PRIDE Bushido 9

Welterweight Grand Prix Match-ups Announced

September 25, 2005

Ariake Colosseum

Tokyo, Japan

PRIDE FC announced the match-ups for the opening round of their welterweight Grand Prix tournament.

Bouts are scheduled for two rounds: first round - 10 minutes, second round - five minutes.

Line-up (not in fight order):

Fight 1 - Welterweight GP Tournament Reserve Bout

Paulo Filho vs. Ryuta Sakurai

Fight 2 - Welterweight GP Tournament - Bracket A

Phil Baroni vs. Minowa Ikuhisa

Fight 3 - Welterweight GP Tournament - Bracket A

Masanori Suda vs. Murilo Bustamante

Fight 4 - Welterweight GP Tournament - Bracket B

Ryo Chonan vs. Dan Henderson

Fight 5 - Welterweight GP Tournament - Bracket B

Akihiro Gono vs. Daniel Acacio

Expected to participate in Lightweight GP Tournament:

- Takanori Gomi

PRIDE's list of possible fighters for the lightweight GP tournament:

- Hayato "Mach" Sakurai

- Tatsuya Kawajiri

- Naoyuki Kotani

- Dokonjonosuke Mishima

- Jens Pulver

- Yves Edwards

- Ralph Gracie

- Luiz Azeredo

- Luiz "Buscape" Firmino

- Charles "Krazy Horse" Bennett

- Joachim Hansen

Subject to change

(8/18/05)