The Yokohoma Arena is set to host the upcoming DREAM 11 event which includes the semi-finals and finals of the DREAM Featherweight Tournament and the Semi-Finals of the DREAM Super-Hulk Tournament as well as Joachim Hansen defending his DREAM Lightweight Championship against Shinya Aoki.
DREAM has a history of putting on great MMA shows and they are always hard to predict with their tournament fights especially with a number of considerations to take in about the fighters, their condition and injuries that come along the way, last time I predicted for a DREAM tournament was the finals of the DREAM Welterweight Tournament where I chose Hayato Sakurai & Andre Galvao and neither advanced to the finals, feel free to agree or disagree with my picks and give any feedback guys.
Feather Weight Grand Prix 2009 Reserve bout: Kazuyuki Miyata vs. Daiki Hata
Kazuyuki Miyata holds a 7-7 record and has faced some of the top names in the Lightweight Division today in Vitor Ribeiro, Kid Yamamoto & Joachim Hansen however has come up short in all of those bouts. The majority of his fights he has won via submission with five submissions, one knock out and one decision under his belt and is currently riding a two fight win streak with wins over Takeshi Yamazaki & Jae Hyuon So.
Daiki "DJ Taiki" Hata returns to DREAM with an 11-5-3 record and holds wins over Kenji Osawa, Yoshiro Maeda & Jameel Massouh with most of his fights ending in a decision or a knock out with five decisions, five knockouts and one submission to his name. At this point DJ Taiki has won four of his last five fights with his fight from DEEP 37 against Jong Man Kim being considered a draw.
DJ Taiki last competed at DREAM 8 in the opening round of the DREAM Featherweight Grand Prix and defeated Hideo Tokoro however due to injury he was unable to continue in the tournament so Hideo Tokoro has to take his place and now is competing in the Semi-Finals against Hiroyuki Takaya later on this card.
Kazuyuki Miyata needs to go for a submission early on in this fight if he is to win, he can't afford to stand and strike with DJ Taiki because Taiki has much better hands and will likely get a knock out victory if it stays standing. DJ Taiki has never been finished in a fight with all five of his losses coming via Decision so that's one thing to heavily consider, the way I see this one going would be for Daiki Hata to used his advantage on the feet and keep it there, he has decent enough take down defense to keep it on the feet and should collect a KO victory in the first round.
Featherweight Grand Prix Semi-Final Bout: Bibiano Fernandes vs. Joe Warren
Bibiano Fernandes holds a 5-2 record with his only losses coming to top names in Urijah Faber & Kid Yamamoto, to date he has two submission and three decision victories to his name and is one of the favorites to win the entire Featherweight Tournament. Fernandes is currently riding a four fight win streak with his last two in the DREAM Featherweight Tournament over Takafumi Otsuka & Masakazu Imanari.
Joe Warren holds a 2-0 record, he entered the Featherweight Tournament with no fights under his belt and was considered a major underdog however after victories over two favorites in Chase Beebe & Kid Yamamoto he now considered a favorite to capture the DREAM Featherweight Championship.
This fight all comes down to whether Fernandes can get the Greco-Roman wrestling gold medalist on his back and submit him, personally I think he will get him on his back and control the fight but I don't think that he will defeat him, Bibiano has a great Jiu Jitsu game which will be the difference when it goes to the ground. There are too many unanswered questions about Joe Warren for me to place my prediction with him at this point he is inexperienced in the world of Mixed Martial Arts and in my opinion will be picked apart by Fernandes who will claim himself a Decision victory however it will not come easy.
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