| Pride Total Elimination Absolute | ||||
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| Promotion | Pride Fighting Championships | |||
| Date | May 5, 2006 | |||
| Venue | Osaka Dome | |||
| City | Osaka | |||
| Pay-per-view chronology | ||||
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Pride Total Elimination Absolute was a mixed martial arts event held by the Pride Fighting Championships. It took place at the Osaka Dome in Osaka, Japan on May 5, 2006.
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This event featured the first round of Pride's 2006 open-weight tournament. Seven tournament matches were held along with one alternate match. The seven winning participants advanced to the second round, Pride Critical Countdown Absolute. The winner of the alternate bout will take the place of any fighter who is unable to participate in subsequent matches.
Pride Heavyweight Champion and 2004 Heavyweight Grand Prix winner Fedor Emelianenko was originally set to enter the tournament with a first round bye, but a hand injury prevented him from participating.
Wanderlei Silva, then current Pride middleweight champion, received a bye into the second round.
| Opening round PRIDE Total Elimination Absolute |
Quarterfinals PRIDE Critical Countdown Absolute |
Semifinals | Final | |||||||||||
| Aleksander Emelianenko | SUB | |||||||||||||
| Josh Barnett | ||||||||||||||
| Mark Hunt | TKO | |||||||||||||
| Tsuyoshi Kohsaka | ||||||||||||||
| Alistair Overeem | SUB | |||||||||||||
| Fabricio Werdum | ||||||||||||||
| Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira | SUB | |||||||||||||
| Zuluzinho | ||||||||||||||
| Mirko Filipović | TKO | |||||||||||||
| Ikuhisa Minowa | ||||||||||||||
| Hidehiko Yoshida | SUB | |||||||||||||
| Yosuke Nishijima | ||||||||||||||
| Kazuyuki Fujita | KO | |||||||||||||
| James Thompson | ||||||||||||||
| Fedor Emelianenko | BYE | |||||||||||||
1Fedor Emelianenko was given a bye into the next round.
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