Vitor “Shaolin” wins at Dream 8

Source: www.mmaweekly.com

DREAM held its second event in the last month, staging DREAM 8 from Nagoya, Japan. The event was highlighted by the opening round of the DREAM Welterweight Grand Prix.

After a long layoff, the Nova Uniao Black Belt, Vitor “Shaolin” Ribeiro returned to action against Olympic wrestling medalist Katsuhiko Nagata. It didn’t take long for the fight to hit the ground and after a quick reversal, Shaolin ended up on top. From that point on, Shaolin used his overwhelming grappling and easily moved from position to position. He finally settled on side mount, where he rained a couple of big knees that opened a nasty cut on Nagata’s head that forced an immediate stoppage of the fight at 7:58 of the opening round.