"K-Taro" Keita Nakamura (15-3-2) won a dominate SD over Adriano Martins (9-4) in Saitama, north of Tokyo, Tuesday evening. Nakamura peppered Martins with jabs and straight lefts in the first round, reeling off a combo or two, while Martins searched wildly with an uppercut. "K-Taro" followed his jolting straights into the clinch at the the ropes and took Martin to the mat where Nakamura cut himself in an accidental headbutt of Martins's elbow...seriously. In the second round, Nakamura tagged Martins at will and followed a few jabs with a left hook. One judge called it for Martins, but the other two saw it correctly for "K-Taro". ...

DREAM added Fighters.com's fifth-ranked middleweight Yoshihiro Akiyama (11-1) Thursday to their event in Saitama, north of Tokyo, 23 September. The zainichi judoka has been given a choice between three unnamed opponents, according to Japanese website SportsNav. Akiyama returned from a seven-month layoff 21 July in Osaka to tap puroresu star Katsuyori Shibata (2-5). Also added Thursday, welterweight "Mach" Hayato Sakurai (32-8-2) will fight UFC vet Kuniyoshi Hironaka (12-5), not Nick Diaz (18-7) as originally planned. Sakurai tapped in a guillotine to Frenchman David Baron (16-2) in Tokyo 3 May, subsequently earning Baron a UFC contract. Hironaka followed his 1-3 stint in the Octagon with a TKO of Motoki Miyazawa (4-1) in his DREAM debut in Osaka. Former UFC welterweight "K-Taro" Keita Nakamura (14-3-2) will face Adriano Martins (9-3). Nakamura ended his three-fight UFC run with a split decision loss to Robert Emerson (8-6) in Las Vegas 2 February, going 0-3 in the Octagon. Brazilian Martins was kayoed by Roni Torres (13-1) in Amazonas in Brazil's Amazon rainforest 7 April. ...