BUSHIDO VOLUME 2 … FULL FIGHT CARD

LOS ANGELES – The fight card for PRIDE FC: BUSHIDO VOLUME 2 is complete and headlining the event

will be a team competition, pitting the Chute Boxe Team of Brazil (led by Wanderlei Silva) against Team

Japan!  BUSHIDO VOLUME 2 will take place on February 15th, 2004 from the Yokohama Arena in Japan

and is scheduled to debut on North American pay per view on March 21st, 2004.

BUSHIDO VOLUME 2 will feature a three-man team competition, as the Chute Boxe Team will be taking on

Team Japan.  Headed by reigning PRIDE FC World Middleweight Champion and 2003 Grand Prix Champion

Wanderlei Silva, the Chute Boxe Team of Brazil is one of the most successful fight teams in the world.  In

his first match since winning the Middleweight Grand Prix title in November of 2003 (which included victories

over Hidehiko Yoshida and Quinton “Rampage” Jackson on the same night), Silva will be taking on

Ikuhisa “The Punk” Minowa of Japan.  Minowa, now training with the Brazilian Top Team, is coming off a

hard-fought loss to Quinton Jackson at SHOCKWAVE 2003.  In the other team matches, Mauricio

“Shogun” Rua (the younger brother of Murilo “Ninja” Rua) will be taking on Japanese shoot fighter

Akihiro Gono and up and coming Chute Boxe star Jadson Costa will compete against Takanori Gomi,

who boasts an impressive record of 13-2 and fights out of the Kiguchi Dojo in Japan.

Additional matches on the fight card include: Japanese legend Hayato “Mach” Sakurai against

submission expert and rising star, Rodrigo Gracie … the “Zen Master” Mario Sperry returns to take on

a tough opponent in Mike “Batman” Bencic (representing Mirko “Crop Cop” Filipovic’s Cro Cop Squad

Gym) … American star Chris “The Westside Strangler” Brennan makes his second BUSHIDO

appearance, this time taking on PRIDE FC veteran Daiju Takase … in a battle of veterans from the Rings

organization, Yasuhito Namekawa of Japan faces Egidijus Valabicius of Lithuania … and finally Ryuki

Ueyama of the U-File camp will take on a yet to be announced opponent.

PRIDE FC: BUSHIDO VOLUME 2

Fight Card

Chute Boxe (Brazil) vs. Team Japan

Wanderlei Silva (Brazil) vs. Ikuhisa “The Punk” Minowa (Japan)

Mauricio “Shogun” Rua (Brazil) vs. Akihiro Gono (Japan)

Jadson Costa (Brazil) vs. Takanori Gomi (Japan)

Additional Matches:

Hayato “Mach” Sakurai (Japan) vs. Rodrigo Gracie (Brazil)

Mario Sperry (Brazil) vs. Mike "Batman" Bencic (USA)

Daiju Takase (Japan) vs. Chris Brennan (USA)

Yasuhito Namekawa (Japan) vs. Egidijus Valabicius (Lithuania)

Ryuki Ueyama (Japan) vs. TBA

(Fight Card Subject to Change)

PRIDE FC: BUSHIDO VOLUME 2 will premiere on North American pay per view through iNDEMAND,

DIRECTV, DISH NETWORK, UrbanXtra, TVN1, Bell Express Vu, and Viewer’s Choice on Sunday, March

21st, 2004.  The premiere time is 9:00pm EST, 6:00pm PST and the count down show is at 8:30pm EST,

5:30pm PST.  The event will be available at a reduced rate of $19.95.  For additional replay times, please

contact your pay per view provider or pridefc.com. 

- From Dream Stage Entertainment (with a little editing from us - highlights, color, etc...)

(1/27/04)