All fighters made weight for Saturday’s DREAM.16 in Nagoya, Japan, including the just-added pair of James Thompson and Yusuke Kawaguchi, who’ll open the show in a heavyweight contest.
Kawaguchi – the “megaton” champion of DEEP – stepped in at the eleventh hour after Thompson’s original opponent, Ikuhisa Minowa, was reassigned to a bout with 2008 Olympic judoka Satoshi Ishii.
Join us back here at BloodyElbow.com at 2 a.m. ET on Saturday for live results, play-by-play and discussion of the entire event.
Weigh-in results via MMAFighting:
DREAM Light-Heavyweight Grand Prix Final
Tatsuya Mizuno (92.5 kg/203.5 lb) vs. Gegard Mousasi (93 kg/204.6 lb)Jason “Mayhem” Miller (84 kg/184.8 lb) vs. Kazushi Sakuraba (83 kg/182.6 lb)
Shinya Aoki (69.7 kg/153.34 lb) vs. Marcus Aurelio (69.7 kg/153.34 lb)
Satoshi Ishii (107 kg/235.4 lb) vs. Ikuhisa Minowa (88 kg/193.6 lb)
Chase Beebe (64 kg/140.8 lb) vs. Hiroyuki Takaya (64 kg/140.8 lb)
Michihiro Omigawa (65 kg/143 lb) vs. Cole Escovedo (65 kg/143 lb)
Joachim Hansen (63 kg/138.6 lb) vs. Hideo Tokoro (63 kg/138.6 lb)
Kazuyuki Miyata (65 kg/143 lb) vs. “Lion” Takeshi Inoue (65 kg/143 lb)
“Wicky” Akiyo Nishiura (64.8 kg/142.56 lb) vs. Mitsuhiro Ishida (65 kg/143 lb)
Yusuke Kawaguchi (115 kg/253 lb) vs. James Thompson (132 kg/290.4 lb)