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JZ Cavalcante Set to Face Kawajiri

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Two-time K-1 Hero's champion Gesias "JZ" Cavalcante has agreed to face off with Japanese stalwart Tatsuya Kawajiri at Dream 9 on May 26, according to sources in Cavalcante’s American Top Team camp.

Cavalcante (14-2-1) will look to get back on the winning track after his last two outings, which returned a no contest and his first loss in nearly four years. Both of those outcomes came against well-regarded Shinya Aoki, with the no contest coming as a result of illegal elbow strikes -- something ATT still contests.

The 25-year-old Brazilian will be venturing back into action after a nearly 13-month layoff, the longest of his five-year career.

Kawajiri, 31, has been a fixture in the Japanese MMA scene since 2000. He worked his way up the ladder from Shooto, where he held the 154-pound title, to Pride and now Dream.

Always ranked among the top lightweights in the world, Kawajiri (23-5-2) returned from a TKO loss to Eddie Alvarez in Dream’s lightweight grand prix last summer to dispatch Ross Ebanez by submission earlier this month.

The card is slated for Saitama, Japan.
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#8 ·
Damn this is a great matchup. Hard to make a choice here, I don't want to see either of these guys come out with an L here.

I'll go with Kawajiri. Guy has seriously heavy hands and a very competent ground game.

Plus he made such short work of my boy Ebanez who is actually a solid LW in his own right. I thought that it would be much closer.
 
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I'll go with Kawajiri. Guy has seriously heavy hands and a very competent ground game.
The Crusher comes through again.
 
#12 ·
meh, i got JZ all the way, i dont see how Kawajiri can compete with JZ on this.

Standup, he will get murdered, and JZ is so big and he defends takedowns well.. even if he was down, i dont think Kawajiri will keep him down long.
 
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