Pride Total Elimination Absolute
| Pride Total Elimination Absolute | ||||
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 A poster or logo for Pride Total Elimination Absolute. | ||||
| Information | ||||
| Promotion | Pride Fighting Championships | |||
| Date | May 5, 2006 | |||
| Venue | Osaka Dome | |||
| City | Osaka | |||
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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.
Background
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 his bye into the second round.
Results
| Open-Weight Grand Prix 1st Round | |||||||
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| Weight class | Method | Round | Time | Notes | |||
| Heavyweight | Hidehiko Yoshida | def. | Yosuke Nishijima | Submission (Triangle Choke) | 1 | 2:33 | |
| Antônio Rodrigo Nogueira | def. | Wagner da Conceicao Martins | Submission (Armbar) | 1 | 2:17 | ||
| Mirko Filipović | def. | Ikuhisa Minowa | TKO (Punches) | 1 | 1:10 | ||
| Kazuyuki Fujita | def. | James Thompson | KO (Punch) | 1 | 8:25 | ||
| Josh Barnett | def. | Aleksander Emelianenko | Submission (Keylock) | 2 | 1:57 | ||
| Mark Hunt | def. | Tsuyoshi Kosaka | TKO (Punches) | 2 | 4:15 | ||
| Fabrício Werdum | def. | Alistair Overeem | Submission (Kimura) | 2 | 3:43 | ||
| Alternate Bout | |||||||
| Roman Zentsov | def. | Gilbert Yvel | KO (Punch) | 1 | 4:55 | ||
2006 Pride Open-Weight Grand Prix Bracket
| 1st Round (PRIDE Total Elimination Absolute) | Quarterfinals (PRIDE Critical Countdown Absolute) | Semifinals (PRIDE Final Conflict Absolute) | Finals (PRIDE Final Conflict Absolute) | ||||||||||||||||
| Josh Barnett | SUB | |||||||||||||||||
| Aleksander Emelianenko | 11:57 | |||||||||||||||||
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| Josh Barnett | ||||||||||||||||||
| Mark Hunt | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Mark Hunt | TKO | |||||||||||||||||
| Tsuyoshi Kohsaka | 14:15 | |||||||||||||||||
| Fabrício Werdum | SUB | |||||||||||||||||
| Alistair Overeem | 13:43 | |||||||||||||||||
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| Fabrício Werdum | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Antônio Rodrigo Nogueira | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Antônio Rodrigo Nogueira | SUB | |||||||||||||||||
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| Wagner da Conceicao Martins | 2:17 | |||||||||||||||||
| Mirko Filipović | TKO | |||||||||||||||||
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| Ikuhisa Minowa | 1:10 | |||||||||||||||||
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| Mirko Filipović | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Hidehiko Yoshida | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Hidehiko Yoshida | SUB | |||||||||||||||||
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| Yosuke Nishijima | 2:33 | |||||||||||||||||
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| Kazuyuki Fujita | KO | |||||||||||||||||
| James Thompson | 8:25 | |||||||||||||||||
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| Kazuyuki Fujita | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Wanderlei Silva1 | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Fedor Emelianenko | BYE | |||||||||||||||||
1Fedor Emelianenko suffered a hand injury and could not participate in the tournament. He was replaced by Wanderlei Silva.
See also
- Pride Fighting Championships
- List of Pride Fighting Championships champions
- List of Pride FC events
- 2006 in Pride FC