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[Matt Boone]

OK so the quarterfinals are confirmed as follows:

-Silva/Fujita
-CroCop/Yoshida
-Hunt/Barnett
-Nog/Werdum

Make your picks and then do an updated bracket based on your picks. For me it'd be:

-Silva
-CroCop
-Barnett
-Nog

I'd hope for Silva/CroCop II and Nog/Barnett (an old dream match of mine)

With those I'd say CroCop and Nog in the finals, with Nog winning the whole kit and kaboodle.

As I wrote this though it got a lot more complicated than I thought it would. Go ahead everyone, first instinct just finish the tournament in your head and write it down for everyone to see.

[Alvin]

Fujita
Crocop
Hunt
Nog

Semi:

Fujita Vs Hunt
Crocop Vs Nog

Final:
Crocop Vs Hunt III (Crocop has a stipulation that he's not aloud to run away again!!!)

[Intellectual]

my predictions:

Silva
Cro Cop
Hunt
Nog

Final: Cro Cop vs Nog

i want Cro Cop to take this, but it's a close fight.

[killerinstinct]

nog
hunt
crocop
silva

semifinal
crocop vs. silva
hunt vs. nog

final
crocop vs. nog

winner
nog

[Afro]

im gonna be a lil diff here, go out on a limb

Silva
Yoshida
Hunt
Nog

Silva v. Yoshida

Hunt vs Nog

Silva vs Hunt

Winner = Hunt

[Alvin]

Originally Posted by Afro Samurai

im gonna be a lil diff here, go out on a limb

Silva
Yoshida
Hunt
Cro-Cop

Silva v. Yoshida

Hunt vs Cro-Cop

Silva vs Hunt

Winner = Hunt

That is different Yoshida is fighting Cro-cop in the quarter-finals!

[Afro]

Originally Posted by Alvin

That is different Yoshida is fighting Cro-cop in the quarter-finals!

crap and I was thinkin about that the whole time lol and still messed it up.

there changed it, my bad.

[NinjaShogunRua]

My predictions are the exact same as Boone's. I suck at predictions so you are screwed Boone. lol

I pick Wand because I think he will land more efficient strikes and will be much quicker than most guys Fujita is used to fighting. I don't think Wanderlei will knock Fujita out, but I think he will do enough damage to win. I want Fujita to win, but it will take some good take downs and ground and pound to pull it out. His take downs didn't look so good in the Thompson fight.

I got Cro Cop over Yoshida because of his superior stand up and his sprawl that continues to improve. Yoshida has a submissions chance, but I don't see him keeping Cro Cop on the ground long enough to pull one off.

Hunter vs Barnett sucks for me because I am a fan of both fighters and they are probably my 2 favorite HW in Pride. I think this fight will be similar to Barnett's fight with Aleks. I see Barnett taking some shots in the stand up and eventually getting a take down and submitting Hunt. Hunt could definitely win with his superior striking, but Barnett can also take a shot. I don't really see him trying to go toe to toe with Hunt like TK did.

The Werdum/Nog match will be interesting. 2 BJJ experts going at it. I'm going with Nog because of his experience and his striking advantage. Werdum has looked much better in the striking area lately, but he can't match Nog in that area. It will be tough for either of these guys to pull of a submission on eachother, probably be a stalemate on the ground.

[mattsoper]

Wandy
crocop
hunt
nog

Crocop...I'm hoping will take this tourney

[nsb7873]

Silva/Fujita
-silva by repeated stomps.

CroCop/Yoshida
-cro cop my LHK

Hunt/Barnett
-i like hunt, but barnet will sub hunt

Nog/Werdum
-werdum is a good grappler, but not a good mma grappler. Big NOG is the greatest mma grappler of all time. NOG will TKO or KO werdum. but would love to see an anaconda or triangle choke applied on werdum. how awesome would that be.

that leaves, silva, cro cop, barnett, and big nog.
i wanna see big nog vs. barnett and silva vs. cro cop II/ this is another threat after critical countdown.