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DREAM Fight For Japan Card: Marius Zaromskis Vs. Hayato Sakurai Announced

A rematch is set in motion. Welterweights Marius Zaromskis and Hayato Sakurai are set to clash again at DREAM: Fight For Japan, the DREAM promotion announced. Bloody Elbow has the details:

Dream officials announced late last night that Dream welterweight champion Marius Zaromskis will be taking on Japanese legend Hayato "Mach" Sakurai at Dream: Japan GP Final on July 16th at the Ariake Coliseum in Tokyo. Strangely though, the title will not be on the line for the belt. This fight is a rematch of the 2009 Dream Welterweight Grand Prix semifinal, where Zaromskis won by head kick knockout.

The fight card for this event at the time of this writing is as follows:

The DREAM Fight For Japan: 2011 Bantamweight Japan Tournament Final card is as follows:

Gegard Mousasi vs. Hiroshi Izumi (for the DREAM Light Heavyweight title)
Hiroyuki Takaya vs. Kazuyuki Miyata (for the DREAM Featherweight title)
Masakazu Imanari vs. Hideo Tokoro (as part of the Bantamweight Japan Tourney Final)
Keisuke Fujiwara vs. Kenji Osawa (third place consolation fight for Bantamweight Japan Tourney Final)
Tatsuya Kawajiri vs. Willamy Freire
Todd Duffee vs. Nick Gaston
Eiji Mitsuoka vs. Bruno Carvalho
Marius Zaromskis vs. Hayato Sakurai

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