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Two Bouts Added
April 3, 2005 Yokohama Arena Yokohama, Japan
PRIDE has added two more bouts to their April 3rd Bushido card - ZST GP 1 champion Marcus Aurelio will face DEEP veteran Daisuke Nakamura while fellow DEEP veteran Takahiro Oba will take on SuperBrawl veteran Dennis Kang. Previously announced, current PRIDE heavyweight champion Fedor Emelianenko will go up against the current Super Heavyweight King of Pancrase champion Tsuyoshi Kosaka. The card will also feature a four-man middleweight tournament with the winner receiving entry into the PRIDE middleweight Grand Prix just 20 days later. The tournament will feature PRIDE Bushido veterans Dean Lister against Akira Shoji and Amar Suloev against Paulo Filho. Also on the card, PRIDE veteran Ricardo Morais will battle Aleksander Emelianenko, brother of heavyweight champion Fedor Emelianenko. Bushido veteran Ikuhisa Minowa will take on "The Hurricane" Gilbert Yvel. DEEP veteran Ryuta Sakurai takes on Brazilian Top Team member Murilo Bustamante. Bushido veteran Luis Buscape will fight Chute Boxe team member Luiz Azeredo while fellow Chute Boxe team member Daniel Acacio faces PRIDE veteran Daiju Takase.
Line-up: Fight 1 - added Takahiro Oba vs. Dennis Kang
Fight 2 - PRIDE Middleweight GP Tournament Qualifier Amar Suloev vs. Paulo Filho
Fight 3 - PRIDE Middleweight GP Tournament Qualifier Dean Lister vs. Akira Shoji
Fight 4 - added Daisuke Nakamura vs. Marcus Aurelio
Fight 5 Luis Buscape vs. Luiz Azeredo
Fight 6 Daiju Takase vs. Daniel Acacio
Fight 7 Ricardo Morais vs. Aleksander Emelianenko
Fight 8 Ryuta Sakurai vs. Murilo Bustamante
Fight 9 Ikuhisa Minowa vs. Gilbert Yvel
Fight 10 - PRIDE Middleweight GP Tournament Qualifier Final Winner of Fight 2 vs. Winner of Fight 3
Fight 11 Fedor Emelianenko vs. Tsuyoshi Kosaka
Card subject to change
(3/23/05)
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