To be the first person to battle our new MMATorch Prediction Champion, send in your picks for PRIDE 33, to be held Saturday night, February 24, in Las Vegas. If you're able to correctly predict the most PRIDE 33 fights, you'll go head-to-head for the MMATorch Prediction Championship at UFC 68 on March 3.

Below is the complete fight card for PRIDE 33. Please send in your predictions with the following format -- (Winner / Method of Victory / Ending Round) 

PART A - Who wins?

PART B - How do they win? Methods of victory can be -- submission, KO/TKO, unanimous/split decision, DQ.

PART C - In what round do they win? All matches have 3 five-minute rounds. Decision predictions do not require a round. 

Here’s a recent example of our Prediction Format for UFC 67.

PRIDE 33: THE SECOND COMING

The new number one contender for the MMATorch Prediction Championship will be determined by who correctly predicts the most matches at PRIDE 33. The winning MMATorch reader or writer will compete head-to-head against our new champion in predicting UFC 68 matches. This championship "match" between MMATorch writer Shawn Ennis and MMATorch reader Jerry Cattelane will be detailed in our Staff Predictions article before PRIDE 33.  

To be eligible, you must submit at least Part A above. Part B and Part C are optional. In the event of a tie, the winners will be determined by who correctly predicts the most combined methods (Part B) and rounds of victory (Part C). In the further event of a tie, winners will be determined by Part B. In determining method/round of victory scores, KO and TKO will count as one in the same, as will split and unanimous decision. These methods of victory will only be differentiated between if a further tiebreaker is necessary.    

Please send in your predictions by 8:45 p.m. EST on Saturday February 24. Entries can be resubmitted up until this time. Please make a note in your e-mail that your entry is a resubmission, which will void your original entry. 

Remember -- you've got to play to win, so send in your predictions and show us why you deserve to reign supreme as the MMATorch Prediction Champion. It won't be an easy task securing a spot in the championship match, but once you're there, it'll be easier to stay on top. As the champion, you'll only have to compete with one other person. The rest of us, in the meantime, will be competing against each other to become the new number one contender for your title. We'll keep a lineage of the champions here on the site. As times goes on, there’ll be more and more people competing to be the new number one contender, so it’d be wise to get in on this contest now, for your best chance at securing your legacy in the record books early.  Good luck all!

PREDICTION FORMAT EXAMPLE: Nogueira by Submission in Round 1

Your PRIDE 33: THE SECOND COMING Predictions can be e-mailed to mmatorch_predictions@yahoo.com.

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