Josh Barnett signs with DREAM
by Zak Woods on Mar 2, 2010 8:00 AM EST
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MMA Weekly reports that Josh Barnett has signed a contract with DREAM.
For weeks there have been rumors that Barnett would be apart of DREAM's March 22nd show, though the Japanese promotion has struggled to find an opponent for Josh. The fight was reportedly offered to Antonio Silva and Tim Sylvia who both turned it down. Antonio passed in hopes of a fight in Strikeforce this May (it was just announced that Silva will fight Andrei Arlovski) while Sylvia's status is up in the air as he is connected to two other fights in late March.
Barnett has been in limbo since failing a pre-fight steroid test in August of 2009. That positive test caused the Affliction: Trilogy fight card to fall apart and the promotion to close shop. Josh announced that he planned to appeal the test though the hearing has been delayed four times.
No word on a possible opponent for Barnett thought Pedro Rizzo, Jeff Monson and Aleksander Emelianenko are available while DREAM has Sergei Kharitonov under contract.
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HMM
I wonder if this is why Fedor is holding out, so that he can possibly fight Barnett in Dream?
All of this cross promotion debacle, really makes my head spin.
Dont really understand how it works completety, so I dont even know if it is possible, Wish the fighters contracts were public information so we wouldnt have to specualte so much. But maybe this is why we come to these sights so much, out of curiosity.
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