DREAM 12 makes for MMA all-nighter

With UFC 104: Machida vs. Shogun grabbing all the attention it’s easy to forget there’s another MMA event going on this weekend worth watching. Sunday will see Strikeforce heavyweight champ Alistair Overeem, Bellator FC lightweight champion Eddie Alvarez, DREAM welterweight champ Marius Zaromskis, the legendary Kazushi Sakuraba and former WEC bantamweight champ Chase Beebe all slated for action at DREAM 12 in Osaka, Japan. PRIDE FC vet and former WEC middleweight champ Paulo Filho was expected to be on the card but has withdrawn because of visa issues (according Tatame).

This will be the first DREAM event to be held inside a cage (six-sided, I believe). If I’m not mistaken, the event will air on HDNet beginning at 2 a.m. Sunday morning, or roughly an hour after UFC 104 ends, which means you could make an MMA all-nighter of it.

Here’s the full DREAM 12 lineup:

* Alistair Overeem vs. James Thompson
* Zelg Galesic vs. Kazushi Sakuraba
* Tokimitsu Ishizawa vs. Katsuyori Shibata
* Marius Zaromskis vs. Myeon Ho Bae (non-title fight)
* Keisuke Fujiwara vs. Tomoya Miyashita
* Tarec Saffiedine vs. Yoon Dong Sik
* Chase Beebe vs. Yoshiro Maeda
* Eddie Alvarez vs. Katsunori Kikuno
* Kuniyoshi Hironaka vs. Won Sik Park