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
Main Card:
Donald Cerrone vs. Ben Henderson (Interim LW Title)
Dave Jansen vs. Richard Crunkilton Jr
Rafael Assuncao vs. Yves Jabouin
Will Campuzano vs. Damacio Page
Preliminary Card:
Deividas Taurosevicius vs. Javier Vazquez
Charlie Valencia vs. Coty Wheeler
Manny Tapia vs. Eddie Wineland
Wagnney Fabiano vs. Erik Koch
Scott Jorgensen vs. Noah Thomas
Muhsin Corbbrey vs. Anthony Njokuani
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MMAJunkie has confirmed two fights that were previously rumored to fill out the November 7 Strikeforce "Fedor vs. Rogers" event: Gegard Mousasi versus Rameau Thierry Sokoudjou and Fabricio Werdum versus Antonio "Bigfoot" Silva.
Mousasi and Sokoudjou will resume their originally scheduled meeting that was nixed for DREAM's "Super Hulk" open weight tournament that Mousasi was forced to withdraw from due to an injury sustained in his exhibition match with Fedor Emelianenko. Bob Sapp took Mousasi's place in DREAM and was predictably put on his back and pounded into submission in quick fashion by Sokoudjou. This will represent Mousasi's first light-heavyweight title defense after he gave the Sokoudjou/Sapp treatment to Renato "Babalu" Sobral to snare the Strikeforce belt.
Antonio Silva will make his stateside return after testing hot for anabolic steroids preceding his win over Justin Eilers to win the EliteXC heavyweight championship and setting up shop in Sengoku, where he defeated Yoshihiro Nakao and "Big" Jim York. Silva aroused the ire of the California State Athletic Commission by flying out of jurisdiction of their suspension to compete in Japan, and recently his suspended expired and opened up the opportunity for him to fight in America. Bigfoot was also rumored to be facing Josh Barnett for the Sengoku heavyweight title.
The acquisition of Silva is an advantageous one considering Strikeforce's recent signing of the world's #1 heavyweight, Fedor Emelianenko, and the notable invisibility of the current Strikeforce heavyweight champion, Alistair Overeem. The only viable opponents for Emelianenko at the time of his signing were Overeem, Rogers, and Werdum, and now another top-level heavyweight outside of the UFC will join the mix and liven up the race for the belt.
Current card:
Fedor Emelianenko x Brett Rogers
Jason Miller x Jake Shields
Fabricio Werdum x Antonio Silva
Gegard Mousasi x Rameau Thierry Sokoudjou
Brett "The Grim" Rogers discusses his upcoming bout with Fedor Emelianenko on Strikeforce's "Fedor Vs. Rogers" event on November 7, and restates his all-business opinion that he'll be stepping into the cage with just another fighter he intends to destroy.
Tito Ortiz will be welcomed back to the UFC by his old friend, Forrest Griffin, who will take the injured Mark Coleman's place at UFC 106 on the "Lesnar Vs. Carwin" card.
It was back at UFC 59 that we first saw the young, inexperienced, and potentially protected Forrest Griffin shed his Ultimate Fighter blanket and take a huge leap in competition by facing the formerly dominant light-heavyweight champion Ortiz. Although many predicted a crippling defeat, certain doom, and even death for Forrest, the rising star showed the first signs of his tenacious resilience and ability to compete with the elite by giving Ortiz all he could handle in a closely measured split-decision.
The fight began in typical Ortiz fashion with a quick takedown and brutal elbows from inside Forrest's guard for most of the first round. Forrest not only survived the onslaught, but mounted a spirited striking attack in the remaining rounds that visibly frustrated Ortiz by reducing him to telegraphed takedowns from too far outside and begrudgingly engage in a stand-up fight. Even as an Ortiz fan, I clearly remember pining for the logic of a draw to be considered as a sensible outcome of the contest.
"The Huntington Beach Bad Boy", who has taken a year and a half hiatus from the UFC in a highly publicized fued with Dana White, will be returning in allegedly improved condition after a spinal-fusion surgery to address years of nagging pain that he often cited as effectual cause for performance issues. He will also be making his grand re-entrance against a fighter that has vaulted into top light-heavyweight status after upsetting Shogun Rua and Quinton "Rampage" Jackson to attain the LHW belt in Tito's absence, and despite two extremely discouraging losses to Rashad Evans and Anderson Silva, Forrest Griffin will represent a more confident and mature threat, and an entirely different fighter than he first faced.
Tito Ortiz was Forrest Griffin's first pivotal fight of his career, and now over three years later, both fighters have a lot at stake and will risk a plummet in popularity with a loss at this stage of their careers.
Submission aficionado Satoru Kitaoka will return to action against scrappy ATT lightweight Jorge "Gamebred" Masvidal for Sengoku 11 on November 7th.
Kitaoka gained serious notoriety after stepping up from Pancrase and signing with Sengoku, where he reeled off five straight wins, four of which were first round submissions, to become their lightweight champion. Prominent names on his list of victims in Sengoku are former lightweight king Takanori Gomi, Eiji Mitsuoka, and Clay French. Kitaoka finally fell prey to Shooto standout Mizuto Hirota at Sengoku Ninth Battle, losing the belt and snapping his 6-fight streak.
Jorge Masvidal returns to the Sengoku ring after a stint in Bellator's lightweight tournament, where it seemed he was destined for a clash in the finals with fellow lightweight standout Eddie Alvarez, but instead Masvidal found himself on the wrong end of one of the most amazing submissions of 2009 when Toby Imada locked on an acrobatic inverted triangle to knock Masvidal out of the brackets and steal his spot in the finals versus Alvarez. Tapology was the first to break the story on this match-up.
Also on Sengoku 11, Kevin Randleman will return from a disappointing and lackluster loss to Mike Whitehead in Strikeforce versus undefeated Stanislav Nedkov according to MMAJunkie. MMA veteran Randleman has slipped from the spotlight since Pride was sold, competing only twice since his loss to Shogun Rua in 2006. Nedkov is 7-0 and just TKO'd Travis Wiuff at Sengoku 8.