Five Ounces of Pain » Jackson vs. Jardine http://fiveouncesofpain.com Your Destination for Insider MMA News and Opinion Mon, 13 Feb 2012 00:52:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 Ralek Gracie replaces Cacareco at DREAM.4 http://fiveouncesofpain.com/2008/06/12/ralek-gracie-replaces-cacareco-at-dream4/ http://fiveouncesofpain.com/2008/06/12/ralek-gracie-replaces-cacareco-at-dream4/#comments Fri, 13 Jun 2008 02:58:02 +0000 Michael Huckaby http://fiveouncesofpain.com/2008/06/12/ralek-gracie-replaces-cacareco-at-dream4/ So it was announced by DREAM. Gracie was originally scheduled to face Mirko Cro Cop in a special grappling rules bout but Filipovic pulled out late due to “injury.” Don’t mind the quotes, I’m sure it was just a typo.

Cacareco‘s departure has been blamed both on problems obtaining a visa (his team) and him simply pulling off of the card due to jet lag (DREAM). BloodyElbow has a blurb as I’m sure which side most of us will come down on this.

Current lineup for late, late Saturday night’s show:

  • Shinya Aoki vs Katsuhiko Nagata (LWGP)
  • Alistair Overeem vs Tae Hyun Lee
  • Ralek Gracie vs Alavutdin Gadzhiyev
  • Hideo Tokoro vs Darren Uyenoyama
  • Dong Sik Yoon vs Gegard Mousasi (MWGP)
  • Zelg Galesic vs Taiei Kin (MWGP)
  • “Mayhem” Miller vs “Jacare” Souza (MWGP)
  • Kazushi Sakuraba vs Melvin Manhoef (MWGP)
]]> http://fiveouncesofpain.com/2008/06/12/ralek-gracie-replaces-cacareco-at-dream4/feed/ 1 Grappling match between Cro Cop and Gracie cancelled http://fiveouncesofpain.com/2008/06/08/grappling-match-between-cro-cop-and-gracie-cancelled/ http://fiveouncesofpain.com/2008/06/08/grappling-match-between-cro-cop-and-gracie-cancelled/#comments Sun, 08 Jun 2008 09:14:10 +0000 Sam Cupitt http://fiveouncesofpain.com/2008/06/08/grappling-match-between-cro-cop-and-gracie-cancelled/ crocop_kick.jpg

Mirko “Cro Cop” Filipovic has pulled out of his scheduled grappling match with Ralek Gracie at Dream 4 due to some nagging injuries.The news comes from MMA Weekly via a report on Croatian news site, Dnevnik.hr.

The report states that Cro Cop decided against the grappling match because he wanted to rehab some nagging injuries and focus on a July 21st MMA bout likely to be against former K-1 champion kickboxer, Jerome LeBanner at Dream 5.

Although the grappling match probably wouldn’t have been the most enthralling of contests I was still intrigued to see it and now I’m slightly disappointed that it has been cancelled. I knew I should have been suspicious when Mike Huckaby posted up a completed fight card for Dream 4 up more than two days out from the event. In retrospect that finished fight card now just looks like a deformed Minowaman taunting me.

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