Dream 17
| Dream 17 | ||||
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 The poster for Dream 17 | ||||
| Promotion | Dream | |||
| Date | September 24, 2011 | |||
| Venue | Saitama Super Arena | |||
| City |  Saitama, Japan | |||
| Attendance | 13,200 | |||
| Event chronology | ||||
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Dream 17 was a mixed martial arts event held by Fighting and Entertainment Group's mixed martial arts promotion Dream. The event took place on September 24, 2011 at the Saitama Super Arena in Saitama, Japan.[1]
Background
[edit]Contrary to previous events, Dream used the card to launch a new rule change: the use of three, five-minute rounds.[2]
This event featured the opening round in Dream's World Bantamweight Grand Prix.[3]
Results
[edit]| Main card | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weight class | Method | Round | Time | Notes | |||
| Open-weight | Ikuhisa Minowa | def | Baru Harn | submission (scarf hold arm-lock and neck crank) | 1 | 4:39 | |
| Bantamweight Tournament Quarterfinal | Rodolfo Marques | def | Yusup Saadulaev | unanimous decision | 3 | 5:00 | |
| Bantamweight Tournament Quarterfinal | Masakazu Imanari | def | Abel Cullum | submission (armbar) | 3 | 0:46 | |
| Bantamweight Tournament Quarterfinal | Bibiano Fernandes | def | Takafumi Otsuka | technical submission (rear naked choke) | 1 | 0:41 | |
| Bantamweight Tournament Quarterfinal | Antonio Banuelos | def | Hideo Tokoro | split decision | 3 | 5:00 | |
| Middleweight | Gerald Harris | def | Kazuhiro Nakamura | split decision | 3 | 5:00 | |
| Lightweight | Satoru Kitaoka | def | Willamy Freire | split decision | 3 | 5:00 | |
| Welterweight | Yan Cabral | def | Kazushi Sakuraba | submission (arm triangle choke) | 2 | 2:42 | |
| Featherweight | Takeshi Inoue | def | Caol Uno | KO (head kick) | 1 | 4:17 | |
| Featherweight | Tatsuya Kawajiri | def | Joachim Hansen | submission (arm triangle choke) | 3 | 2:30 | |
| Lightweight | Shinya Aoki | def | Rob McCullough | submission (neck crank) | 1 | 4:57 | |
World Bantamweight Grand Prix 2011 Bracket
[edit]| Quarterfinals (DREAM 17) | Semifinals (Fight For Japan: Genki Desu Ka Omisoka 2011) | Final (Fight For Japan: Genki Desu Ka Omisoka 2011) | ||||||||
| Masakazu Imanari | W | |||||||||
 Abel Cullum | SUB | |||||||||
| Hideo Tokoro | DEC | |||||||||
| Antonio Banuelos | W | |||||||||
 Bibiano Fernandes | W | |||||||||
| Takafumi Otsuka | SUB | |||||||||
 Yusup Saadulaev | DEC | |||||||||
| Rodolfo Marques | W | |||||||||
References
[edit]- ^ "DREAM.17". DREAMOfficial.com. Retrieved 2011-08-04.
- ^ "DREAM.17 official for September; organization to use three five-minute rounds". MMAJunkie.com. 2011-07-27. Archived from the original on 2011-09-24.
- ^ "Nova Uniao Bantamweight Marques to Join Dream Grand Prix". Sherdog.com. 2011-07-27.