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Two middleweight bouts have been added to this month's DREAM.12 event, the Japanese-based organization today announced.

Melvin Manhoef (23-6-1) takes on Zelg Galesic (9-4), and Paulo Filho (18-1) meets Dong Sik Yoon (4-7) at the upcoming event.

DREAM.12, DREAM's first-ever event to use a cage (rather than a roped ring), takes place Oct. 25 at Osaka Castle Hall in Osaka, Japan. The event airs on HDNet in North America.

Manhoef, who recently suffered a K-1 unanimous-decision loss to Remy Bonjasky, looks to snap a recent MMA skid. After posting a five-fight win streak with five first-round stoppages, Manhoef has gone just 1-2 in his past three fights with submission losses to both Gegard Mousasi and Filho.

He looks to fight the ship against Galesic, who's three-fight winning streak came to a recent end with a first-round submission loss to Ronaldo Souza at DREAM.6 in 2008. The former PRIDE and Cage Rage fighter competes for the first time in 13 months.

Filho, meanwhile, looks to sustain his recent momentum. After the WEC middleweight champion closed out his career in the organization with a bizarre non-title loss to Chael Sonnen (Filho failed to make weight for the fight and seemed dazed throughout the bout), the Brazilian has since rebounded for victories over Manhoef (submission) at DREAM.10 and Alex Schoenauer (decision) at Bitetti Combat.

He now meets Yoon, one of the streakiest fighters in MMA. After opening his MMA career with four straight losses, the former Korean judoka standout posted four consecutive wins only to then drop his past three, which included a first-round submission loss (due to injury) to Jesse Taylor at DREAM.10 in July.

For the latest on DREAM.12, including the latest rumored fight card, stay tuned to the MMA Rumors section of MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com).

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