Dream 17 was a mixed martial arts

Mixed martial arts

Mixed Martial Arts is a full contact combat sport that allows the use of both striking and grappling techniques, both standing and on the ground, including boxing, wrestling, Brazilian jiu-jitsu, muay Thai, kickboxing, karate, judo and other styles. The roots of modern mixed martial arts can be...

 event held by Fighting and Entertainment Group

Fighting and Entertainment Group

Fighting and Entertainment Group is the leading Japanese combat sport promoter. Its current president is Sadaharu Tanikawa and it is the parent company behind the mixed martial arts series Dream and formerly, the largest kickboxing promotion in the world, K-1.On December 31, 2010 after the Dream...

's mixed martial arts promotion Dream

DREAM (mixed martial arts)

Dream is a mixed martial arts organization promoted by former PRIDE FC executives and K-1 promoter Fighting and Entertainment Group. DREAM replaced FEG's previous-run mixed martial arts fight series, Hero's. The series retains many of the stylistic flourishes and personnel from Pride FC...

. The event took place on September 24, 2011 at the Saitama Super Arena

Saitama Super Arena

is a multi-purpose indoor arena located in Chūō-ku, Saitama City, Saitama, Japan. Its spectator capacity is 37,000 at maximum settings.This main arena capacity is between 19,000-22,500 when events such as basketball, volleyball, tennis, ice hockey, gymnastics, boxing, mixed martial arts and...

 in Saitama, Japan.

Background

Contrary to previous events, Dream used the card to launch a new rule change: the use of three, five-minute rounds.

This event featured the opening round in Dream's World Bantamweight Grand Prix.

Results

• Open-weight bout:   Ikuhisa Minowa
  Ikuhisa Minowa
  is a Japanese mixed martial artist and pro wrestler currently competing in Dream as . He was a long time veteran of Pride Fighting Championships and Pancrase and has also competed in other mixed martial arts promotions such as K-1 HERO'S, Cage Rage, UFC, and DEEP. At 5'9" he is notable for taking...
  
   vs.   Baru Harn

Minowa defeated Harn via submission (scarf hold arm-lock and neck crank) at 4:39 of round 1.

• Bantamweight Tournament Quarterfinal bout:   Rodolfo Marques vs.   Yusup Saadulaev

Marques defeated Saadulaev via unanimous decision.

• Bantamweight Tournament Quarterfinal bout:   Masakazu Imanari
  Masakazu Imanari
  is a Japanese mixed martial artist best known for his leglocks. He fights out of Team Roken in Kanagawa, Japan. He currently has a professional MMA record of 24–9–2 with notable victories over Danny Batten, Jorge Gurgel, Mike Brown, Robbie Olivier, Jean Silva and Yoshiro Maeda. He is a veteran...
  
   vs.   Abel Cullum
  Abel Cullum
  Abel Cullum is an American mixed martial artist. He is the former King of the Cage Champion.-King of the Cage:...
  
  

Imanari defeated Cullum via submission (armbar) at 0:46 of round 3.

• Bantamweight Tournament Quarterfinal bout:   Bibiano Fernandes
  Bibiano Fernandes
  Bibiano Fernandes is a Brazilian professional mixed martial artist who has competed for K-1, DREAM, and King of the Cage. He was the first DREAM Featherweight Champion.-Early career:...
  
   vs.   Takafumi Otsuka

Fernandes defeated Otsuka via technical submission (rear naked choke) at 0:41 of round 1.

• Bantamweight Tournament Quarterfinal bout:   Hideo Tokoro
  Hideo Tokoro
  Hideo Tokoro is a Japanese mixed martial artist currently competing in Dream in the bantamweight division. He competed in many mixed martial arts fights in other various promotions such as TFC, ZST, Shooto, Rings and K-1 Hero's.-DREAM:...
  
   vs.   Antonio Banuelos
  Antonio Banuelos
  Juan Antonio Banuelos is an American mixed martial artist who competes in the Bantamweight division.-Mixed martial arts career:...
  
  

Banuelos defeated Tokoro via split decision.

• Middleweight bout:   Kazuhiro Nakamura
  Kazuhiro Nakamura
  Kazuhiro Nakamura is a Japanese mixed martial artist currently competing as a middleweight in DREAM. His primary style is judo, in which he holds a 3rd dan black belt under Hidehiko Yoshida...
  
   vs.   Gerald Harris

Harris defeated Nakamura via split decision.

• Lightweight bout:   Satoru Kitaoka
  Satoru Kitaoka
  , is a Japanese mixed martial artist. He has fought the majority of his career as a welterweight for Pancrase, but moved down to lightweight in 2008 when he joined MMA promoter World Victory Road. Kitaoka is renowned for his submission grappling abilities and is the reigning BJJ and No-Gi Open...
  
   vs.   Willamy Freire
  Willamy Freire
  Willamy Friere is an Brazilian professional mixed martial artist who has fought for Shooto and the Ultimate Fighting Championship. Freire was also the Shooto Welterweight Champion.-Early career:...
  
  

Kitaoka defeated Freire via split decision.

• Welterweight bout:   Kazushi Sakuraba
  Kazushi Sakuraba
  is a Japanese professional mixed martial artist and former professional wrestler. He has competed in pro-wrestling for New Japan Pro Wrestling, UWFi and Kingdom Pro Wrestling. He has fought in MMA competition in the Ultimate Fighting Championship, PRIDE Fighting Championships, K-1 Hero's and Dream...
  
   vs.   Yan Cabral
  Yan Cabral
  Yan Cabral is a Brazilian professional mixed martial artist who competes in the welterweight division. A professional MMA competitor since 2007, Cabral has fought all over the world including Austria, Spain, Switzerland and his native Brazil.-Background and early career:Cabral currently trains...
  
  

Cabral defeated Sakuraba via submission (arm triangle choke) at 2:42 of round 2.

• Featherweight bout:   Takeshi Inoue
  Takeshi Inoue
  "Lion" Takeshi Inoue is a Japanese mixed martial artist currently fighting as a lightweight in the Shooto organization. In other organizations such as the WEC he would be considered a featherweight as Shooto's 143 lb. weight class is known as lightweight.-Biography:On November 8, 2007, he...
  
   vs.   Caol Uno
  Caol Uno
  is a Japanese mixed martial artist, and former Shooto Welterweight Champion. Specifically, Uno is known for his low single leg takedown and rear naked choke. He was born in Kanagawa, Japan...
  
  

Inoue defeated Uno via KO (head kick) at 4:17 of round 1.

• Featherweight bout:   Tatsuya Kawajiri
  Tatsuya Kawajiri
  Tatsuya Kawajiri is a Japanese mixed martial artist and a former Shooto welterweight champion, currently competing in Dream's lightweight division...
  
   vs.   Joachim Hansen

Kawajiri defeated Hansen via submission (arm triangle choke) at 2:30 of round 3.

• Lightweight bout:   Shinya Aoki
  Shinya Aoki
  is a Japanese mixed martial artist, grappler, and former police trainee who is noted for being the DREAM Lightweight Champion and former Shooto Middleweight Champion. Aoki holds a black belt in Brazilian jiu-jitsu under Yuki Nakai, as well as a black belt in judo. He is one of the most prominent...
  
   vs.   Rob McCullough
  Rob McCullough
  Robert Alexander McCullough IV is an American Muay Thai kickboxer and mixed martial artist. He was a five-time World Muay Thai Champion, and is a former WEC Lightweight Champion. He currently trains out of Huntington Beach, CA at HB Ultimate Training Center...
  
  

Aoki defeated McCullough via submission (neck crank) at 4:57 of round 1.