PRIDE Bushido Welterweight, Lightweight Finals Set
Tournament Reserve Matches
Jason Nowe Sep 25, 2005
In the welterweight reserve match, DEEP and SHOOTO veteran Ryuta Sakurai (Pictures) faced off against BTT member
Paulo Filho (Pictures). Following a takedown, Filho
attempted a Kimura from half guard, then scored the mount,
transitioned to take his opponent’s back and then into an armbar.
Sakurai struggled to hang on but was forced to tapout at the 3:49
second mark of the first round.
The lightweight reserve match saw Charles “Krazy Horse” Bennett square off against Cobra-kai dojo’s Dokonjonosuke Mishima (Pictures). Both fighters came to the ring carrying stuffed Snoopy dolls. Bennett proceeded to tear his apart once he entered the ring. When coming to the center of the ring to listen to the referee’s rules, Bennett just hammed it up for the camera and totally ignored the ref.
Mishima scored the first takedown in this one, then moved to the side, his opponent’s back, and finally to the mount where he began to rain down punches. Bennett amazing managed to struggle to his feet and after a brief exchange picked Mishima up to chest level and slammed him into the mat. Both fighters then went for leg submissions and after a battle of attrition, Bennett was forced to tap out.
Just as Bennett was giving his post-fight interview, he managed to catch the extremely short Azeredo-Kotani fight on a television monitor. He then basically stated that he didn’t know how some of the fighters got into the tournament and that he was upset that PRIDE only made him an alternate rather than putting him into the mix.
The lightweight reserve match saw Charles “Krazy Horse” Bennett square off against Cobra-kai dojo’s Dokonjonosuke Mishima (Pictures). Both fighters came to the ring carrying stuffed Snoopy dolls. Bennett proceeded to tear his apart once he entered the ring. When coming to the center of the ring to listen to the referee’s rules, Bennett just hammed it up for the camera and totally ignored the ref.
Mishima scored the first takedown in this one, then moved to the side, his opponent’s back, and finally to the mount where he began to rain down punches. Bennett amazing managed to struggle to his feet and after a brief exchange picked Mishima up to chest level and slammed him into the mat. Both fighters then went for leg submissions and after a battle of attrition, Bennett was forced to tap out.
Just as Bennett was giving his post-fight interview, he managed to catch the extremely short Azeredo-Kotani fight on a television monitor. He then basically stated that he didn’t know how some of the fighters got into the tournament and that he was upset that PRIDE only made him an alternate rather than putting him into the mix.
