King of the Ring...No Longer

This is truly exciting for MMA fans. DREAM, the major MMA promotion in Japan, has decided to ditch the tradition fighting ring in favor a hexagonal cage, at least for this one event. As most of us know, most major MMA promotions in America (UFC, Strikeforce) use a cage. By doing this, many questions will be answered about how styles of fighters who have fought in Japan, in rings, their entire careers will translate to a cage. Mirko "Cro Cop" Filipovic couldn't get used to a cage, and Mauricio "Shogun" Rua even admitted that it took him a few fights to get used to the cage. I had no doubt in my mind the big names would come out victorious (Overeem, Alvarez, Zaromskis, and Sakuraba), but I still thought it would be interesting to see how their styles translated to a cage, and clearly it did not effect them that much. Perhaps this was a way to get their fighters accustomed to cage fighting, since Strikeforce and DREAM now have somewhat of a partnership. I also think it would be a fun idea for DREAM to continue using the cage at other events as well.