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I've been seeing threads on here where people have been putting down the next Pride event because both Crocop and Fedor (toe injury?) were out of the card and said it was worthless and not even worth buying.

But this is probably one of the most star studded Pride cards this whole year, its combining both upper and lower (Bushido) divisions of Pride and it has the best of the best on them.

I would buy this card if they didn't even announce any more fights! The level of quality is just that high and they're still going to announce more fights that include top fighters.

This is not a UFC vs Pride thread, please don't think of it that way either. UFC has offered great events and awesome free events and yet people still bash them which is ludicrus.


Already been announced
Gilbert Melendez vs Tatsuya Kawajiri
Joachim Hansen vs Shinya Aoki
Mauricio Shogun vs Nakamura Kazuhiro
Mitsuhiro Ishida vs Takanori Gomi
Kiyoshi Tamura vs Ikuhisa Minowa

Announced to Participate:
Josh Barnett
Wanderlei Silva
Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira
Hidehiko Yoshida
Kazuyuki Fujita
Dan Henderson
Kazuo Misaki
Akihiro Gouno
Sanae Kikuta
Hayato Sakurai
Ricardo Arona
Denis Kang

As you can see, this card is aimed towards the Japanese obviously but shouldn't discredit how good of a card this is, sure it could've been better with Crocop/Fedor but they wouldn't have even been fighting each other but its still a great card.

I could name 15 fighters that are in the top 10 in their weight class off of the top of my head just by looking at the list of fighters, now that is just amazing for one event.