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It was the finals of the 2003 PRIDE Middleweight Grand Prix Tournament, what many call the greatest tournament in MMA history. Rampage racked up hard fought wins over Murilo Bustamante and UFC’s Chuck Liddell (with Dana White on ...

By ben — Sengoku 7 (1/4/09; Saitama, Japan) will feature the organization’s first-ever middleweight championship match between Kazuo Misaki and this year’s middleweight grand prix winner Jorge Santiago. Takanori Gomi is also slated to face lightweight tournament winner Satoru Kitaoka. (...

By MMAmania The Canadian with South Korean roots was a participant in the Dream Middleweight Grand Prix 2008, losing to eventual tournament winner Gegard Mousasi via submission (triangle choke). He was an early favorite to win it all before getting upset by the slick Armenian.

By Jesse Holland Headlining the show and coming up short was one of Japan’s most popular fighters, Takanori Gomi. “The Fireball Kid” looked like his old self with dominant position and repeated submission attempts throughout the first round. Middleweight Grand Prix finals:

By Jesse Holland Takanori Gomi (29-3) vs. Sergey Golyaev (10-6) Lightweight Grand Prix semifinals: Lightweight Grand Prix reserve bout: Lightweight Grand Prix finals: Middleweight Grand Prix semifinals: Middleweight Grand Prix reserve bout: Middleweight Grand Prix finals:

In our latest MMAjunkie.com and HDNet's DREAM.6 video release, we take a look at at a middleweight grand prix semifinal bout between Zelg Galesic and Ronaldo "Jacare" de Souza. Earlier this year, Galesic defeated Taiei Kin and Magomed Sultanakhmedov to earn a spot in the semifinal, while d...

By Jesse Holland World Victory Road has just completed its fifth installment featuring a middleweight grand prix and a pair of mixed martial arts debuts. Sengoku 5 took place on September 28 at the Yoyogi National Gymnasium in Tokyo, Japan. Heavyweight Fight:

We’re talking about the finals of the middleweight grand prix, one of the things that makes many of us think of the old PRIDE organization when we see this new DREAM outfit. Of course, the real draw in this one may be the match between ...

By Jesse Holland Middleweight Grand Prix Reserve Bout: Yoon Dong Sik (4-5) vs. Andrews Nakahara (0-1) Middleweight Grand Prix Semi-Finals: “Marvelous” Melvin Manhoef (22-4-1) vs. Gegard “Armenian Assassin” Mousasi (22-2-1) Zelg “Benkei” Galesic (9-3) vs. Ronaldo “Jacare” Souza (9-1)

By Kris Karkoski World Victory Road today announced additional matchups for Sengoku 5, which takes place on September 28th at the Yoyogi National Gymnasium in Tokyo, Japan. The opening round of the promotion’s middleweight grand prix is now set as UFC and PRIDE veteran Kazuhiro Nakamura will meet Paul C...

By CagE 23 middleweight grand prix finals show from the Saitama Super Arena. DREAM announced, Mirko Cro Cop will take on Alistar Overeem in the main event superfight. Also announced, PRIDE veteran Sergei Kharitonov will take on K-1’s Siala ...

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By Jesse Holland Concluding the middleweight grand prix is tournament favorite “Marvelous” Melvin Manhoef (22-4-1) who will be facing Jurojin pupil Gerard Mousasi (22-2-1). Manhoef is coming off a devastating TKO win over Japanese icon Kazushi Sakuraba at DREAM 4 back in June and is the winner of five s...

By noreply@blogger.com (al bundy team) The rest of the DREAM card will feature bouts from the close of the DREAM Middleweight Grand Prix, which will have their semi-finals and finals contested. An alternate bout for the tournament will also be fought. The final four in the Middleweight Grand Prix are Gegard Mousasi, who will fac...

By John Chandler Former PRIDE middleweight grand-prix runner-up Denis Kang has revealed that he will be taking on former IFO light heavyweight champion Marvin Eastman at a scheduled Raw Combat show on October 25th in Canada. ...

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 NY - Rua, winner of the PRIDE 2005 middleweight grand prix, informed a very unsuspecting but grateful crowd that he was indeed anticipating a December return and ...