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Promotion | Dream | |||
Date | September 24, 2011 | |||
Venue | Saitama Super Arena | |||
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Attendance | 13,200 | |||
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Dream 17 was a mixed martial arts event held by Fighting and Entertainment Group's mixed martial arts promotion Dream. The event took place on September 24, 2011 at the Saitama Super Arena in Saitama, Japan. [1]
Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) is a full-contact combat sport that allows striking and grappling, both standing and on the ground, using techniques from various combat sports and martial arts. The first documented use of the term mixed martial arts was in a review of UFC 1 by television critic Howard Rosenberg in 1993. The term gained popularity when newfullcontact.com, then one of the largest websites covering the sport, hosted and republished the article. The question of who actually coined the term is subject to debate.
Fighting and Entertainment Group (FEG) was the leading Japanese combat sport promoter founded on September 3, 2003. Its current president is Sadaharu Tanikawa and it is the parent company behind the now-defunct mixed martial arts series Dream and formerly, the largest kickboxing promotion in the world, K-1.
Dream was a Japanese mixed martial arts (MMA) organization promoted by former PRIDE FC executives and K-1 promoter Fighting and Entertainment Group. DREAM replaced FEG's previous-run mixed martial arts fight series, Hero's. The series retained many of the stylistic flourishes and personnel from Pride FC broadcasts, including fight introducer Lenne Hardt. In America, the promotion was aired on HDNet. They promoted over 20 shows highlighting some of the best Japanese and international MMA talent, establishing or enhancing the careers of top ranked fighters such as Shinya Aoki, Gesias Cavalcante, Tatsuya Kawajiri, Ronaldo Jacaré, Eddie Alvarez, Jason Miller, Kazushi Sakuraba, Gegard Mousasi and Alistair Overeem.
Contrary to previous events, Dream used the card to launch a new rule change: the use of three, five-minute rounds. [2]
This event featured the opening round in Dream's World Bantamweight Grand Prix. [3]
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Open-weight | Ikuhisa Minowa | def | Baru Harn | submission (scarf hold arm-lock and neck crank) | 1 | 4:39 | |
Bantamweight Tournament Quarterfinal | Rodolfo Marques | def | Yusup Saadulaev | unanimous decision | 3 | 5:00 | |
Bantamweight Tournament Quarterfinal | Masakazu Imanari | def | Abel Cullum | submission (armbar) | 3 | 0:46 | |
Bantamweight Tournament Quarterfinal | Bibiano Fernandes | def | Takafumi Otsuka | technical submission (rear naked choke) | 1 | 0:41 | |
Bantamweight Tournament Quarterfinal | Antonio Banuelos | def | Hideo Tokoro | split decision | 3 | 5:00 | |
Middleweight | Gerald Harris | def | Kazuhiro Nakamura | split decision | 3 | 5:00 | |
Lightweight | Satoru Kitaoka | def | Willamy Freire | split decision | 3 | 5:00 | |
Welterweight | Yan Cabral | def | Kazushi Sakuraba | submission (arm triangle choke) | 2 | 2:42 | |
Featherweight | Takeshi Inoue | def | Caol Uno | KO (head kick) | 1 | 4:17 | |
Featherweight | Tatsuya Kawajiri | def | Joachim Hansen | submission (arm triangle choke) | 3 | 2:30 | |
Lightweight | Shinya Aoki | def | Rob McCullough | submission (neck crank) | 1 | 4:57 |
Quarterfinals (DREAM 17) | Semifinals (Fight For Japan: Genki Desu Ka Omisoka 2011) | Final (Fight For Japan: Genki Desu Ka Omisoka 2011) | ||||||||
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