Primer evento de DREAM - Cro Cop regresa a Japon

En dias pasados se llevo a cabo la conferencia de prensa para anunciar el primer evento de DREAM nueva empresa de MMA en Japon dirigida por gente que estuvo en DSE (PRIDE) y FEG (k-1). Este que sera el primer round del Grand Prix de peso ligero se llevara a cabo el 15 de marzo de este año en Saitama.

Las divisiones en DREAM son las siguientes:
Lightweight hasta 70kg-154lbs
Welterweight hasta 76kg-168lbs
Middleweight hasta 84kg-185lbs
Light Heavyweight hasta 93kg-205lbs
Heavyweight arriba de 93kg-205lbs

La primer pelea confirmada es:

Shinya Aoki vs JZ Calvan

Otros participantes de este torneo son:

Tatsuya Kawajiri
Mitsuhiro Ishida
Andre “Dida”
Caol Uno
Bukyung Jung
Kazuyuki Miyata
Joachim “Hellboy” Hansen
Artur Umakhanov
Gilbert “El Niño” Melendez
Luis “Buscape” Firmino
Koutetsu Boku

Por su parte Mirko “Cro Cop” hablo en esta conferencia de prensa:

“I’m happy to be back in Japan,” said the Croatian fightsport star, interspersing his speech with Japanese-language remarks to the delight of the 500 fans in attendance, most of whom raced to the press conference on just hours’ notice. “I didn’t like the cage very much, and now I’m looking forward to fighting here again. I feel that Japan is like my second home, this is where I want to fight!”

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“I left cause I couldn’t wait any more. I asked to fight as soon as possible, even on March 1st, but UFC offered me a fight in May or later. I wanted a rematch with Gonzaga in Zagreb, but after his loss to Werdum that option was off. I’m in shape, I have 105 kg and I want to fight. last two fights I was in some sort of mental blockade, before fights I was empty, depressed, full of self-hate.”