Great news for mixed martial arts fans: Shinya Aoki has been added to next week's Dream.6 card.
The official Dream.6 web site has been updated to reflect a fight between Aoki, the submission specialist, and American Todd Moore, who recently left World Extreme Cagefighting. Aoki is an exciting fighter with a unique style, and adding him to the card makes Dream.6 -- in my opinion, anyway -- a must-see event.
Moore entered the WEC with a 9-0 record, but he lost both of his fights in WEC and is now 9-2, and he's a big underdog to Aoki, who is widely considered one of the Top 10 lightweights in the world and is No. 17 on my list of the Top 25 pound-for-pound fighters in MMA.
The full Dream.6 card, which includes the semfinals and finals of the Dream Middleweight Grand Prix and a couple of good heavyweight fights, is after the jump.
Middleweight Grand Prix: Ronaldo de Souza vs. Zelg Galesic
Middleweight Grand Prix: Gegard Mousasi vs. Melvin Manhoef
Middleweight GP Championship bout: Gegard Mousasi/Melvin Manhoef vs. Ronaldo de Souza/Zelg Galesic
Middleweight Grand Prix reserve bout: Yoon Dong-sik vs. Andrews Nakahara
Featherweights: Hideo Tokoro vs. Atsushi Yamamoto
Heavyweights: Mirko "Cro Cop" Filipovic vs. Alistair Overeem
Heavyweights: Sergei Kharitonov vs. Siala-Mou "Mighty Mo" Siligia
Middleweights: Ikuhisa Minowa vs. Masakatsu Funaki
Welterweights: Hayato Sakurai vs. Kuniyoshi Hironaka
Lightweights: Keita Nakamura vs. Adriano Martins
Middleweights: Yoshihiro Akiyama vs. Masanori Tonooka
Lightweights: Shinya Aoki vs. Todd Moore
The full Dream.6 card will be broadcast in the wee hours of Tuesday, September 23 on HDNet in the United States.
The official Dream.6 web site has been updated to reflect a fight between Aoki, the submission specialist, and American Todd Moore, who recently left World Extreme Cagefighting. Aoki is an exciting fighter with a unique style, and adding him to the card makes Dream.6 -- in my opinion, anyway -- a must-see event.
Moore entered the WEC with a 9-0 record, but he lost both of his fights in WEC and is now 9-2, and he's a big underdog to Aoki, who is widely considered one of the Top 10 lightweights in the world and is No. 17 on my list of the Top 25 pound-for-pound fighters in MMA.
The full Dream.6 card, which includes the semfinals and finals of the Dream Middleweight Grand Prix and a couple of good heavyweight fights, is after the jump.
Middleweight Grand Prix: Ronaldo de Souza vs. Zelg Galesic
Middleweight Grand Prix: Gegard Mousasi vs. Melvin Manhoef
Middleweight GP Championship bout: Gegard Mousasi/Melvin Manhoef vs. Ronaldo de Souza/Zelg Galesic
Middleweight Grand Prix reserve bout: Yoon Dong-sik vs. Andrews Nakahara
Featherweights: Hideo Tokoro vs. Atsushi Yamamoto
Heavyweights: Mirko "Cro Cop" Filipovic vs. Alistair Overeem
Heavyweights: Sergei Kharitonov vs. Siala-Mou "Mighty Mo" Siligia
Middleweights: Ikuhisa Minowa vs. Masakatsu Funaki
Welterweights: Hayato Sakurai vs. Kuniyoshi Hironaka
Lightweights: Keita Nakamura vs. Adriano Martins
Middleweights: Yoshihiro Akiyama vs. Masanori Tonooka
Lightweights: Shinya Aoki vs. Todd Moore
The full Dream.6 card will be broadcast in the wee hours of Tuesday, September 23 on HDNet in the United States.