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Former champion Eddie Alvarez won’t be fighting for a chance to reclaim his Bellator lightweight title anytime soon.

Bellator chairman and CEO Bjorn Rebney today told MMAjunkie.com Radio that Alvarez won’t take the final slot in the organization’s season-six lightweight tournament.

Instead, he’s working to book Alvarez for a rematch with DREAM champion Shinya Aoki.

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Fedor Emelianenko picked up his second consecutive victory in a long-awaited return to Japan.

The former PRIDE champion and Strikeforce heavyweight plastered former Olympic judoka Satoshii Ishii with stiff punches to earn a first-round knockout win.

Emelianenko vs. Ishii headlined “DREAM: New Year! 2011″ (also dubbed “Genki Desu Ka!!”), which took place early Saturday at Saitama Super Arena in Saitama, Japan. The entire nine-hour event, which ushered in the new year in Japan, aired live on HDNet.

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DREAM lightweight champion Shinya Aoki will defend his title
against former Sengoku titleholder Satoru Kitaoka on New
Year’s Eve.

DREAM officials today announced the matchup for “DREAM: Fight for Japan.
How are you! New Year! 2011,” which takes place Dec. 31 at Saitama
Super Arena in Saitama, Japan.

The card airs live in the U.S. on HDNet.

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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, who fought five times
for the promotion on year-end shows, and Japanese superstar Shinya Aoki, 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.

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Back in September, former WEC champion “Razor” Rob McCullough fought for
the first time outside the U.S., and he did so against Japanese notable
Shinya Aoki.

The bout headlined DREAM.17 at Saitama Super Arena in Saitama, Japan.

With Japanese MMA on the decline and DREAM desperately clinging to life,
Aoki vs. McCullough headlined one of the country’s biggest cards of the year.

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SAITAMA, Japan — Dream lightweight champion Shinya Aoki racked up another submission finish in the main event of Dream 17 on Saturday at the Saitama Super Arena, this time over former WEC lightweight champion “Razor” Rob McCullough.

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DREAM lightweight champion Shinya Aoki earned his sixth-consecutive MMA
victory by submitting striking specialist “Razor” Rob McCullough in the
first round of their Saturday encounter.

The non-title matchup, which played out as most MMA pundits predicted, served as
the featured contest of DREAM.17, which took place at Saitama Super
Arena in Saitama, Japan.

The evening’s 11-bout lineup aired live on HDNet.

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It took all of about two seconds for Rob McCullough (19-7 MMA, 0-0 DREAM) to agree to fight Shinya Aoki (28-5…

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It took all of about two seconds for Rob McCullough to agree to fight Shinya Aoki.

Is he being set up as cannon fodder for the DREAM champion? Probably.
You’d be hard pressed to find a clearer style versus style matchup on
paper, or one that favors Aoki if the action hits the mat.

McCullough can grapple, but he’s a striker at heart. So why do it?

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Veteran MMA agent Monte Cox and client Eddie Alvarez want just two things: more fights, and more fights against top-ranked opponents.

Now, Cox said, that could lead to an early-2012 fight (and rematch) between Alvarez – Bellator’s reigning lightweight champion – and Japanese star and DREAM titleholder Shinya Aoki.

Cox discussed the possible non-title bout on today’s edition of MMAjunkie.com Radio.

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