DREAM 5 Light Weight Grandprix 2008 Final Round
- Lightweight match
Daisuke Nakamura vs. 
Andy Ologun- Nakamura defeated Ologun by submission (armbar) at 1:19 of round 1.
- Lightweight Grand Prix Semi Final
- Shinya Aoki vs. Caol Uno
- Aoki defeated Uno by round 2 unanimous decision (3–0).
- Lightweight Grand Prix Semi Final
Eddie Alvarez vs. Tatsuya Kawajiri- Alvarez defeated Kawajiri by TKO (punches) at 7:35 of round 1.
- Lightweight Grand Prix reserve match
Joachim Hansen vs. 
Kultar Gill- Hansen defeated Gill by submission (armbar) at 2:33 of round 1.
- Featherweight match
- Joseph Benavidez vs. Junya Kudo
- Benavidez defeated Kudo by submission (guillotine choke) at 2:42 of round 1.
- Welterweight match
- Motoki Miyazawa vs. Kuniyoshi Hironaka
- Hironaka defeated Miyazawa by TKO (medical stoppage due to cut) at 8:57 of round 1.
- Featherweight match
- Hideo Tokoro vs. Takeshi Yamazaki
- Tokoro defeated Yamazaki by round 2 unanimous decision (3–0).
- Middleweight match
- Yoshihiro Akiyama vs. Katsuyori Shibata
- Akiyama defeated Shibata by submission (gi choke) at 6:34 of round 1.
- Heavyweight match
Alistair Overeem vs. 
Mark Hunt- Overeem defeated Hunt by submission (keylock) at 1:11 of round 1.
- Lightweight Grand Prix Final
- Shinya Aoki vs. Joachim Hansen*
- Hansen defeated Aoki by TKO (punches) at 4:19 round 1 to become the first Dream Lightweight Champion.
* Hansen replaced Alvarez due to a cut received in his fight with Kawajiri.
2008 Lightweight Grand Prix bracket
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Shinya Aoki | W Dec | ||||||||||||||||
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Gesias Calvancanti | |||||||||||||||||
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Shinya Aoki | W Sub | ||||||||||||||||
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Katsuhiko Nagata | |||||||||||||||||
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Katsuhiko Nagata | W Dec | ||||||||||||||||
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Artur Oumakhanov | |||||||||||||||||
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Shinya Aoki | W Dec | ||||||||||||||||
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Caol Uno | |||||||||||||||||
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Mitsuhiro Ishida | W Dec | ||||||||||||||||
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Jung Bu-Kyung | |||||||||||||||||
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Mitsuhiro Ishida | |||||||||||||||||
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Caol Uno | W Sub | ||||||||||||||||
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Caol Uno | |||||||||||||||||
| Bye | ||||||||||||||||||
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Shinya Aoki | |||||||||||||||||
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Joachim Hansen** | W TKO | ||||||||||||||||
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Eddie Alvarez | W TKO | ||||||||||||||||
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Andre “Dida” Amade | |||||||||||||||||
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Eddie Alvarez | W Dec | ||||||||||||||||
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Joachim Hansen | |||||||||||||||||
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Joachim Hansen | W Dec | ||||||||||||||||
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Koutetsu Boku | |||||||||||||||||
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Eddie Alvarez | W TKO | ||||||||||||||||
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Tatsuya Kawajiri | |||||||||||||||||
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Tatsuya Kawajiri | W Dec | ||||||||||||||||
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Kultar Gill | |||||||||||||||||
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Tatsuya Kawajiri | W Dec | ||||||||||||||||
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Luiz Firmino | |||||||||||||||||
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Luiz Firmino | W Sub | ||||||||||||||||
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Kazuyuki Miyata | |||||||||||||||||
** Replacement.
Dream Lightweight Grand Prix Reserve Bouts:
- Joachim Hansen def. Kultar Gill at DREAM.5