Pride FC News

More bouts announced for Pride Bushido. They just added 4 more lightweight fights in addition to the quarterfinal matches in the welterwight Grand Prix tournament on August 26th. Lightweight Matches: Tatsuya Kawajiri (17-3-2) vs. Chris "The Westside Strangler" Brennan (18-10-1) Gilbert Melendez (10-0-0) vs. Nobuhiro Obiya (6-0-1) Shinya Aoki (5-2-0) vs. Jason Black (20-1-1) Hatsu Hioki (9-1-1) vs. Jeff "The Big Frog" Curran (23-7-1) For the Welterweights, the fights are as follows: Dan "Hollywood" Henderson (20-4-0) vs. Kazuo Misaki (16-6-2) Ryo "Piranha" Chonan (12-6-0) vs. Paulo Filho (12-0-0) Gegard Mousasi (13-1-1) vs. Akihiro Gono (25-11-7) Denis Kang (22-7-1) vs. Amar Suloev (21-5-0) And 1 other fight has been announced. Eric "Butterbean" Esch (6-1-1) vs. Ikuhisa "The Punk" Minowa (33-24-8) The last fight between the Punk and Butterbean ought to be interesting. If you remember back to K-1 Dynamite in 2003, Genki "Neo Samurai" Sudo submitted Butterbean with a heel hook. So we will see if Butterbean has worked on his ground game since then....

UFC News

Another fight has been announced for the upcoming UFC PPV, which showcase two middleweights. David "The Soul Assassin" Terrell (6-2-0) will face a Pride Veteran, Yushin Okami (16-3-0) who is also making his UFC debut. The other two fights scheduled are the Main Event, Chuck "The Iceman" Liddell vs. Renato "Babalu" Sobral and the Forrest Griffin taking on Stephan Bonnar in a Ultimate Fighter Rematch. Other news on the card can be found here. The upcoming Ultimate Fight 6 event to be shown on Spike TV on August 17th has been announced as well. Here are the fights as of now (with any sport, the card is subject to change) Diego "The Nightmare" Sanchez (15-0-0) vs. Karo Parisyan (15-3-0) in the Main Event. (Welterweight fight) Chris Leben (15-2-0) vs. Jorge Santiago (11-5-0) (Middleweight) Dean Lister (8-4-0) vs. Yuki Sasaki (20-12-1)(Middleweight) Josh Koscheck (6-1-0) vs. Jonathan Goulet (16-6-0) (welterweight) Jake O'Brien vs. Kristof "The Hurricane" Midoux (5-5-0) (heavyweight) Pat "Bam Bam" Healy (15-9-0) vs Anthony "The Crush" Torres (3-0-0) (welterweight) Crafton Wallace (9-1-1) vs. Kalib Starnes (7-0-1) (middleweight) Jason Von Flue (11-5-1) vs. Joe "Diesel" Riggs (24-8-0)(welterweight) Sam "The Squeeze" Morgan (18-7-0) vs. Forrest Petz (11-2-0) (welterweight)