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Trigg-Jacare NOT Set for DREAM 2; Diaz Verbally Accepts Garcia Fight (Updated)

Apr 18, 2008 9:43 AM John Chandler


Frank Trigg grapples with Renato Verissimo. Photo property of the Ultimate Fighting Championship.

Update 3:30 PM ET: Frank Trigg revealed through his TAGG Radio show today and The Underground Forum that he has not signed with DREAM and not will be fighting Ronaldo Souza, who happens to be a training partner of his at Xtreme Couture in Las Vegas.

DREAM parent company Fight Entertainment Group has announced four more bouts for the first round of the organization’s upcoming middleweight grand prix, which will currently take place on April 29th at the Saitama Super Arena in Saitama, Japan.

Former UFC welterweight title contender Frank Trigg will take on renowned grappler Ronaldo “Jacare” Souza in a first round bout. Addtional matchups include Zelg Galesic vs. Magomed Sultanakhmadov, Ikuhisa Minowa vs. Taiei Kin, and Dong Sik Yoon vs. Shungo Oyama.

Also, current EliteXC lightweight Nick Diaz has apparently verbally accepted a bout against Marcelo Garcia according to manager Cesar Gracie.

From Graciefighter.com:

Nick Diaz has verbally accepted to fight Marcelo Garcia at the next Dream show. (April 29th) Although Garcia inititially accepted the fight, there has been talk that the match will now be scrubbed. According to Dream promoters, Marcelo has now decided that he does not want the fight and it is unclear if Dream will be able to find an opponent in time for Nick to participate. Stay tuned.

The card for the event now looks like this:

DREAM Middleweight Grand Prix

Denis Kang vs. Gegard Mousasi
Kazushi Sakuraba vs. Andrews Nakahara
Kiyoshi Tamura vs. Masakatsu Funaki
Frank Trigg vs. Ronaldo Souza
Zelg Galesic vs. Magomed Sultanakhmadov
Ikuhisa Minowa vs. Taiei Kin
Dong Sik Yoon vs. Shungo Oyama

DREAM Lightweight Grand Prix

Shinya Aoki vs. Gesias Calvancante

Frank Trigg • Ikuhisa Minowa • Marcelo Garcia • Nick Diaz • Ronaldo Souza • Shungo Oyama • Zelg Galesic • DREAM • Lightweight • Middleweight

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1. Bill Reger
from New York
Apr 18, 2008 1:02 PM

I never know what to believe when it comes to information about Nick Diaz from his camp’s website, Graciefighter.  They drop this proposed fight the week he’s announced as competing in Hawaii on June 14th, six weeks after this proposed DREAM fight.  But conveniently for Diaz, Garcia is said to have refused it.  First its Noons that refused to fight him, now Marcelo Garcia.  Yeah, everyone is so scared of Nick Diaz.  Whatever.

2. Bill Reger
from New York
Apr 18, 2008 2:31 PM

LOL, apparently the announcement of Trigg vs Jacare was premature as well.  Frank Trigg posted this on the Underground Forum that it will not take place.

Sorry guys. I’m not fighting for dreams. We were talking to them a while back but they moved to slow to get the deal done. Jacare and I both tran at xtreme couture in. Las vegas and if we ever fought it would be in the finals. Sorry you guys were misinformed.

Good to see DREAM following in Pride’s footsteps of announcing fights that have no chance of happening!

3. John Chandler
from Philadelphia, PA
Apr 18, 2008 3:00 PM

I kind of thought that Trigg-Jacare matchup was a little fishy to begin with, especially since they both train at Xtreme Couture. Then again so have Kimbo Slice and James Thompson so who knows. Anyway, from the way Trigg has been talking lately, it doesn’t sound like he’ll be fighting anytime soon.

4. Craig O
from sacto, califa
Apr 21, 2008 12:27 PM

“” First its Noons that refused to fight him, now Marcelo Garcia.  Yeah, everyone is so scared of Nick Diaz.  Whatever. “”


so they are posting on Graciefighter.com that people are scared on Nick DIaz? ??? i’m gonna have to go read these articles where they call Noons and Garcia scared.
btw, great use of the word “whatever”, i remeber usuing that in 5th grade or earlier but not much after.

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