Shinya Aoki v. Mizuto Hirota Added To ‘Dynamite!! 2009’

The biggest Japanese MMA event of the year will have a lightweight showdown between the champions of the two biggest Japanese promotions. From MMA Junkie:

It is a very big fight in the Japanese MMA scene and it carries a lot of meaning beyond this single fight. Aoki is rumored to be coming to America to fight Gilbert Melendez as a part of Strikeforce’s next CBS event which will also feature Fedor and Dan Henderson. A loss for Aoki will likely drop him out of the top five in the weight class and take away some of the meaning of that fight as Gilbert attempts to prove that he is a top ten level talent.