Akihiro Gono is only one of six to  beat the DREAM Light Heavyweight Champion and former Strikeforce Light Heavyweight Champion that was born in this year?
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Akihiro Gono Akihiro Gono (郷野聡寛 , Gōno Akihiro ) (born October 7, 1974) is a Japanese mixed martial artist. He is best known for his clever and deceptive fighting style, and for his flashy ring entrances. His fighting style is characterized by skillfully avoiding strikes, using fast counter punches and generally getting the opponent to fight his way. He is one of only four men to beat Bellator Middleweight Champion Hector Lombard, and one of six to beat the DREAM Light Heavyweight Champion and former Strikeforce Light Heavyweight Champion Gegard Mousasi.
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Gegard Mousasi Gegard Mousasi (born 1 August 1985), is a Dutch mixed martial artist and former kickboxer currently competing in Bellator MMA. He is the former DREAM Light Heavyweight Champion, former DREAM Middleweight Champion, former Cage Warriors World Middleweight Champion and the former Strikeforce Light Heavyweight Champion, thus making Mousasi a four-time World Champion. At the moment of his departure from UFC in July 2017, he was #4 in the official UFC middleweight rankings.
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Alonzo Martinez Alonzo Martinez (born April 22, 1984) is an American professional mixed martial arts fighter. Alonzo has fought twice for Bellator Fighting Championships as a lightweight and once with Strikeforce as a welterweight (though it was contested at a 160 lb catchweight). Martinez has been an MMA fighter for over eleven years, with notable fights against Toby Imada, and UFC vets Estevan Payan, Yves Edwards, and Yaotzin Meza. He is also known for his submission expertise, with 22 of his 36 career wins coming by submission.
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Eiji Mitsuoka Eiji Mitsuoka (光岡 映二 , Mitsuoka Eiji , born January 1, 1976) is a Japanese professional mixed martial artist. Mitsuoka is a Dream veteran and has fought for the UFC, World Victory Road, Pride, Shooto, Deep and King of the Cage promotions. Mitsuoka's nickname Kanaami no Mōshigo (金網の申し子 ) , which translates as "The Heaven-sent Child of the Cage" was given in reference to his earlier career in King of the Cage and his performance in Cage Force.
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Antônio Rodrigo Nogueira Antônio Rodrigo Nogueira (] , born June 2, 1976), better known as Minotauro, is a semi-retired Brazilian mixed martial artist known for his technical mastery of Brazilian jiu-jitsu. He won most of his fights via submissions. He competed in the heavyweight division of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), where he is a former Interim UFC Heavyweight Champion. He is the twin brother of UFC fighter Antônio Rogério Nogueira. Nogueria rose to prominence in the Japanese promotion Pride Fighting Championships, where he was the first Pride Heavyweight Champion from November 2001 to March 2003, as well as a 2004 PRIDE FC Heavyweight Grand Prix Finalist. He is one of only three men to have held championship titles in both Pride Fighting Championships and the Ultimate Fighting Championship (the others being Mauricio Rua and Mark Coleman).
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Mike Hayes (fighter) Michael Hayes (born October 16, 1980) is an American mixed martial artist. He has fought for Strikeforce, Bellator Fighting Championships and is a former Cage Warriors Heavyweight Champion.
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Takashi Koshimoto Takashi Koshimoto (越本 隆志, born January 5, 1971, in Fukuoka, Japan) is a former Japanese professional boxer in the featherweight (126 lb) division. He is a former WBC world featherweight champion.
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Hayato Sakurai Hayato Sakurai (桜井 速人 , "Sakurai Hayato" , マッハ "Mahha", born August 24, 1975) is a Japanese mixed martial artist. A professional competitor since 1996, he has formerly competed for the UFC, PRIDE, DREAM, Shooto, Vale Tudo Japan, DEEP, and participated in the Yarennoka!, Dynamite!! 2008, Dynamite!! 2009, Dynamite!! 2010, and events. Sakurai finished second (Silver) in the Absolute Class (no weight limit) ADCC Submission Wrestling World Championship in 1999 at just under 77 kg. During the height of his career in 2000 and 2001 he was considered to be one of the top pound for pound fighters in MMA. He is the former Shooto Middleweight Champion.
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Joachim Hansen (fighter) Joachim B. Hansen (born 26 May 1979) is a Norwegian mixed martial artist. He began his career fighting for FinnFight before moving on to fight for Shooto where he became the first Scandinavian person to hold an MMA world title after winning the Shooto World Lightweight Championship in 2003 from Takanori Gomi. Hansen later fought for the Pride Fighting Championship and most recently Dream where he became the Dream Lightweight Champion after winning the Dream 5: Lightweight Grand Prix 2008 Final Round but then lost the title to Shinya Aoki at Dream 11. After a record of 19–9–1 Hansen suffered his first defeat by knockout to Japanese fighter Hiroyuki Takaya at Dream 14.
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Israel Adesanya Israel Mobolaji Adesanya (born July 22, 1989) is a Nigerian born-New Zealand kickboxer. As of 24 July 2017, he is ranked the #6 middleweight in the world by LiverKick.com.
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Josh Thomson Joshua Joseph Thomson (born September 21, 1978) is an American mixed martial artist who currently competes in Bellator MMA's lightweight division. A professional competitor since 2001, Thomson has also competed in PRIDE, Strikeforce, UFC, the World Fighting Alliance, and appeared at Dynamite!! 2010. Thomson is a former Strikeforce World Lightweight Champion and a former Strikeforce U.S. Lightweight Champion.
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Randall Bailey Randall Bailey (born September 13, 1974) is an American professional boxer. A veteran of the sport for over twenty years, he is a former two-weight world champion, having held the WBO light welterweight title from 1999 to 2000, and the IBF welterweight title in 2012. Additionally, he held the WBA interim light welterweight title in 2002. Nicknamed "The Knock-Out King", Bailey is widely considered to be one of the hardest punchers in boxing.
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Rafael Cavalcante Rafael Cavalcante (born April 5, 1980) is a Brazilian mixed martial artist who fights in the light heavyweight division. He is currently a free agent. He trains with Anderson Silva and Antônio Rodrigo Nogueira as part of the Black House camp. He formerly competed in Strikeforce, where he was at one time Strikeforce Light Heavyweight Champion. His nickname "Feijão" (] ) means "bean" in Portuguese. Rafael was known as the first man to have defeated former UFC number-one middleweight contender, Yoel Romero.
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Tadashi Mihara Tadashi Mihara (三原 正 , Mihara Tadashi , born 30 March 1955 in Gunma, Japan) is a former professional boxer who competed as a light middleweight throughout his career.
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James Irvin (fighter) James Lee Irvin (born September 12, 1978) is an American professional mixed martial artist currently competing in the Middleweight division of Bellator MMA. A professional competitor since 2003, Irvin is the former WEC Heavyweight Champion and has also competed in the UFC, Strikeforce and KSW.
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Jan Nortje Johannes "Jan" Nortje (born 11 April 1975) is a South African professional kickboxer, mixed martial artist and undefeated pro boxer who has fought for Strikeforce, DREAM, K-1, Inoki Genome Federation, PRIDE Fighting Championship and New Japan Pro Wrestling.
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Miguel Cotto Miguel Ángel Cotto Vázquez (born October 29, 1980) is a Puerto Rican professional boxer. He has held the WBO light middleweight title since August 2017, and has held six world championships, being the first boxer from Puerto Rico to win world titles in four weight classes. As of September 2017, Cotto is ranked as the world's second best best active light middleweight by BoxRec, third by "The Ring" magazine, and seventh by the Transnational Boxing Rankings Board. In 2007 and 2009 he reached a peak pound for pound ranking of seventh by "The Ring".
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Joe Soto Joseph Angel Soto (born March 22, 1987 in Porterville, California) is an American professional mixed martial artist currently competing in the Bantamweight division of the Ultimate Fighting Championship. A professional competitor since 2006, Soto has also formerly competed for Bellator where he was the first Bellator Featherweight Champion and winner of their inaugural Featherweight Tournament. He is also the former Tachi Palace Fights Bantamweight Champion.
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Mitsuhiro Ishida Mitsuhiro Ishida (石田光洋, born December 29, 1978) is a retired Japanese mixed martial artist who has competed in Shooto, Strikeforce, PRIDE, DREAM, and DEEP. A professional competitor since 2001, Ishida also participated in the Yarennoka event in the Saitama Super Arena in Japan.
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Daniel Geale Daniel Geale (born 26 February 1981) is an Australian professional boxer. He is a former unified middleweight champion, having held the IBF middleweight title from 2011 to 2013, and the WBA (Super) title in 2012. Additionally he held the IBO middleweight title from 2007 to 2009. As an amateur, Geale won a gold medal in the welterweight division at the 2002 Commonwealth Games.
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Hiromitsu Miura Hiromitsu Miura (born September 22, 1981) is a Japanese Boxer and former mixed martial artist who competed in the welterweight division in MMA and now competes in the light heavyweight division in boxing.
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Houston Alexander Houston Alexander (born March 22, 1972) is an American professional mixed martial artist, who currently competes in Bellator's Light Heavyweight division. A professional competitor since 2001, Alexander has also competed for the UFC, Shark Fights, the RFA, and KSW.