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{{short description|Pride FC MMA event in 2007}}
{{Infobox MMA event
| name = Pride 34
| image = Pride34 poster.jpg
| promotion = [[Pride Fighting Championships]]
| date = April 8, 2007
| venue = [[Saitama Super Arena]]
| city = [[Saitama, Saitama|Saitama]], [[Japan]]
| previousevent = [[Pride 33]]
| followingevent = 
}}
'''''Pride 34: Kamikaze'''''<ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.sherdog.com/news/news.asp?n_id=6993
| title = Three Bouts Announced For Pride "Kamikaze"| accessdate = 2007-03-15| date = 2007-03-15
| publisher = [[Sherdog]]}}</ref> was a [[mixed martial arts]] event held by [[Pride Fighting Championships]] on April 8, 2007, at the [[Saitama Super Arena]] in [[Saitama, Saitama|Saitama]], [[Japan]].

==Background==
This was the last Pride show promoted by [[Dream Stage Entertainment]] before the sale of the company (see [[Pride Fighting Championships#Pride Worldwide era|Pride Worldwide]]). The promotion folded shortly after the event.

Although [[Wanderlei Silva]] and [[Mauricio Rua]] were negotiating with Pride to compete,<ref>{{cite web| url = http://canais.ondarpc.com.br/gazetadopovo/esportes/conteudo.phtml?id=644801| archive-url = https://archive.today/20071102122659/http://canais.ondarpc.com.br/gazetadopovo/esportes/conteudo.phtml?id=644801| url-status = dead| archive-date = 2007-11-02| title = Wanderlei Silva e Maurício Shogun podem voltar ao Pride em abril| last = de Araújo| first = Thiago| accessdate = 2007-03-16| date = 2007-03-15| publisher = Gazeta do Povo| language = Portuguese}}</ref> neither did. Silva did not participate because of a medical suspension received from the [[Nevada State Athletic Commission]].<ref>{{cite web| url = http://boxing.nv.gov/2007%20Results/02-24-07%20MMA.pdf| title = Mixed Martial Arts Show Results – Pride 33| accessdate = 2007-03-13| year = 2007| publisher = [[Nevada State Athletic Commission]]| url-status = dead| archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20070316125804/http://boxing.nv.gov/2007%20Results/02-24-07%20MMA.pdf| archivedate = 2007-03-16}}</ref> The commission had stated that if a Japanese doctor cleared Silva for competition, they would consider lifting the suspension three days early, but this did not come to fruition.<ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.mmaweekly.com/absolutenm/templates/dailynews.asp?articleid=3744&zoneid=13| title = No Wanderlei, But Maybe a Surprise or Two?| accessdate = 2007-04-08| date = 2006-04-07| publisher = MMA Weekly| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070409012715/http://www.mmaweekly.com/absolutenm/templates/dailynews.asp?articleid=3744&zoneid=13| archive-date = 2007-04-09| url-status = dead}}</ref>

[[Gilbert Yvel]] was originally slated to fight [[Bazigit Atajev]], but Atajev withdrew due to an internal disease.<ref name="gil">{{cite web| url = http://www.mmaweekly.com/absolutenm/templates/dailynews.asp?articleid=3728&zoneid=13| title = Bazigit Atajev Off Of Pride 34 Card| accessdate = 2007-04-05| date = 2007-04-05| publisher = MMA Weekly| url-status = dead| archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20071025032026/http://www.mmaweekly.com/absolutenm/templates/dailynews.asp?articleid=3728&zoneid=13| archivedate = 2007-10-25}}</ref>

[[Nobuyuki Sakakibara]]'s "surprise announcement" at the event turned out to be a guest appearance by [[Kazushi Sakuraba]] who had left Pride nearly a year ago to join rival promotion [[Hero's]]. [[Kiyoshi Tamura]] joined Sakuraba in the ring and teased a potential matchup in a future Pride event. Sakuraba had initially expressed his wish to fight either [[Wanderlei Silva]] or [[Kiyoshi Tamura]] on the card but in the end neither fight materialized. Though Tamura would end up fighting Sakuraba at [[Dynamite!! 2008]].

==Results==
{{MMAevent}}
{{MMAevent card|Card}}
{{MMAevent bout
|Heavyweight
| [[Yoshihiro Nakao]]
|def.
| Edson Drago
|Submission (scarf hold)
|1
|9:15
|
}}
{{MMAevent bout
|Heavyweight
| [[Eric Esch]]
|def.
| [[Zuluzinho]]
|Submission (keylock)
|1
|2:35
|
}}
{{MMAevent bout
|Middleweight
| [[Makoto Takimoto]]
|def.
| [[Zelg Galesic]]
|Submission (kimura)
|1
|5:40
|
}}
{{MMAevent bout
|Heavyweight
| [[Gilbert Yvel]]
|def.
| [[Akira Shoji]]
|TKO (punches)
|1
|3:46
|
}}
{{MMAevent bout
|Heavyweight
| [[James Thompson (fighter)|James Thompson]]
|def.
| [[Don Frye]]
|TKO (punches)
|1
|6:23
|
}}
{{MMAevent bout
|Lightweight
| [[Shinya Aoki]]
|def.
| [[Brian Lo-A-Njoe]]
|Submission (armbar)
|1
|1:33
|
}}
{{MMAevent bout
|Heavyweight
| [[Rameau Thierry Sokoudjou]]
|def.
| [[Ricardo Arona]]
|KO (punches)
|1
|1:59
|
}}
{{MMAevent bout
|Heavyweight
| [[Jeff Monson]]
|def.
| [[Kazuyuki Fujita]]
|Submission (rear-naked choke)
|1
|6:36
|
}}
{{MMAevent end|notes=yes}}

== See also ==
* [[Pride Fighting Championships|Pride FC]]
* [[List of Pride Fighting Championships champions|List of Pride FC champions]]
* [[List of Pride Fighting events|List of Pride FC events]]
* [[2007 in Pride FC]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

{{Pride Events}}

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