Shinya Aoki Will Fight at Dream 17, Two Interesting Opponents Possible

  • Welcome to "The New" Wrestling Smarks Forum!

    I see that you are not currently registered on our forum. It only takes a second, and you can even login with your Facebook! If you would like to register now, pease click here: Register

    Once registered please introduce yourself in our introduction thread which can be found here: Introduction Board


WrestlingSmarks News

Active Member
Joined
Jan 28, 2011
Messages
8,907
Reaction score
1
Points
36
Location
Following a story.
shinya_aoki_large.jpg
It was reported last week that Japanese submission ace Shinya Aoki would indeed be competing on Dream 17: Fight For Japan card on May 29th. His original opponent was supposed to be Willamy "Chiquerim" Friere, but Chiquerim had to withdraw due to visa issues. MMAWeekly is reporting that Aoki will stay on the card, and his two possible opponents each offer interesting stylistic challenges:

MMAWeekly.com initially reported that a fight between he and former MFC lightweight champion Antonio McKee was on tap, as long as McKee could finalize his travel details. While that fight is very much still in play, our sources indicate that Dream is also negotiating with former WEC lightweight champion Jamie Varner.

​
It seems that both potential opponents have been issued bout agreements, due to the fact that McKee might have the same sort of visa issues that Friere had. If the former MFC lightweight champion is good to go, he'll get the fight. If not, it will fall to Varner. Varner is scheduled to compete against Tyler Combs in his first post-Zuffa matchup in Chicago at XFO 39 one week from today. It is unclear if he will still participate in that fight after being offered this one. In typical Dream fashion, this should all be cleared up in the 10-or-so days leading up to the May 29th event in Saitama.


 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Top Bottom