Saturday, September 24, 2011, DREAM Fight Championships will go live from the Saitama Super Arena in Saitama, Japan forDREAM 17 - Aoki vs. McCullough featuring a lightweight main-event pitting DREAM 155lbs champion Shinya Aoki (28-5-0) against former WEC lightweight champion "Razor" Rob McCullough (19-7-0). Also competing on the card is one-time Strikeforce lightweight title challenger Tatsuya Kawajiri in his debut at 145lbs as he battles PRIDE FC veteran Joachim Hansen; while legendary Japanese stars Caol Uno and Kazushi Sakuraba fight Takeshi Inoue and Yan Cabral respectively.
McCullough [34], once considered one of the premier 155 pounders in the sport has fallen on hard times in recent years when compared with the considerable success he enjoyed for so long. The Muay Thai specialist fighting out of Huntington Beach, California, lost his WEC title to Jamie Varner in February of 2008 - the first time "Razor had been stopped in 19 professional outings. Including that bout, McCullough has gone 4-4 over eight appearances, most recently losing to Team Nogueira standout Patricky Freire under the Bellator Fight Championships banner. Aoki on the other hand has stung together five consecutive wins - with exception given to an exhibition bout where Yuichiro "Jienotsu" Nagashima knocked the Tobikan Judan unconscious at 0:04 of the second round at Dynamite 2010. While his striking remains elementary at best, Aoki continues to be one of the best submission grapplers in the sport today and with creative clinch work he will succeed in bringing this fight where he's most comfortable, the mat, submitting McCullough in the second round to make it six straight.
Matchups:
Shinya Aoki vs. Rob McCullough
Tatsuya Kawajiri vs. Joachim Hansen
Caol Uno vs. Takeshi Inoue
Kazushi Sakuraba vs. Yan Cabral
Satoru Kitaoka vs. Willamy Freire
Kazuhiro Nakamura vs. Gerald Harris
Ikuhisa Minowa vs. Baru Harn
Dream Bantamweight World Grand Prix Quarterfinals
Hideo Tokoro vs. Antonio Banuelos
Bibiano Fernandes vs. Takafumi Otsuka
Masakazu Imanari vs. Abel Cullum
Yusup Saadulaev vs. Rodolfo Marques
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