Dream Lightweight Champion Shinya Aoki successfully defended his title against Tatsuya "The Crusher" Kawajiri in the main event of the Dream 15 fight card at the Saitama Super Arena in Saitama, Japan July 10.
Being a well-known attention hog, Aoki then took the opportunity to propose to his girlfriend live on TV while fans were floored by this whole new side of the usually mean-spirited fighter (he broke Mizuto Hirota's arm at Dynamite! 2009 and then flipped off the audience while cussing out his injured opponent).
Complete Dream 15 fight results:
- Middleweight bout: Kazuhiro Nakamura def. Karl Amoussou via Unanimous Decision, - 5:00, R2.
- Featherweight bout: Mitsuhiro Ishida def. Daiki Hata via Unanimous Decision - 5:00, R2.
- Featherweight bout: Michihiro Omigawa def. Jong Young Sam via Submission (guillotine choke) - 8:45, R1.
- Light Heavyweight Grand Prix Opening Round bout: Tatsuya Mizuno def. Melvin Manhoef via Submission (kimura) - 7:23, R1.
- Light Heavyweight Grand Prix Opening Round bout: Gegard Mousasi def. Jake O'Brien via Submission (standing guillotine choke) - 0:31, R1.
- Lightweight bout: Gesias Cavalcante def. Katsunori Kikuno via Split Decision - 5:00, R2.
- Lightweight Championship bout: Shinya Aoki (c) def. Tatsuya Kawajiri via Submission (heel hook) - 1:53, R1. Aoki retains Dream Lightweight Championship belt.
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That was an awesome event. Great fights, upsets, worth the whole night up for sure!
Simple rule of submissions: Learn to tap, or learn how to work with a cast on. So Hirota brought that on himself. And he didn't propose to his girlfriend on stage, he announced the wedding, bit of a difference there.
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