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[Matt Boone]

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PRIDE's official Japanese website has confirmed the opponent for Takanori Gomi for the upcoming Bushido 12 show, which features the second round of the Welterweight Grand Prix tournament.

The Lightweight champion Gomi will battle PRIDE newcomer David Baron in a non-tournament bout.

With that now known, here is the official final line-up for the PRIDE Bushido show which emanates from the Nagoya Rainbow Hall on August 26th, airing in the U.S. on free television on the FOX Sports Net channel.

-Dan Henderson vs. Kazuo Misaki
-Ryo Chonan vs. Paulo Filho
-Akihiro Gono vs. Gegard Mousasi
-Denis Kang vs. Amar Suloev
-Takanori Gomi vs. David Baron
-Tatsuya Kawajiri vs. Chris Brennan
-Gilbert Melendez vs. Nobuhiro Obiya
-Jason Black vs. Shinya Aoki
-Jeff Curran vs. Hioki Hatsu
-Butterbean vs. Ikuhisa Minowa
-Hayato Sakurai vs. Luciano Azevedo
-Mitsuhiro Ishida vs. Cristiano Marcello

[NinjaShogunRua]

Pretty good card from top to bottom. I don't know much about Baron except that he won the 2 Hot 2 Handle:Road To Japan Tourney to get into Pride. He is 10-1 overall and is the Shooto Europe Middleweight Champion.

[SASK_MMA]

IM not gonna lie i have never ordered a pride event on payperveiw, but my question is does pride show all the fights? i know ufc only shows 4-5 so what about pride ?

[NinjaShogunRua]

Originally Posted by SASK_MMA

IM not gonna lie i have never ordered a pride event on payperveiw, but my question is does pride show all the fights? i know ufc only shows 4-5 so what about pride ?

this isn't a PPV event. It's gonna be on FSN for free. This will be the 1st time Pride has aired an event 1st run on FSN. The past Bushido events have been PPV. It will be edited down to 2 hours w/commercials, so we won't see all the fights on FSN.

To answer your last question, yes Pride usually shows all of their matches on their PPVs. There have been a couple of times where they leave out a match or 2. At last year's Shockwave they left out about 4 or 5 matches which caused a big internet uproar amongst the angry fans. Since then they haven't made that mistake again.

[Alvin]

No Tyson Griffin?????

[NinjaShogunRua]

Originally Posted by Alvin

No Tyson Griffin?????

nope, that rumor has turned false. I hope he really is signed to Pride though. He would be a great addition to Bushido.

[stalker]

since its on fsn and edited is anybody here going to ask pride to show the rest of the event on fsn on a later date?

ufc and pride the same night-


Jason Black i haven`t seen fight and Sakurai has impressed me after looking like a weak fighter against hughes.
i guess we`ll see hendo&gp fighters and then if theres time gomi-
butterblimp can hit but i don`t want to see him unless its on a card filmed at a local airport with richard simmons headlining. the card is A plus- if i had 34.99 i would buy the full card.

thanks for the editing info Ninja

[SASK_MMA]

Originally Posted by NinjaShogunRua

this isn't a PPV event. It's gonna be on FSN for free. This will be the 1st time Pride has aired an event 1st run on FSN. The past Bushido events have been PPV. It will be edited down to 2 hours w/commercials, so we won't see all the fights on FSN.

To answer your last question, yes Pride usually shows all of their matches on their PPVs. There have been a couple of times where they leave out a match or 2. At last year's Shockwave they left out about 4 or 5 matches which caused a big internet uproar amongst the angry fans. Since then they haven't made that mistake again.

FSN? IN CANADA WE GOT TSN ?..LOL