The main event was scheduled to be heavyweight Champion Fedor Emelianenko defending his heavyweight championship against the winner of the Absolute Grand Prix, but Mirko Filipović was recovering from foot surgery he underwent on October 26 and could not fight at Shockwave.

[1] Josh Barnett, the Absolute Grand Prix runner up, was also a contender to face Emelianenko, as mentioned by the heavyweight champion in a Pride 32 post-fight press conference, but was "not in the best condition" to compete and instead fought Antônio Rodrigo Nogueira in a rematch and lost that fight to.

[2] Ultimately, Fedor defended his title against Mark Hunt.

[2] The event was the first outside of tournaments, title bouts, and fights under the NSAC jurisdiction to feature concrete weight classes.

The gospel choir during the opening ceremony was led by Mika Arisaka and Fubito Endo.