Fedor Emelianenko, Shinya Aoki likely for 'DREAM: New Year! 2011'

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New Year's Eve will apparently have a very familiar feel for mixed martial arts fans.

Longtime PRIDE veteran Fedor Emelianenko (32-4), who fought five times
for the promotion on year-end shows, and Japanese superstar Shinya Aoki
(29-5), a four-time year-end fighter, each appear likely to fight at
this year's "DREAM: Fight for Japan. How are you! New Year! 2011." fight
card.

The tentative additions were announced on Monday's new edition of "Inside MMA," HDNet's MMA news series.

The event takes place Dec. 31 at Saitama Super Arena in Saitama, Japan. HDNet Fights CEO Andrew Simon told MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com) the event will air on HDNet. However, it hasn't been decided if it'll air live or via delay.

In addition to MMA fights, the event is expected to feature K-1,
kickboxing, pro-wrestling and other competitions as part of a stacked
lineup.

Emelianenko's booking comes on the heels of a weekend win over Jeff
Monson at an M-1 Global card. "The Last Emperor" battled through
consecutive losses to Dan Henderson, Antonio Silva and Fabricio Werdum,
leaving some to wonder if he had any fight left in the tank, but it
appears the 35-year-old Russian will carry on.

Japanese judoka Satoshi Ishii (4-1-1) appears to be the leading candidate for Emelianenko's opponent.

Meanwhile, Aoki brings a six-fight win streak to the cage. While a 2010
loss to Gilbert Melendez under the Strikeforce banner is still fresh in
many MMA fans' minds, Aoki is 9-1 in his past 10 fights. The submission
ace fought most recently in September, when he submitted former WEC
champ "Razor" Rob McCullough in the first round of a DREAM.17 contest.

Make sure they pay you before you show up overweight Fedor. Or you will never get paid.

Andrew the Raider King wrote:

Make sure they pay you before you show up overweight Fedor. Or you will never get paid.

You are the troll we always thought you were.

I knew you 'we' people were fucking French. And how is pointing out the obvious trolling? DREAM has a bad reputation for not paying their fighters and Fedor looked chunkier than usual against Monson on Sunday.

Fedor looked the same as he always has against Monson.

OK. Sorry. He looked somewhat rounder.

DREAM is under a new parent company now, right?

perhaps the days of stiffing their fighters are over.

anyway, i always enjoys Dynamite and Fedor being back in Japan is pretty cool. I'm just happy there will be a NYE show this year. The K-1 tourny being nixed and the lack of DREAM made me skeptical that there would even be a NYE show this year.