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Originally Posted by Steelergar
DREAM 10 is live at 3:00 a.m, set your tivo if you have HD net. It replays again on friday at 10:00 p.m and saturday at 4:00 p.m. keep an eye on welterweight galvo he is a bjj phenomenon and trains with anderson silva and he is only 23 years old.
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Great card with great fights as always with Dream. Just finished watching them. I didn't think Paulo Filho would pull it off after getting rocked several times but it only takes one mistake by Manhoef and he exploits that mistake as good as anyone in the world. Sakurai vs Zarmoskis was an amazing fight too. A great stand-up brawl. TUF idiot Jesse Taylor got a win but not really when his opponent suffered a dislocated knee.
With the date now official for the second round of DREAM's open-weight "Super Hulk" tournament, the organization has now made the matchups official.
As was previously rumored, Hong Man Choi (2-2) meets Ikuhisa Minowa (42-30-8), while Gegard Mousasi (25-2-1) faces Rameau Thierry Sokoudjou (6-4) at DREAM.11 on Oct. 6 in Kanagawa, Japan.
DREAM officials made the matchups official during Monday's DREAM.10 broadcast on HDNet.
The "Techno Goliath" earned his way to the semifinals with a 77-second shellacking of former baseball star Jose Canseco at May's DREAM.9. The 7-foot-2 super-heavyweight will enjoy a significant size advantage over "Minowaman," though that didn't matter much in "The Punk's" first-round matchup.
Minowa needed just 75 seconds to submit the massive Bob Sapp in his first-round contest. The 13-year-veteran has made a career of taking on all comers, and the bout with Choi, who is nearly twice Minowa's weight, will certainly maintain the "freak show" feel made famous in Japan.
Mousasi, who will first face Renato "Babalu" Sobral at the Aug. 1 event "Affliction: Trilogy," made his way to the "Super Hulk" semifinals with a 79-second submission win over Mark Hunt. Mousasi is currently on an impressive 12-fight win streak.
Sokoudjou broke out of a recent slump and earned a first-round win over kickboxer Jan Nortje in May. The explosive win ended in controversial fashion when Sokoudjou delivered a few hotly contested blows that some deemed unnecessary. Sokoudjou later apologized for the blows.
DREAM.11 will also feature the semifinals and finals of DREAM's current featherweight grand prix.