From MMAweekly.......

MMAWeekly's Scott Petersen reports from Japan that Sakuraba will be cleared medically to fight at Pride 25. Here's the interesting part. The doctors were a bit reluctant to have him fight on the card because he needs a bit more time to heal from previous injuries.

Pride defintely wants him on the card, so it looks as though they will monitor Sakuraba's progress by giving him a "tune up" fight and if he looks physically good in this upcoming Pride, they will set up a fight between Sakuraba and Dan Henderson.

Henderson told MMAWeekly last night that he was hoping to fight Sakuraba at Pride 25, but that medically Sakuraba wasn't at 100% so their fight will have to wait.

So pretty much Sak is going to fight some jobber at Pride 25(Hopefully it wont take him 3 rounds to finish him this time) then they are going to set up a fight between him and Hendo possibly at Pride 26.....

Awesome news!

I would rather Sak take the time to get healthy again rather than have a tune up against a lesser opponent which will only get some japanese asses on seats for the Pride people.

I share the same opinion seldom Tap, wasn't Arsene a tune up, and that obviously didn't go so hot. Eventually, he's gotta fight Murilo Bustamante, that's all i really want to see.

Busta v Sak = possible best fight ever IMO

If it was to happen today, I would say Busta by sub