DREAM 17: World Bantamweight Grand Prix Live Results and Commentary

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Join us here at BloodyElbow.com on Saturday, September 24 at 3 AM ET for live results and commentary of DREAM 17: World Bantamweight Grand Prix, airing LIVE on HDNet from Saitama Super Arena in Saitama, Japan. Interact with the BloodyElbow.com Night Crew in the comments section and follow me (@lelandroling) on Twitter for live analysis.

The event will feature the quarterfinal round of the World Bantamweight Grand Prix tournament along with a number of Japanese MMA staples. Most notably, Shinya Aoki will battle former WEC lightweight champion Rob McCullough in the main event of the evening, and Tatsuya Kawajiri will make his featherweight debut against Norwegian Joachim Hansen. The rest of the card is as follows:

DREAM 17: World Bantamweight Grand Prix
September 24, Saitama Super Arena, Saitama, Japan
Lightweight: Shinya Aoki (28-5-0-1) vs. Rob McCullough (19-7)
Featherweight: Tatsuya Kawajiri (27-7-2) vs. Joachim Hansen (22-10)
Featherweight: Takeshi Inoue (20-5) vs. Caol Uno (26-13-5)
Welterweight: Kazushi Sakuraba (26-15-1-2) vs. Yan Cabral (9-0)
Lightweight: Satoru Kitaoka (28-10-9) vs. Willamy Freire (18-4)
Middleweight: Kazuhiro Nakamura (15-10) vs. Gerald Harris (18-4)
Bantamweight Grand Prix Quarterfinals: Hideo Tokoro (30-23-1) vs. Antonio Banuelos (18-7)
Bantamweight Grand Prix Quarterfinals: Bibiano Fernandes (8-3) vs. Takafumi Otsuka (12-8-1)
Bantamweight Grand Prix Quarterfinals: Masakazu Imanari (23-9-2) vs. Abel Cullum (18-5)
Bantamweight Grand Prix Quarterfinals: Rodolfo Marques (13-1) vs. Yusup Saadulaev (8-0-1)
Openweight: Ikuhisa Minowa (49-32-8) vs. Baru Harn (1-1)