DREAM, a japanese promotion that is the spiritual reincarnation of PRIDE, started their middleweight Grand Prix for 2008, aptly named DREAM 2. Some of the notables in the field are Aoki, Calvancante, Ronaldo Souza, Denis Kang, and Sakuraba. With a stout field in play, not all the favorites made it out of the first round. (Spoilers Inside)

DREAM 2 will air on HDNET May 3rd at 10:30 PM (Saturday) but if you can't wait until then, here are the quick results:

Shinya Aoki defeats Gesias Calvancante via unanimous decision
Taiei Kin defeats Ikuhisa Minowa via unanimous decision
Dong Sik Yoon defeats Shungo Oyama via unanimous decision
Zelg Galesic defeats Magomed Sultanakhmedov via submission (armbar) in round one
Ronaldo “Jacare” Souza defeats Ian Murphy via submission (rear naked choke) in round one
Kiyoshi Tamura defeats Masakatsu Funaki via technical knockout (strikes) in round one
Gegard Mousasi defeats Denis Kang via submission (triangle choke) in round one
Kazushi Sakuraba defeats Andrews Nakahara via submission (neck crank) in round one

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