PRIDE 29

 

February 20, 2005

Saitama Super Arena - 4pm

Saitama, Japan

 

TOKYO, Japan –

Five match-ups have been announced for PRIDE FIGHTING’S FISTS OF FIRE fight card.  Headlining the

event will be a clash of fighting styles as striker Mirko “Cro Cop” Filipovic takes on wrestler Mark “The

Hammer” Coleman.  Also on the card, Quinton “Rampage” Jackson returns to the ring facing Chute

Boxe’s Murilo “Ninja” Rua ... Antonio Rogerio Nogueira of the Brazilian Top Team will go head to head

with Golden Glory’s Alistair “Demolition Man” Overeem … and it’s Korea versus Russia as Choi Mu Bae

takes on Sergei Kharitonov.

 

FISTS OF FIRE will take place from the Saitama Super Arena in Japan and is scheduled to debut on North

American pay per view via iNDEMAND, DIRECTV, DISH Network, TVN, Vu!, and Viewer’s Choice on Friday,

February 25th, 2005 at 10:00pm EST, 7:00pm PST. 

 

 

                                            

                                                    “Cro Cop”          Mark Coleman

                   

        “Rampage”             Murilo Rua

 

                                            

                                               Alistair Overeem       A. Rogerio

                                                             Nogueira

 

            

   Sergei Kharitonov        Choi Mu Bae

 

 

 

FIGHT CARD

 Mirko “Cro Cop” Filipovic (Croatia) vs. Mark “The Hammer” Coleman (USA)

Quinton “Rampage” Jackson (USA) vs. Murilo “Ninja” Rua (Brazil)

Antonio Rogerio Nogueira (Brazil) vs. Alistair Overeem (Holland)

Choi Mu Bae (Korea) vs. Sergei Kharitonov (Russia)

Igor Vovchanchyn (Ukraine) vs. Yoshiki Takahashi (Japan) 

 

Also on the card: Ryan Gracie, Hirotaka Yokoi, Mauricio “Shogun” Rua, and Kazuhiro Nakamura

 

Fightcard subject to change.

 

 

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

 

 

(1/27/05)