BUSHIDO VOLUME 2: CHUTE BOXE VS JAPAN!

LOS ANGELES – The fight card for PRIDE FC: BUSHIDO VOLUME 2 is coming together and headlining

the event will be a team competition, pitting the Chute Boxe Team of Brazil (led by Wanderlei Silva)

against Team Japan!  BUSHIDO VOLUME 2 will take place on February 15th, 2004 from the Yokohama

Arena in Japan and is scheduled to debut on North American pay per view on March 21st, 2004.

BUSHIDO VOLUME 2 will feature a three-man team competition, as the Chute Boxe Team will be taking on

Team Japan.  Headed by reigning PRIDE FC World Middleweight Champion and 2003 Grand Prix

Champion Wanderlei Silva, the Chute Boxe Team of Brazil is one of the most successful fight teams in the

world.  In his first match since winning the Middleweight Grand Prix title in November of 2003 (which

included victories over Hidehiko Yoshida and Quinton “Rampage” Jackson on the same night), Silva

will be taking on Ikuhisa “The Punk” Minowa of Japan.  Minowa, now training with the Brazilian Top

Team, is coming off a hard-fought loss to Quinton Jackson at SHOCKWAVE 2003.  In the other team

matches, Mauricio “Shogun” Rua (the younger brother of Murilo “Ninja” Rua) will be taking on

Japanese shoot fighter Akihiro Gono and up and coming Chute Boxe star Jadson Costa will compete

against a yet to be named Japanese opponent.

Also scheduled to appear on the fight card, Japanese legend and fighting star Hayato “Mach” Sakurai

and PRIDE FC veteran Daiju Takase.

PRIDE FC: BUSHIDO VOLUME 2

Fight Card:

Chute Boxe (Brazil) vs. Team Japan

Wanderlei Silva (Brazil) vs. Ikuhisa “The Punk” Minowa (Japan)

Mauricio “Shogun” Rua (Brazil) vs. Akihiro Gono (Japan)

Jadson Costa (Brazil) vs. TBA

Additional Matches:

Hayato “Mach” Sakurai (Japan) vs. TBA

Daiju Takase (Japan) vs. TBA

More fights to be announced soon!

(Fight Card Subject to Change)

PRIDE FC: BUSHIDO VOLUME 2 will premiere on North American pay per view through iNDEMAND,

DIRECTV, DISH NETWORK, UrbanXtra, TVN1, Bell Express Vu, and Viewer’s Choice on Sunday, March

21st, 2004.  The premiere time is 9:00pm EST, 6:00pm PST and the count down show is at 8:30pm EST,

5:30pm PST.  The event will be available at a reduced rate of $19.95.  For additional replay times, please

contact your pay per view provider or pridefc.com. 

For more information on PRIDE FC, visit pridefc.com!

- From Dream Stage Entertainment (with a little editing from us - highlights, color, etc...)

(1/20/04)