Fighting and Entertainment Group announced a partial card for their first K-1 World Grand Prix event of 2009, which will take place in Yokohama on Saturday, March 28 and airs live on HDNet.
FieLDS K-1 WORLD GP 2009 IN YOKOHAMA
Saturday 28 March 2009
Yokohama Arena, Yokohama, Japan
K-1 Heavyweight Title Tournament
Melvin Manhoef vs. Chalid "Die Faust" Arrab
Ruslan Karaev vs. Gokhan Saki
Manhoef/Arrab vs. Karaev/Saki
K-1 Heavyweight Title Tournament Reserve Bout
Tyrone Spong vs. Keijiro Maeda
Superfights
Remy Bonjasky vs. Alistair Overeem
Badr Hari vs. Errol Zimmerman
Jerome Le Banner vs. Ewerton Teixeira
Junichi Sawayashiki vs. Glaube Feitosa
Also announced was a DREAM.7 (March 8th, not live on HDNet) matchup between Japanese star Tatsuya "Crusher" Kawajiri (22-5-2) and B.J. Penn protege Ross "The Boss" Ebanez (19-6). Kawajiri's last MMA bout was a DREAM.5 LWGP loss to Eddie Alvarez last July, but more recently, "Crusher" pulled an upset at K-1 Dynamite!! 2008, knocking out K-1 MAX veteran and former Thai national Muay Thai champion Kozo Takeda.
Japan-MMA had this interesting (if somewhat misleading) stat:
Both fighters have faced Eddie Alvarez, and lasted almost to the second as long (7:35 for Kawajiri and 7:32 for Ebanez).
