PRIDE FC

2005 Middleweight Grand Prix Tournament

Fight Order

June 26, 2005

Saitama Super Arena

Saitama, Japan

All GP bouts will be three rounds - first round is 10 minutes, second and third rounds are five minutes each.

Line-up order translated from Sportsnavi:

Fight 1 - Heavyweight Bout

Sergei Kharitonov (Russia) vs. Pedro Rizzo (Brazil)

Fight 2 - Middleweight GP Tournament Bout

Antonio Rogerio Nogueira (Brazil) vs. Mauricio "Shogun" Rua (Brazil)

Fight 3 - Middleweight GP Tournament Bout

Igor Vovchanchyn (Ukraine) vs. Alistair Overeem (Holland)

Fight 4 - Heavyweight Bout

Mirko "Cro Cop" Filipovic (Croatia) vs. Ibragim Magomedov (Russia)

Fight 5 - Middleweight Bout

Kiyoshi Tamura (Japan) vs. Makoto Takimoto (Japan)

Fight 6 - Heavyweight Bout

Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira (Brazil) vs. Pawel Nastula (Poland)

Fight 7 - Middleweight GP Tournament Bout

Kazushi Sakuraba (Japan) vs. Ricardo Arona (Brazil)

Fight 8 - Middleweight GP Tournament Bout

Wanderlei Silva (Brazil) vs. Kazuhiro Nakamura (Japan)

Card subject to change

(6/22/05)