Eight Fighters Announced For

PRIDE Fighting's Total Elimination 2005

 

April 23, 2005

Osaka Dome

Osaka, Japan

 

 

TOKYO, Japan –

Eight of the sixteen participants have been announced for PRIDE FIGHTING’S 2005 Middleweight Grand

Prix … TOTAL ELIMINATION 2005.

 

Included is defending Grand Prix Champion (2003) Wanderlei Silva, the Brazilian Top Team’s Antonio

Rogerio Nogueira, Grand Prix Finalist (2000) Igor Vovchanchyn, Japanese hero Kazushi Sakuraba,

Chute Boxe’s rising star Mauricio “Shogun” Rua, Pancrase star Yuki Kondo, Grand Prix Semi-Finalist

(2003) Hidehiko Yoshida, and Yoshida protégé Kazuhiro Nakamura.

 

Wanderlei Silva

Kazushi Sakuraba

Mauricio “Shogun” Rua

Yuki Kondo

 

Antonio Rogerio Nogueira

 

Kazuhiro Nakamura

 

 Igor Vovchanchyn

 

Hidehiko Yoshida

 

PRIDE FIGHTING’S 2005 Middleweight Grand Prix Tournament will span three events … TOTAL

ELIMINATION (opening round), CRITICAL COUNTDOWN (Second Round) and FINAL CONFLICT (Semi-

Finals and Finals).   Dates for the latter two events will be announced soon.

 

TOTAL ELIMINATION 2005 takes place on April 23rd, 2005 from the Osaka Dome in Japan and premieres

on North American pay per view via iNDEMAND, DIRECTV, DISH NETWORK, UrbanXtra, TVN1, VU!, and

Viewer’s Choice Canada on April 23rd at 10:00pm EST, 7:00pm PST (including a countdown show at 9:30pm

EST, 6:30pm PST).  For additional replay times, please contact your pay per view provider or pridefc.com. 

 

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

 

 

Card subject to change

 

 

 

(3/8/05)