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PRIDE employees get the axe in Japan

By Jordan Breen
Sherdog.com

Friday, October 5, 2007

Six months after it was announced that Dream Stage Entertainment had sold control of the PRIDE Fighting Championships to UFC owners Frank and Lorenzo Fertitta, Japanese news web sites on Thursday reported that all current PRIDE employees were notified by Jamie Pollack, the Zuffa lawyer in charge of overseeing the operations of the PRIDE office, that they had been terminated. According to Japanese combat sports site God Bless The Ring, an anonymous PRIDE employee stated that on Oct. 3, Pollack i ...

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