Perhaps the biggest inter-promotion clash of the year is when Pride and K-1 present their huge New Year’s Eve spectaculars and do battle over Japanese TV ratings.

Rumours have already begun circulating about what we can expect from MMA’s biggest night of the year:

Pride Shockwave 2005: Rumours

Hayato Sakurai Vs Takanori Gomi

Fedor Emelianenko Vs Hidehiko Yoshida

Ricardo Arona Vs Wanderlei Silva

Mark Hunt vs “Cro Cop” Mirko Filipovic

Kazushi Sakuraba Vs Kiyoshi Tamura

Murilo Bustamante vs Dan Henderson

Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira, Aleksander Emelianenko, Mauricio Rua, Pawel Nastula and Josh Barnett and James Thompson are also expected to feature.

K1 - Dynamite

K-1 are playing their cards close to their chests, but have confirmed:

Genki Sudo Vs Norifumi Yamamoto

and

Royce Gracie Vs Yoshihiro Akiyama.

Also rumoured to appear on the card are:

Bob Sapp

Jerome Le Banner

Peter Aerts

Hideo Tokoro
Choi Hong-Man