DREAM has officially announced their upcoming schedule for 2009 and dropped the names of their featherweight Grand Prix participants. The Grand Prix is set to kick off on March 8 at DREAM 7 and will run concurrent with a welterweight Grand Prix of which the participants have yet to be announced. We'll get those names for you as soon as they become available, but in the mean time, take a look at what you can expect from DREAM in 2009.

DREAM 2009 Schedule:

March 8th: DREAM 7 - Featherweight GP 1st Round (Saitama Super Arena)

April 5th: DREAM 8 - Welterweight GP 1st Round (Nippon Gaishi Hall)

May: DREAM 9 - Featherweight GP 2nd Round (Somewhere in Kanto)

July 20th: DREAM 10 - Welterweight GP Finals (Saitama Super Arena)

September: DREAM 11 - Featherweight GP Finals (Somewhere in Kanto)

October: DREAM 12 (TBD)
December 31st: Dynamite!! (Saitama Super Arena)

Featherweight Grand Prix Participants:

• Masakazu Imanari
  
  Hiroyuki Takaya
  
  Takafumi Otsuka
  
  Hideo Tokoro
  
  Wicky Akiyo
  
  Atsushi Yamamoto
  
  Bibiano Fernandes
  
  Micah Miller
  
  Chase Beebe
  
  Joe Warren
  
  Kim Jong Won
  
  Shoji
  
  DJ Taiki