PRIDE Final Conflict 2003

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PRIDE Final Conflict 2003
Details
Promotion	PRIDE
Date	November 9, 2003
Venue	Tokyo Dome
City	Tokyo, Japan
Event chronology
PRIDE Bushido 1	PRIDE Final Conflict 2003	PRIDE Shockwave 2003

PRIDE Final Conflict 2003 was a mixed martial arts event held by PRIDE Fighting Championships. It took place at the Tokyo Dome in Tokyo, Japan on November 9, 2003 and had over 67,450 people in the audience. This event was host to the semi-finals and finals of the 2003 PRIDE Middleweight Grand Prix tournament. The first round of the tournament was contested at the PRIDE Total Elimination 2003 event the previous August.

[edit] Results

[edit] Tournament semifinal matches

[edit] Quinton Jackson vs. Chuck Liddell

Quinton Jackson advanced to the finals by defeating Chuck Liddell by TKO 3:10 into Round 2. Liddell's corner threw in the towel.

[edit] Wanderlei Silva vs. Hidehiko Yoshida

Wanderlei Silva was victorious in a unanimous decision over Hidehiko Yoshida.

[edit] Tournament finals

[edit] Quinton "Rampage" Jackson vs. Wanderlei Silva

Reigning PRIDE Middleweight Champion Wanderlei Silva won the 2003 PRIDE Middleweight Grand Prix by defeating Quinton Jackson in the finals. At 6:28 in the first round, Silva was declared the winner by TKO after he connected with many consecutive standing knee strikes to the head.

[edit] Other matches

[edit] Dan Bobish vs. Gary Goodridge

Goodridge won by TKO over Bobish in only 18 seconds. The referee stopped the fight as Goodridge attacked Bobish with a flurry of punches.

[edit] Murilo Bustamante vs. Dan Henderson

Dan Henderson knocked out Murilo Bustamante after 53 seconds of action. As Bustamante was going for a takedown, Henderson caught him in the head with a knee strike and followed up with punches on the ground.

[edit] Heath Herring vs. Yoshihisa Yamamoto

Heath Herring choked out Yoshihisa Yamamoto at 2:29 in Round 3, getting the submission victory.

[edit] Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira vs. Mirko Filipovic

Nogeira won by submission over the previously undefeated Crocop. Nogueira locked Crocop in an armbar 1:45 into Round 2.

[edit] Kevin Randleman vs. Kazushi Sakuraba

Sakuraba defeated Randleman by submission with an armbar 2:36 into Round 3.

[edit] PRIDE 2003 Middleweight Grand Prix Bracket

[edit] Comentators

UFC President Dana White provided color commentary for the Quinton Jackson/Chuck Liddell bout, in support of UFC representative Liddell. Dana had made a $250,000 bet with Nobuyuki Sakakibara that Liddell would win the whole tournament. However, after Liddell lost to Quinton Jackson, Dana changed the terms of the bet that Liddell would have had to beat Wanderlei Silva in order for the bet to be in place. Randy Couture, at the time UFC Light-Heavyweight Champion, provided color commentary for the main event, in which Wanderlei Silva battled Quinton Jackson in the tournament finals. This was not the only time Couture was involved with the event - he and Bas Rutten, both former UFC Heavyweight Champions, provided a promo about the oft-discussed UFC vs Pride rivalry due to Liddell's participation. In the promo, Couture "choked out & spanked" Rutten for calling him an "old man".

[edit] See also

• List of PRIDE events
• PRIDE Total Elimination 2003

[edit] External links

• Official PRIDE Website