PRIDE Total Elimination Absolute

Infobox Wrestling event
name = PRIDE Total Elimination Absolute


promotion = PRIDE Fighting Championships
date = May 5, 2006
venue = Osaka Dome
city = Osaka
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buyrate =
lastevent = PRIDE Bushido 10
nextevent = PRIDE Bushido Survival 2006

PRIDE Total Elimination Absolute was a mixed martial arts event held by the PRIDE Fighting Championships. This event was the first round of PRIDE's 2006 open-weight tournament. It took place at the Osaka Dome in Osaka, Japan on May 5, 2006.

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. Wanderlei Silva, current PRIDE middleweight champion, will get a bye into the second round. Current 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.

Results

Tournament matches

flagicon|USA Josh Barnett vs. flagicon|RUS Aleksander Emelianenko

Barnett defeated Emelianenko by submission via a keylock at 1:57 of round two.

=flagicon|JPN Kazuyuki Fujita vs. flagicon|GBR James Thompson=

Fujita defeated Thompson by KO at 8:25 of round one.

flagicon|NZL Mark Hunt vs. flagicon|JPN Tsuyoshi Kohsaka

Hunt defeated Kohsaka by TKO at 4:15 of round two. Kohsaka had announced earlier that if he lost his match he would retire from MMA competition.

flagicon|CRO Mirko "Cro Cop" Filipovic vs. flagicon|JPN Ikuhisa Minowa

Filipovic defeated Minowa by TKO at 1:10 of round one.

flagicon|BRA Antonio Rodrigo "Minotauro" Nogueira vs. flagicon|BRA Zuluzinho

Nogueira defeated Zuluzinho by submission via armbar at 2:17 of round one.

flagicon|NED Alistair Overeem vs. flagicon|BRA Fabricio Werdum

Werdum defeated Overeem by submission via a kimura at 3:43 of round two.

flagicon|JPN Yosuke Nishijima vs. flagicon|JPN Hidehiko Yoshida

Yoshida defeated Nishijima by submission via triangle choke at 2:33 of round one.

Alternate match

flagicon|NED Gilbert Yvel vs. flagicon|RUS Roman Zentsov

Zentsov defeated Yvel by KO at 4:55 of round one.

Sources

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ee also

* PRIDE Critical Countdown Absolute
* PRIDE Final Conflict Absolute
* List of PRIDE events

External links

* [http://www.pridefc.com/ Official PRIDE Website]