On September 1st, at the newly opened J-ROCK Workout Studio, Kazuhiro Nakamura and Michihiro Omigawa talked to reporters at their open work-out session. Both fighters showed a variety of moves based on protecting themselves from the elbow shots, something neither fighter has ever experienced in the past. They revealed that they have been working with UFC veteran Tsuyoshi "TK" Kosaka and WEC veteran Daisuke Ishii to work on fighting in the Octagon. However, Nakamura said, "I have been working on countermeasures (from the elbow strike) but I don't really want to be wrapped up in those issues, I just want to fight freely." Their master, Hidehiko Yoshida was also at the work-out session, "Both fighters were born in PRIDE so I want them to prove their strength there." Yoshida is planning to fly to Vegas to be on their corner at the fight.
