from mmaweekly.com

Pride Announces Details of Grand Prix 2003

On June 25th, DSE announced 7 fighters who are fighting in the upcoming middleweight tournament, PRIDE GP 2003 (to be held on August 10th in Saitama Super Arena).

Kazushi Sakuraba
Hidehiko Yoshida
Vanderlei Silva
Quinton "Rampage" Jackson
Chuck Liddel
Ricardo Arona
Alistair Overeem

The other name will be announced later and there are many rumors who it could be. One name that we know it most likely WON'T be is a Gracie family member.

MMAWeekly's Scott Petersen reports from Japan that from what he has heard from his contacts is that a Gracie will not fight and it will be another Japanese fighter. Some people believe Yuki Kondo will be the replacement, but no official word has been given from DSE.

Meanwhile the wrestlingobserver said quote that UFC President
Dana White was at the PRIDE FC Grand Prix press conference..."saying Liddell was going to win the tournament for UFC and that UFC has declared war on Pride."

its a shame igor won't be in it.

Originally posted by Cesaro
its a shame igor won't be in it.

Why can't he be in it? Is he secretly a Gracie?

Is gonna be Yuki Kondo. Maybe Sanae Kikuta, let's hope is Kondo.

Kondo would be good

it's gonna be ryan gracie....... believe me guys.... I have very good sources (who were present at the pride press conference) saying it's gonna be Ryan Gracie.

I guess you're pretty confident about your sources. Everyone else is saying that Ryan is out.

this si gonna be so good!

YES IT IS.

Try reading agian, we know it most likely WON'T be is a Gracie family member.....

I cant wait for this. Im gonna **** my ****ing pants when it happens. If cassie wants to marry me now she better have to deal with a night of ****filled shorts I tell ya

I wish it would be Igor, although I highly doubt it. The card is already so stacked though that it doesn't even matter that much at this point, it just can't get much better.

Roward Gracie is rumored to fight at GP...his first MMA experiece to

"Curly" Roward Gracie?

HAHAHA No....I like the brain cells I have left

Now MMAweekly is reporting that Tamura might be the last fighter in the tourney since most the japanese fans want him in.

But it's MMAweekly, so who knows.

They could put the karate kid in and it still wouldn't hurt this any

Originally posted by Curly Howard
They could put the karate kid in and it still wouldn't hurt this any


Very true

If Tamura gets in, he's probably gonna fight Saku in the first round. Saku will advance with not much effort, giving him a little bit of an advantage over his next opponent