UFC fighter Michael Bisping trained at EFG, while in Australia for his fight against Wanderlei Silva at UFC 110.
Silva culminated his IVC career by winning the promotion's Light Heavyweight belt with a submission win over Eugene Jackson in the IVC 10 show on April 27, 1999.
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The event included the finals of the Pride Welterweight and Lightwent tournaments that began at Pride Bushido 9, a rematch between Wanderlei Silva and Ricardo Arona for the Pride Middleweight Championship, and a main event between Olympic judokas Naoya Ogawa and Hidehiko Yoshida.
On October 22, 2013, it was announced that the coaches for the season would be Wanderlei Silva and Chael Sonnen.
The main event was anticipated to be Chuck Liddell versus Wanderlei Silva, a long-awaited match between the two popular former champions of the UFC and PRIDE, respectively; however, the main event featured a fight between former Light Heavyweight Champion Chuck Liddell and The Ultimate Fighter 2 alum Keith Jardine, with both fighters returning from knockout losses at UFC 71.
Pride FC and UFC legend Wanderlei Silva has been seen representing Venum for the past year.