Phil Baroni to represent Pride
Pride FC’s Phil Baroni and Kazuyuki Fujita are set to accompany PRIDE Middleweight Champion Wanderlei Silva as the company’s representatives at UFC’s November PPV.
A salivating crowd at the Mandalay Bay Events Center witnessed Dana White announce the dream clash between Liddell and Silva this past weekend at UFC 60. It has since emerged that the Japanese promotion are sending a supporting cast of fighters to compete with UFC’s finest in November.
DSE President Nobuyuki Sakakibara, who accompanied Wanderlei Silva at UFC 60, revealed to Japanese press upon his return to the Orient that his compatriot Kazuyuki Fujita is set to compete at UFC’s November PPV.
In addition, PRIDE Bushido standout Phil Baroni has publicly announced his participation. The New York Bad Ass, a former UFC Middleweight who amassed a 3-5-0 record in his 4-year spell with the company, has informed fans that he will return to his former stomping ground to square off against a “top UFC 185 pounder�.
The prospect of a PRIDE vs. UFC card has remarkably emerged from redundant conjecture to reality, leaving appeased spectators anxiously awaiting the organisations inaugural battle in November.
