Silva A No Go For Sunday's Pride 34 |
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Dancing Mod With Tha HAND
Career record: 194-134
Season: 31-21 (#3708)
Location: Maryland
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Former PRIDE Middleweight Champion Wanderlei Silva could not be medically cleared in time and will not participate on Sunday’s PRIDE 34 “Kamikaze” roster.
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I can't find this anywhere else, but Loretta has never been wrong on stuff like this before.
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Last edited 4/7/07 10:10AM by zephead
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Post #1 4/7/07 9:59:02AM
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Jamie98s
MMA Regular
Career record: 200-123
Season: 36-23 (#1783)
Location: Dalton,GA
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Aw man, That fight with Igor would have been great. grrrr
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Post #2 4/7/07 10:31:38AM
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creativedestruction
MMA Regular
Career record: 236-111
Season: 48-22 (#404)
Location: A1A Beachfront Avenue
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thanks for that. Typical Pride nonsense.
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Post #3 4/7/07 10:33:35AM
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Manfred
MMA Sensei
Career record: 216-125
Season: 47-22 (#185)
Location: Brasov, Romania
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Good. He needs a longer break, especially against strikers
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Post #4 4/7/07 11:08:30AM
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creativedestruction
MMA Regular
Career record: 236-111
Season: 48-22 (#404)
Location: A1A Beachfront Avenue
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And, when will the wager money from this fight be freed up?
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Post #5 4/7/07 11:11:56AM
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BIGKAT
MMA Regular
Career record: 156-102
Season: 26-21 (#4417)
Location: World Wide
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Well, he HAS been kind of busy.................
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Post #6 4/7/07 11:48:51AM
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Jamie98s
MMA Regular
Career record: 200-123
Season: 36-23 (#1783)
Location: Dalton,GA
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lol
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Post #7 4/7/07 12:01:54PM
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MMA_Fan
Learning to Sprawl
Career record: 78-47
Season: 0-0 (#-)
Location: mma-fighter.com!
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MMAweekly.com has confirmed that the fight will not take place. Here is what they said:
In a very emotional press conference in Japan for Dream Stage Entertainment's final Pride event – the promotion was recently purchased by Frank and Lorenzo Fertitta, the owners of the Ultimate Fighting Championship and World Extreme Cagefighting – DSE president Nobuyuki Sakikabara announced a proposed fight for Wanderlei Silva will not take place.
On just a few hours notice, Pride was able to secure Akihiro Gono to take on Gilbert Yvel. A visibly moved Gono was proud to be able to participate on DSE's final Pride event. Yvel originally was scheduled to face Bazigit Atajev, but he had to withdraw due to an "internal disease."
Sakikabara didn't stop there though. In his final moments as head of Pride, he announced that his final fight card may not yet be finished, "I am still working on surprises for [the] show. We have the official announcement of eight matches, but I am still working on giving you one more or maybe two more fights because that is the last thing that I can give you as the promoter of this Pride. So please look forward to a big surprise."
There has been no word on what or rather who those surprises may be.
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Post #8 4/7/07 5:34:42PM
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