Dream 15

Dream 15 was a mixed martial arts event held by Fighting and Entertainment Group's mixed martial arts promotion Dream. The event took place on July 10, 2010 at the Saitama Super Arena in Saitama, Japan.^[1] The event aired live in North America on HDNet.

Dream 15
The poster for Dream 15
Promotion	Dream
Date	July 10, 2010
Venue	Saitama Super Arena
City	Saitama, Japan
Attendance	13,028
Event chronology
Dream 14 Dream 15 Dream 16

Background

A Light Heavyweight Grand Prix was originally expected to start at Dream 14, with an eight-man tournament. However, Dream 15 hosted the opening round of the Grand Prix, with only a four-man tournament.^[2]

Alistair Overeem was briefly rumoured to be fighting Ricco Rodriguez, but the fight was called off.^[3]

Results

Main Card
Weight class				Method	Round	Time	Notes
Lightweight	Shinya Aoki	def.	Tatsuya Kawajiri	Submission (Achilles Lock)	1	1:53
Lightweight	Gesias Cavalcante	def.	Katsunori Kikuno	Decision (Split)	2	5:00
Light Heavyweight	Gegard Mousasi	def.	Jake O'Brien	Submission (Standing Guillotine Choke)	1	0:31
Light Heavyweight	Tatsuya Mizuno	def.	Melvin Manhoef	Submission (Kimura)	1	7:38
Featherweight	Michihiro Omigawa	def.	Young Sam Jung	Submission (Guillotine Choke)	1	7:31
Featherweight	Mitsuhiro Ishida	def.	Daiki Hata	Decision (Unanimous)	2	5:00
Middleweight	Kazuhiro Nakamura	def.	Karl Amoussou	Decision (Unanimous)	2	5:00

2010 Light Heavyweight Grand Prix Bracket

	Semi-finals				Final
	Melvin Manhoef	1
	Tatsuya Mizuno	SUB
					Tatsuya Mizuno
					Gegard Mousasi
	Gegard Mousasi	SUB
	Jake O'Brien	1

Notes

After Jake O'Brien failed to make weight, his Light Heavyweight Grand Prix Opening Round bout against Gegard Mousasi was made into a 212-lbs catchweight bout. O'Brien started with a yellow card, a point deduction and a 10% purse deduction.