PRIDE Announces 1st 10 Fighters For USA Debut
 

Dream Stage Entertainment has announced the first ten official fighters to take compete at their North American debut.

PRIDE's parent company have announced that their October 21st The Real Deal card from Las Vegas, Nevada will feature a wide array of the company's top talent, including many of their prominent American fighters. International fighters scheduled for competition are PRIDE heavyweight champion Fedor Emelianenko, Mauricio "Shogun" Rua, Mirko "CroCop" Filipovic, Kazuyuki Fujita, Kazuhiro Nakamura, and Pawel Nastula.

The American fighters now scheduled to compete at PRIDE's North American debut are Josh Barnett, and the Hammer House trio of Mark Coleman, Kevin Randleman, and Phil Baroni.

Dream Stage Entertainment Presents PRIDE 32: THE REAL DEAL
October 21st, 2006
Thomas and Mack Center
Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Doors Open: 16:00
Fights Start 18:00

Scheduled To Participate:
Fedor Emelianenko (Red Devil Sport Club)
Mauricio Rua (Chute Boxe)
Mirko Filipovic (CroCop Squad Gym)
Kazuyuki Fujita (Freelance)
Josh Barnett (AMC Pankration)
Mark Coleman (Hammer House)
Kevin Randleman (Hammer House)
Phil Baroni (Hammer House)
Kazuhiro Nakamura (Yoshida Dojo)
Pawel Nastula (Takada Dojo)

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I hope Barnett gets relicensed and everything is taken care of.I'd hate to see Barnett pull a Kimo.Looks to be pretty good.I think Pride is trying to brake away from Japan since they lost there TV deal and all the other scandal surrounding them over there.

You know where tickets will be available ? Like ticketmaster ?

Thanks

Shogun and Fedor...im happy.

sounds great, cant wait. i hope the coming of pride forces ufc to sign better, and more international fighters, and have better ppv's, and maybe one day a champ vs champ ppv. this could be the start.

i hope the uk will be able to order this or at least get to watch it on some channel

Where's Wanderlei?
 

Where's Wanderlei on this card? If he is not fighting Chuck, shouldn't they put him in this?:confusedsmilie: I am happy about Fedor , though.

looking at those fighters i`m glad i passed on the $50 nose bleed seats!
replays alone and a short run to the john is worth 50 dollars.
i want something close.

wait till the las vegas fans get a load of cro cop!!! prides taken over ladies!!!

Nah man, Pride still sells out stadiums, you have to remember they have had the best fihgters in the world for as long as they have been an organization, well before the TV deal. They still had Kerr, Rickson, Sak, Igor, etc. and were still able to pay their fighters a lot of money so they will always be ok. Look at what they are expecting, 100,000 people and seats as high as $700.00 each.

I thinkn they might hold the record for biggest MMA even attendence (either them or K-1) as they have had 90,000+ people in a stadium for an event, UFC is doing what 20,000 people per event?

PRIDE is not worried about the scandal or the Fuji TV deal falling through, they have always gotten by with or without TV support.