The full card for the New Year’s Eve show is:
*Kazushi Sakuraba vs. Ikuhisa Minowa
*Emelianenko Alexander vs. Pawel Nastula
*James Thompson vs. Giant Silva
*Free-weight match: Ken Kaneko vs. Charles “Krazy Horse” Bennett
*Middleweight Title Match: Vanderlei Silva vs. Ricardo Arona
*Emelianenko Fedor vs. Zulu
*Mirko Cro Cop vs. Mark Hunt
*Hidehiko Yoshida vs. Naoya Ogawa
*Yuki Kondo vs. Kazuhiro Nakamura
*Makoto Takimoto vs. Sanae Kikuta
*2005 Lightweight Tournament Finals: Takanori Gomi vs. Hayato “Mach” Sakurai
*2005 Welterweight Tournament Finals: Dan Henderson vs. Murilo Bustamante
Bas Rutten, announcer for the PRIDE show in English, left the company in advance of this show. Rutten, who was renegotiating his contract with the organization, was said to be offended that the company contracted fighter Frank Trigg to do commentary on the monthly Fox Sports shows that the company does, according to the Wrestling Observer. Rutten, the three-time former King of Pancrase and UFC Champion, will move to the King of the Cage MMA promotion, according to the website MMA Fighting.
