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Schilt returning on New Year's Eve

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FEG and Dream on Tuesday added more bouts to the Dec. 31 Fields Dynamite!! fight card, including multiple time K-1 kickboxing champion Semmy Schilt in his return to mixed martial arts.

Focused more on K-1 recently, Schilt will be fighting only his second MMA bout in the past two years. He fought in January of this year, knocking out a relatively unknown opponent on a fight card in Serbia.

Schilt will face Siala "Mighty Mo" Siliga. Mo has only three professional MMA bouts to his credit, winning all three by TKO or knockout, and this will mark his first MMA action in a year and a half.

Schilt has 40 professional bouts on his resume, dating back to 1996.

The two have fought before under K-1 kickboxing rules. Schilt defeated Mo by decision in a K-1 super heavyweight title bout in June 2007.

Other bouts announced for Dec. 31 include Hideo Tokoro vs. Daisuke Nakamura under MMA rules and Yoshihiro Sato vs. Artur Kyshenko in a K-1 kickboxing bout.

There are also two previously announced high profile lightweight MMA bouts on the card. Joachim Hansen, who won the Dream Lightweight Grand Prix earlier this year, will fight Gesias "JZ" Calvancante and Shinya Aoki will square off with Eddie Alvarez.