MMAJunkie has reported this pair of fights as officially added to DREAM 12 on October 25, which will be the promotion's landmark premiere of the new white cage instead of the traditionally featured ring. Lethal striker Manhoef will enjoy facing a foe who prefers to fight standing up when he faces Zelg Galesic, a Croatian fighter with a Tae Kwon Do black belt and a 9-4 record.  Both fighters have lost to Dong Sik Yoon by way of the legendary "Dong-bar" (armbar), and share a bad habit for equaling out their phenomenal stand-up game with subpar ground skills.  This will be a striking war that will not go the distance. Paulo Filho will look to leave his single career loss against Chael Sonnen in the rear-view mirror and build upon his recent two-fight win streak.  Filho took a beating from Manhoef on the feet before finding a way to ground the powerful slugger and work his submission game, ending the fight in the first with an armbar at DREAM 10 in his first performance since the Sonnen atrocity.  Unfortunately, Filho looked sluggish and out of gas in Bitetti Combat against former TUF'er Alex Schoenauer, but managed to hold on for an uninspiring decision.  Don't be fooled by Dong Sik Yoon's 4-7 record.  His first four professional MMA fights were against Sakuraba, Takimoto, Rampage, and Bustamante (all losses), but he held fast and proved he belonged on the big stage with four straight victories over Manhoef, Galesic, Fabio Silva, and Shungo Oyama, the first three on the list finding themselves caught on the wrong end of the Dong-bar.  Dong Sik Yoon hit the skids again with three straight losses to current Strikeforce LHW champion Gegard Mousasi, Andrews Nakahara, and Jesse "JT Money" Taylor.  It's worth noting that he had the Dong-bar latched onto Mousasi, who executed an excellent escape, and his last loss to Taylor was by way of a knee injury during a Taylor takedown in the opening moments of the fight. DREAM 12 "Cage of the Rising Sun" Eddie Alvarez x Katsunori Kikuno Paulo Filho x Dong Sik Yoon Melvin Manhoef x Zelg Galesic Won Sik Park x Kuniyoshi Hironaka Yoshiro Maeda x Chase Beebe

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