The full results from the event are below:

The card will tend Pro, Amateur, Semi Pro and two K1 fights. The three pro fights will showcase KO Fight Team’s Marek Idzikowski against Phoenix MMA’s Jimmy Johnstone at lightweight. Avaddon MMA’s Jay Cucciniello makes his pro debut against Sam Ward of Bullring Gym at featherweight. Team Crossface welterweight Shah Hussain will meet Ben Abbot of SSJ Dojo.

Full Card:

Amateur:
TBC vs. Jason Smith
Sunny Sandu vs. Jake Simonelli
Anthony Rayment vs. Tommy Allen
Rob Willis vs. Tom Ward
Ricky Flanders vs. Adam Batho

Semi Pro:
Scott Hunt vs. Ben Pye
Carl Hunt vs. Michael Jones
Nathan Shetty vs. stuart Mcdowell
Daniel Thomas vs. Khaled Jasser

K1:
Matt Valdar vs. Kanwan
Ed Loft vs. Kevin Stonhill

Pro:

Jay Cucciniello vs. Sam Ward
Marek Idzikowski vs. Jimmy Johnstone
Shah Hussain vs. Ben Abbot

Although he only had a couple of professional MMA fights before injury put a halt to the run he was putting together, he made a big impression. A 30 second obliteration of Brian Blewitt and a submission victory over Greg Loughran were enough for him to be touted for big things. There was another fight as well which he won via armbar taking his actual professional record to 3-0 but this is not recorded on MMAUniverse or Sherdog.

We managed to get hold of David for an interview and were really impressed with how relaxed, open and honest he came across.

Hi Dave cheers for taking some time out to talk to us today.
No worries.

Hardcore UKMMA fans will be very familiar with you and your early career and certainly with your family name. Other more recently converted MMA fans may have only seen you on TV in Britain’s Hardest with Danny Dyer. For those readers that aren’t familiar with you, can you give them a little background on yourself please?
I started fighting at an early age. The first thing I competed in when I was about 6 or 7 was Judo which I did for about 4 years. After that I did thai boxing, boxing and started MMA in 2002. I taught kick boxing for a few years with my bro in Salford. I own Quannum Gym in Oldham and train the Quannum fight team. I am coached by some of the best guys around in my opinion: I wrestle with Billy Cooper, box with ex pros Ian Midwood and Andy Butlin, Thai box with Kru Aaron Chatfield and Markus Grosse, grapple with Les Allen and am coached BJJ by Roberto Atalla who is now based in Poland but a great friend who I still see and train with when I can. I thank him for a lot of my ground game as well as Les and Leigh Remedios who used to live at my house and has an excellent style for mma as he’s proved. I also have black belts in kick boxing and combat arts and some other shit. I train with my team and also have been helped through the years by close friends Aaron Chatfield and Matt 12 gauge Thorpe from the Colloseum.

So the obvious question is: How does it feel to be getting back in the cage after 7 years out?
It feels a long time coming. I love to fight and have been dreaming of getting back in.

Obviously in your time out from fighting, you haven’t been away from MMA as you run Quannum and you were the head coach for the UK M1 challenge team. As a man with a fighter’s heart, is it hard being around fights and fighters and not being able to get in there yourself?
Words can’t describe it. I teach 4-5 days a week at least and have had to watch people do something I love and not take part. I’ve always loved to spar hard and I’ve been unable to do anything but drill and light movement. How would you feel?

The M1 team made it right through to the semi-finals in their first time at the event. How was the M1 experience and will we see another UK team entering again in the future?
I don’t know about another UK team. If there is I won’t be taking part. I am going to be selfish for a while with my own training and that of my own team. As for the experience it was amazing. All the fighters were quality. Good guys and unbelievable fighters. We had a real laugh and many experiences I will never forget. It’s great to see Rob Broughton and Tom Blackledge going on to the UFC. No one more deserving than those two, it was an honour to work with them. It was actually more nerve racking cornering the 5 guys than if I was fighting!! Wrecked me but what a thrill!!

Can you tell us about the nature of the injury that has kept you away from fighting for so long?

Unfortunately it seems that after an excellent fight Brad dropped a very close decision due to the positional dominance and takedowns of his opponent Scott Jorgensen.

Both the UFC118 matchups are very winnable for the Brits and they will be hoping to kickstart a series of wins for the team with their performances on Saturday in Boston.

The event will take place on August  22nd at the Ryogoku Kokugikan in Tokyo, Japan.

Lawson now 14 -3 (having only lost one of this past 13 fights) is coming off a victory over another experienced highly ranked featherweight David Lee at BAMMA 3.

Hatsu Hioki comes off a spilt decision win against Takeshi Inoue at Shooto – The way of Shooto 3.

Further information can be found on UK MMA News

Heavyweight:

1. Rob Broughton
2. Karlos Vemola
3. Stav Economou
4. Neil Grove
5. Neil Wain
6. Mustapha Al Turk
7. James McSweeney
8. Martin Thompson
9. James Thompson
10. Oli Thompson

Light-heavyweight:

1. Przemyslaw Mysiala
2. Jimi Manuwa
3. Tom Blackledge
4. Valentino Petrescu
5. Linton Vassell
6. Mike Edwards
7. Lanus Jones
8. Kevin Thompson
9. Arunas Andriuskevicius
10. Jake Bostwick

Middleweight:

1. Michael Bisping
2. Tom Watson
3. Paul Cahoon
4. Denniston Sutherland
5. John Phillips
6. James Zikic
7. Zelg Galesic
8. Alex Makhonin
9. Carl Noon
10.Andrew Punshon

Welterweight:

1. Dan Hardy
2. Paul Daley
3. John Hathaway
4. Marius Zaromskis
5. Jim Wallhead
6. Nick Osipczak
7. Paul Taylor
8. Che Mills
9. Wayne Murrie
10. Eugene Fadiora

Lightweight:

1. Terry Etim
2. Ross Pearson
3. Andre Winner
4. Paul Kelly
5. Paul Sass
6. Rob Sinclair
7. Mick Sinclair
8. Tim Radcliffe
9. Jason Ball
10. Daniel Thomas

Featherweight:

1. Ronnie Mann
2. Jeff Lawson
3. Mark Adams
4. Dave Lee
5. Ashleigh Grimshaw
6. Paul Reed
7. Robbie Olivier
8. Graham Turner
9. Dave Hill
10. Owen Roddy

Bantamweight:

1. Brad Pickett
2. Paul McVeigh
3. James Doolan
4. Leigh Remedios
5. Giorgio Andrews
6. Jay McGuinness
7. Vaughn Lee
8. Mark Connor
9. Damien Rooney
10. Dec Williams

“Jon just burst onto the scene but has looked so exciting in all his fights. I’m not privy to the thinking of Dana [White] on the matter, but Jon Jones is certainly one of those guys with a lot of expectation who Dana and Joe [Silva] will have to nurture in the correct way. A victory over Vladimir Matyushenko would already put Jones at the top and closing in on a title shot. He would probably be two or three fights away, and if he keeps winning it will be very hard to keep him from walking through that Octagon door to a title shot. Jon’s got a great temperament, nobody is really pissed off by him, and he has plenty of people wanting to work out the mystery of how to beat him.”

Rodriguez has quietly put together a 14-3 record since last fighting on a big stage. The last major organization Rodriguez competed in was EliteXC, where he dropped a split decision to Antonio “Bigfoot” Silva back in February of 2008 at the “Street Certified” event.

Overeem is coming off a big TKO victory over Strikeforce heavyweight contender Brett Rogers earlier this year (May 15th) as well as a pretty good string of success, save a few bumps in the road, in kickboxing, fighting for K-1.

The July 10th DREAM event will be held at the Saitama Super Arena in Saitama, Japan.