DREAM.1 Lights Up

The DREAM.1 Lightweight Grand Prix now has four fights, but the main event continues to be the first round match-up between “JZ” Gesias Calvancanti and the “Tobikan Judan” Shinya Aoki.

Canadian “Black Mamba” Kultar Gill will post his 9-6 record versus Japanese “Crusher” Tatsuya Kawajiri, 20-4-2.

Kawajiri’s record includes a DQ “W” over fellow Grand Prix competitor Joachim Hansen.  “Black Mamba” broke a three-loss skid in K-1 and Bodog with a first round TKO of Hideo Tokoro in K-1 Hero’s Middleweight Tournament in his last fight.

Kazuyuki Miyata, 5-6, emerges from a rear naked choke loss to Hansen on K-1’s New Year’s Eve card to face-off with “Buscape” Luiz Firmino, 11-3.

Firmino’s record lists a 2005 unanimous decision loss to Kawajiri in PRIDE Bushido.

“Hellboy” Joachim Hansen of Norway locks horns versus Norifumi Yamamoto’s Krazy Bee trainee Kotetsu Boku.

Hansen holds the distinction of being the first MMA fighter submitted in a gogoplata performed by Aoki in PRIDE.  Boku’s 13-4-1 record includes victories over former UFC lightweight contender Hermes Franca and Eiji Mitsuoka, who was the last fighter to douse out ”Hellboy”.