PRIDE Bushido 9

Lightweight Grand Prix Match-ups Announced

September 25, 2005

Ariake Colosseum

Tokyo, Japan

PRIDE Bushido “The Tournament” is scheduled to debut on North American Pay-Per-View via iNDemand,

DirectTV, Dish Network, UrbanXtra, TVN1, VU!, and Viewer’s Choice Canada on Sunday, September 25th,

2005 at 9pm  ET, 6pm PT. Bushido “The Tournament” will be available at a reduced rate of $24.95.

Line-up (not in fight order):

Fight 1 - Lightweight GP Tournament Reserve Bout - added

Dokonjonosuke Mishima vs. Charles "Krazy Horse" Bennett

Fight 2 - Lightweight GP Tournament - Bracket A - added

Takanori Gomi vs. Tatsuya Kawajiri

Fight 3 - Lightweight GP Tournament - Bracket A - added

Naoyuki Kotani vs. Luiz Azeredo

Fight 4 - Lightweight GP Tournament - Bracket B - added

Hayato "Mach" Sakurai vs. Jens Pulver

Fight 5 - Lightweight GP Tournament - Bracket B - added

Yves Edwards vs. Joachim Hansen

Fight 6 - Lightweight GP Tournament Semi Final Bout - Bracket A - added

Winners of Bracket A face off

Fight 7 - Lightweight GP Tournament Semi Final Bout - Bracket B - added

Winners of Bracket B face off

Fight 8 - Welterweight GP Tournament Reserve Bout

Paulo Filho vs. Ryuta Sakurai

Fight 9 - Welterweight GP Tournament - Bracket A

Phil Baroni vs. Minowa Ikuhisa

Fight 10 - Welterweight GP Tournament - Bracket A

Masanori Suda vs. Murilo Bustamante

Fight 11 - Welterweight GP Tournament - Bracket B

Ryo Chonan vs. Dan Henderson

Fight 12 - Welterweight GP Tournament - Bracket B

Akihiro Gono vs. Daniel Acacio

Fight 13 - Welterweight GP Tournament Semi Final Bout - Bracket A

Winners of Bracket A face off

Fight 14 - Welterweight GP Tournament Semi Final Bout - Bracket B

Winners of Bracket B face off

Subject to change

(9/1/05)