not only Japanese fighters.

Crusher vs. Hansen at FW is interesting. Hansen hasn't exactly been setting the world on fire at FW, but Kawajiri could be a guy to look out for in the division if he is able to transition well. I've always thought of him as a fairly big, powerful LW, but that's probably only in contrast to other Japanese fighters.

The rest of the fights seem like showcase fights for the Japanese fighters, though I like Gerald Harris to win his fight.

I wonder what the deal is for the broadcast of this one. The last few have been way late, and as results trickle out, I lose interest in sitting down for 5 hours to watch an event without any real must see fights.