PRIDE 32
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Pride 32: The Real Deal was a mixed martial arts
event and was held by the Pride Fighting Championships. The event took place on October 21, 2006, at the Thomas & Mack Center
in Las Vegas, Nevada
.
Marvin Eastman
was scheduled to face Kazuhiro Nakamura, but a contract dispute with the World Fighting Alliance
prevented Eastman from taking part. Eastman was replaced by Travis Galbraith.
Mark Hunt
was originally announced to be fighting Eric Esch
in an MMA match. But the NSAC would not allow Hunt to fight Esch as they argued that Hunt’s wins over Wanderlei Silva and Mirko Filipovic gave him an unfair mat advantage. Pride had stated that "visa issues" were preventing Hunt from competing in the bout, but it was later confirmed that Hunt could not compete due to the NSAC's ruling. Hunt was replaced by Sean O'Haire
.
Wanderlei Silva
was also expected to fight at the event, but was barred by the NSAC as Silva had been knocked out one month prior.
Mirko "Cro Cop" Filipović
had also been thought to fight at this event, as he was seen in the earlier Pride 32 promotional poster http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/archive/c/c6/20061021074446%21Pride-32.jpg. However, he was unfit to fight as he had injured his foot in a previous match in an earlier Pride event.
The fight between Phil Baroni and Yosuke Nishijima was ruled a submission victory, though Nishijima did not tap out. The referee in charge ended the fight in order to protect Nishijima from injury. The match was therefore ruled a Technical Submission.
After the event, Vitor Belfort and Pawel Nastula both tested positive for banned substances; Nastula for nandrolone
and Belfort for 4-hydroxytestosterone. Kevin Randleman also provided a dubious urine sample, of which was stated "It was either allegedly non-human urine or urine from a dead human being," by the NSAC.
Disclosed Fighter Payroll: $935,000
Mixed martial arts
Mixed Martial Arts is a full contact combat sport that allows the use of both striking and grappling techniques, both standing and on the ground, including boxing, wrestling, Brazilian jiu-jitsu, muay Thai, kickboxing, karate, judo and other styles. The roots of modern mixed martial arts can be...
event and was held by the Pride Fighting Championships. The event took place on October 21, 2006, at the Thomas & Mack Center
Thomas & Mack Center
The Thomas & Mack Center is an arena, located on the campus of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. For ring events, the capacity is 19,522, for basketball, the capacity is 18,776.-History:...
in Las Vegas, Nevada
Las Vegas, Nevada
Las Vegas is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Nevada and is also the county seat of Clark County, Nevada. Las Vegas is an internationally renowned major resort city for gambling, shopping, and fine dining. The city bills itself as The Entertainment Capital of the World, and is famous...
.
Background
This was the first Pride event to be held outside of Japan. Since the event took place in Nevada, Pride had to modify its rules to follow Nevada's version of the Unified Rules of Mixed Martial Arts for this event. Pride followed Nevada's MMA rules for the most part, however they prohibited elbows to the head. Matches were three rounds of five minutes each, and if a match went the distance, it would be judged by Nevada's 10-point must system with Nevada State Athletic Commission (NSAC) judges, which was different from Pride's own judging criteria.Marvin Eastman
Marvin Eastman
Marvin Lee Eastman is an American mixed martial artist with a background in collegiate wrestling and Muay Thai. He is currently the light heavyweight champion of the Elite Fighting Championship and the IFO champion...
was scheduled to face Kazuhiro Nakamura, but a contract dispute with the World Fighting Alliance
World Fighting Alliance
The World Fighting Alliance was a mixed martial arts organization based in the United States.Originally owned and organized by MMA Legend and trainer John Lewis and nightclub operator and "Club Rubber" promoter John Huntington along with Lawyer Louis Palazzo , the WFA began promoting events after...
prevented Eastman from taking part. Eastman was replaced by Travis Galbraith.
Mark Hunt
Mark Hunt
Mark Hunt ; is a New Zealand kickboxer and mixed martial artist of Samoan descent, currently living in Sydney, Australia. Hunt competes in the Ultimate Fighting Championship and is known for his raw strength, iron chin and knockout power. He won the K-1 World Grand Prix 2001 Final...
was originally announced to be fighting Eric Esch
Eric Esch
Eric Scott Esch is an American heavyweight boxer, kick-boxer, professional wrestler, and mixed martial artist commonly referred to as Butterbean....
in an MMA match. But the NSAC would not allow Hunt to fight Esch as they argued that Hunt’s wins over Wanderlei Silva and Mirko Filipovic gave him an unfair mat advantage. Pride had stated that "visa issues" were preventing Hunt from competing in the bout, but it was later confirmed that Hunt could not compete due to the NSAC's ruling. Hunt was replaced by Sean O'Haire
Sean O'Haire
Sean Christopher Haire is an American mixed martial artist and former professional wrestler, better known by his ring name, Sean O'Haire.-World Championship Wrestling:...
.
Wanderlei Silva
Wanderlei Silva
Wanderlei César da Silva , nicknamed "The Axe Murderer", is a Brazilian mixed martial artist, who has competed in Japan's Pride Fighting Championships and the American based Ultimate Fighting Championship . Silva is known for his aggressive fighting style with the majority of his fights ending in...
was also expected to fight at the event, but was barred by the NSAC as Silva had been knocked out one month prior.
Mirko "Cro Cop" Filipović
Mirko Filipovic
Mirko Filipović is a former Croatian heavyweight kickboxer, mixed martial artist, politician, and law enforcement officer. Filipović was a member of the Croatian Parliament from 2003 through 2007...
had also been thought to fight at this event, as he was seen in the earlier Pride 32 promotional poster http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/archive/c/c6/20061021074446%21Pride-32.jpg. However, he was unfit to fight as he had injured his foot in a previous match in an earlier Pride event.
The fight between Phil Baroni and Yosuke Nishijima was ruled a submission victory, though Nishijima did not tap out. The referee in charge ended the fight in order to protect Nishijima from injury. The match was therefore ruled a Technical Submission.
After the event, Vitor Belfort and Pawel Nastula both tested positive for banned substances; Nastula for nandrolone
Nandrolone
Nandrolone is an anabolic steroid that may be present naturally in the human body, albeit in minute quantities of less than 0.4 ng/ml. Nandrolone is most commonly sold commercially as its decanoate ester and less commonly as a phenylpropionate ester...
and Belfort for 4-hydroxytestosterone. Kevin Randleman also provided a dubious urine sample, of which was stated "It was either allegedly non-human urine or urine from a dead human being," by the NSAC.
Results
- Middleweight bout:
Joey VillasenorJoey VillasenorJoey Villaseñor is a Mexican American mixed martial arts fighter. He is a PRIDE Fighting Championships veteran, as well as the middleweight champion in King of the Cage. Joey has also fought in Showtime's EliteXC promotion and took part in PRIDE's welterweight grand prix. He currently trains...
vs. Robbie LawlerRobbie LawlerRobert Glen "Robbie" Lawler is an American mixed martial artist Lawler was the EliteXC middleweight champion before EliteXC filed for bankruptcy. Lawler has recently signed with Strikeforce. He is a member of Team Hughes fighting out of H.I.T...
- Lawler defeated Villasenor by KO (flying knee) at 0:22 of round 1.
- Light Heavyweight bout:
Kazuhiro NakamuraKazuhiro NakamuraKazuhiro Nakamura is a Japanese mixed martial artist currently competing as a middleweight in DREAM. His primary style is judo, in which he holds a 3rd dan black belt under Hidehiko Yoshida...
vs.
Travis Galbraith
- Light Heavyweight bout:
- Nakamura defeated Galbraith by TKO (strikes) at 1:16 of round 2.
- Catchweight (195lb) bout: Phil BaroniPhil BaroniPhilip George Baroni is an American mixed martial artist. He has a professional MMA record of 14–14–0. Baroni has fought in the Ultimate Fighting Championship where he holds a record of 3–7–0. Also he has fought in the PRIDE FC where he holds a record of 4–2–0...
vs. Yosuke NishijimaYosuke NishijimaYōsuke "Yōsukezan" Nishijima is a Japanese professional boxer who has also competed in kickboxing and mixed martial arts.-Career:...
- Catchweight (195lb) bout:
- Baroni defeated Nishijima by submission (kimura) at 3:20 of round 1.
- Light Heavyweight bout: Dan HendersonDan HendersonDaniel Jeffery Henderson, is an American mixed martial artist and former Olympic wrestler, who competes as a middleweight and light heavyweight in the Ultimate Fighting Championship. He is the former Strikeforce Light Heavyweight Champion and was the last Welterweight and Middleweight champion...
vs.
Vitor BelfortVitor BelfortVítor Vieira Belfort is a Brazilian mixed martial artist and former UFC Light Heavyweight Champion. Belfort was born in Rio de Janeiro and studied jiu-jitsu with the Gracie family, namely Carlson Gracie. He received a black belt under Carlson and currently trains with Xtreme Couture, fighting in...
- Light Heavyweight bout:
- Henderson defeated Belfort by unanimous decision (30–27, 30–27, 30–24).
- Super Heavyweight bout: Eric "Butterbean" EschEric EschEric Scott Esch is an American heavyweight boxer, kick-boxer, professional wrestler, and mixed martial artist commonly referred to as Butterbean....
vs. Sean O'HaireSean O'HaireSean Christopher Haire is an American mixed martial artist and former professional wrestler, better known by his ring name, Sean O'Haire.-World Championship Wrestling:...
- Super Heavyweight bout:
- Esch defeated O'Haire by TKO (strikes) at 0:29 of round 1.
- Heavyweight bout: Josh BarnettJosh BarnettJoshua Lawrence Barnett is an American mixed martial artist and professional wrestler who currently fights in the heavyweight division of Strikeforce. Barnett has been an accomplished fighter in mixed martial arts, winning the UFC Heavyweight Championship and the King of Pancrase Openweight...
vs.
Pawel NastulaPawel NastulaPaweł Marian Nastula is a Polish judoka and mixed martial artist. He was the 1995 and 1997 Judo World Champion, and 1996 gold medallist at the Olympic Games in Atlanta, Georgia, USA, winning those titles in the U95kg weight category.-Judo career:Paweł started training Judo at the age of 10 at AZS...
- Heavyweight bout:
- Barnett defeated Nastula by submission (toe hold) at 3:04 of round 2.
- Light Heavyweight bout: Mauricio RuaMauricio RuaMaurício Milani Rua is a Brazilian mixed martial artist fighting in the Ultimate Fighting Championship where he is a former UFC Light Heavyweight Champion...
vs. Kevin RandlemanKevin RandlemanKevin Christopher Randleman is a retired American mixed martial arts fighter and a former UFC heavyweight champion. Randleman's background is in Collegiate wrestling. Wrestling at 177 pounds, Randleman was a two time Division I NCAA Champion for The Ohio State University...
- Light Heavyweight bout:
- Rua defeated Randleman by submission (kneebar) at 2:35 of round 1.
- Heavyweight bout:
Fedor EmelianenkoFedor EmelianenkoFedor Vladimirovich Emelianenko) is a Russian heavyweight mixed martial artist. He has won numerous tournaments and accolades in multiple sports, most notably the Pride 2004 Grand Prix and the World Combat Sambo championship on four occasions, as well as medaling in the Russian national Judo...
vs. Mark ColemanMark ColemanMark Coleman is an American mixed martial artist, professional wrestler, former NCAA collegiate wrestler and former Olympic amateur wrestler. In MMA, he was the UFC 10 and UFC 11 tournament champion, the first Ultimate Fighting Championship heavyweight champion, and the Pride Fighting...
- Heavyweight bout:
- Emelianenko defeated Coleman by submission (armbar) at 1:15 of round 2.
Fighter Payouts
- Fedor Emelianenko: $300,000
- Mark Coleman: $70,000
- Josh Barnett: $60,000
- Dan Henderson: $150,000
- Kevin Randleman: $40,000
- Vitor Belfort: $130,000
- Eric "Butterbean" Esch: $30,000
- Mauricio "Shogun" Rua: $65,000
- Pawel Nastula: $20,000
- Phil Baroni: $15,000
- Yosuke Nishijima: $15,000
- Sean O'Haire: $15,000
- Kazuhiro Nakamura: $10,000
- Robbie Lawler: $10,000
- Joey Villasenor: $3,000
- Travis Galbraith: $2,000
Disclosed Fighter Payroll: $935,000