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Dream.7: Feather Weight Grandprix 2009 1st Round 
Information Promotion Dream Date March 8, 2009 Venue Saitama Super Arena City Saitama, Japan Attendance 19,528[1] Event chronology Dream.6: Middle Weight Grandprix Final Round Dream.7: Feather Weight Grandprix 2009 1st Round Dream.8: Welter Weight Grandprix 2009 1st Round Dream.7: Feather Weight Grandprix 2009 1st Round was a mixed martial arts event promoted by Fighting and Entertainment Group's (FEG) mixed martial arts promotion Dream on March 8, 2009. This event featured six of the opening round fights of the tournament which is contested at a 63 kg (139 lb) weight limit.
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Event
The event consisted of nine mixed martial arts bout, all contested under Dream's MMA rules. Six of the bouts were part of Dream's 2009 Featherweight Grand Prix, with the remaining bout of the tournament's opening round (DJ Taiki's fight with Hideo Tokoro) taking place at Dream.8 due to DJ Taiki being injured.[2] Norifumi "Kid" Yamamoto who is also participating in the tournament was given a first-round bye by FEG so he could recover from an ankle injury he received in 2008.[3].
Results
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- Featherweight Grandprix 1st round match
Takafumi Otsuka vs. 
Bibiano Fernandes- Fernandes defeated Otsuka via unanimous decision.
- Featherweight Grandprix 1st round match
Chase Beebe vs. Joe Warren- Warren defeated Beebe via TKO (doctor stoppage) at the end of the first round. The stoppage was due to a cut Beebe received over his left eye.[4]
- Featherweight Grandprix 1st round match
- Akiyo Nishiura vs. Abel Cullum
- Cullum defeated Nishiura via unanimous decision.
- Lightweight match
- Mitsuhiro Ishida vs. Daisuke Nakamura
- Ishida defeated Nakamura via unanimous decision.
- Welterweight match
- Shinya Aoki vs. David Gardner
- Aoki defeated Gardner via submission (rear naked choke/ Hello Japan) at 5:58 of round 1.
- Lightweight match
- Tatsuya Kawajiri vs. Ross Ebanez
- Kawajiri defeated Ebanez via submission (rear naked choke) at 4:03 of round 1.
- Featherweight Grandprix 1st round match
- Yoshiro Maeda vs. Micah Miller
- Maeda defeated Miller via unanimous decision.
- Featherweight Grandprix 1st round match
- Hiroyuki Takaya vs.
Jong Won Kim - Takaya defeated Kim via TKO (punches) at 0:40 of round 2.
- Featherweight Grandprix 1st round match
- Masakazu Imanari vs. Atsushi Yamamoto
- Imanari defeated Yamamoto via split decision.
References
- ^ DiPietro, Monty (2009-03-08). "HELLO JAPAN! SHINYA AOKI WINS AT DREAM 7". MMAWeekly.com. http://www.mmaweekly.com/absolutenm/templates/dailynews.asp?articleid=8342&zoneid=13. Retrieved 2009-03-10.
- ^ "Dream 7 – Featherweight Grand Prix Match-Ups". Japan-MMA.com. February 19, 2009. http://www.japan-mma.com/2009/02/38-dream-7-featherweight-gp-match-ups.html. Retrieved March 8, 2009.
- ^ "Dream 7 to feature Featherweight Grand Prix; Yamamoto offered first-round bye". Mmamania.com. http://mmamania.com/2009/01/25/dream-7-to-feature-featherweight-grand-prix-yamamoto-offered-first-round-bye/#more-10689. Retrieved March 8, 2009.
- ^ "Dream 7 Play-by-Play". Sherdog.com. March 8, 2009. http://sherdog.com/news/news/dream-7-play-by-play-16463. Retrieved March 8, 2009.
External links
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