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Metalhead Josh Barnett not fighting on next PRIDE show…

One of the top heavyweight fighters in the world (and one of The Prophet’s top 5 favorite MMA fighters) Josh Barnett is most likely not fighting on the aforementioned 4/8 PRIDE show in Japan. According to his MySpace blog, he was originally scheduled to appear on the canceled 4/28 show in Las Vegas. He was contacted by PRIDE officials about appearing on the 4/8 show in Japan and being a real fighter said that if they had an opponent on the other side of the ring he’d be there. Since then PRIDE has apparently not done much to put a fight together. He wrote this while listening to one of my favorite new school metal bands, Children of Bodom:

There are some rumors thaty I will be fighting on the next PRIDE show, April 8th. Well I wish I could say there was much truth to it but at this point it doesn’t look very likely at all.

I had been training on a schedule to fight on the now canceled April 28th show and was contacted about now fighting on the 8th. Even though this would cut my time to train significantly I was still receptive planned to fight anyway. But at this point PRIDE has been unwilling or unable to make a match happen. We have yet to make any headway in booking a match and ,to me, it seems as though they are not even trying.

So for all that were expecting me to fight I am sorry to say that at this point, it is not happening. I know some fans in Japan already bought some tickets and I am sorry for that.

I hope to be fighting again in the near future, but as for when, I can’t say.

Can’t say that any of this is really surprising based on PRIDE’s always chaotic management situation. Hopefully “The Babyfaced Assassin” will be back in the ring soon…

Josh Barnett’s Myspace Blog here

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