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PRIDE FC Heavyweight Grand Prix Tournament Play by Play
April 25, 2004 Japan
Fight 1 - Heavyweight Tournament Bout (Opening Round) Heath Herring wins by knockout at 4:43 of the first round over Yoshiki Takahashi
They both come out, Heath shoots a front kick and then a round-house - Takahashi calls time-out, something in his eye - Heath a kick to the mid-section - Heath another kick - Takahashi lands a punch to the face of Heath - Heath using his kicks with power - Heath throws a high kick but Takahashi blocks - They go down, Takahashi in the north\south position on top delivering knees to Heath's head - Takahashi throwing kicks and punches but Heath is blocking them - Heath gets up and goes for a double leg - Heath gets him down - Takahashi has a guillotine choke but with a hand inside - Heath pulls out - Heath is in Takahashi's full guard - Heath throws punches but misses with some of them - Takahashi doing a good job avoiding the head punches - Heath now going to the body and head and his shots are landing - Heath just punching away at Takahashi's body and face in the full guard - Heath landing numerous lefts on Takahashi's face from the guard - Heath lands four hammerfists to Takahashi's face and Takahashi is out - ref stops the bout - Herring wins by knockout - Takahashi's left eye is all swollen
Fight 2 - Heavyweight Tournament Bout (Opening Round) Sergei Kharitonov wins by knockout at 4:14 of the first round over Murilo “Ninja” Rua
They both come out, touch gloves - Ninja tries a left hand - both trying to trade blows - Ninja lands a left - Sergei lands a left - Ninja lands a straight left and tries for a takedown - Sergei lands a Judo throw and Ninja tries for a heel hook - Sergei gets half-guard - both back up - Both of the fighters are trading blows - Sergei lands a shot to the mid-section - Sergei bleeding form the nose - both fighters slow down a little - trying to read each other - Sergei landing a couple of jabs - Ninja throwing some Thai kicks to the thigh - Sergei counters - Sergei trying to work his jabs - Ninja looking a little tried - Sergei landing a straight right - now going to the body and the face - Sergei lands a straight right , then another straight right and Ninja was going down when Sergei lands a hooking left and puts Ninja down for good. The ref steps in and stop the bout.
Fight 3 - Heavyweight Tournament Bout (Opening Round) “Giant” Silva wins by submission (key lock) at 4:04 of the first round over Henry “Sentoryu” Miller
Both come out - just circling each other - Miller charges in and goes for a single leg - Silva grabs around - Miller still has the single leg - Silva holding on and goes for a guillotine choke but Miller gets him down - Miller is in Silva's open guard - Silva lands a couple of punches and goes to a close guard - Miller lands a couple of body shots - Silva lands a couple of shots to the face - Miller lands a couple of shots to the body - Miller landing single to the body of Silva - Miller passes and goes to side mount - Silva goes for a key lock from being in the side mount - both stuck in that position - Miller now shifting his weight for Silva to get the key lock - Silva is able to pull the arm up - Miller taps from a key lock (kimura) - Silva is on his back with Miller in a full side mount, from his back Silva is able to reach over and secure the key lock and pull it up until Miller taps.
Fight 4 - Heavyweight Tournament Bout (Opening Round) Semmy Schilt wins by submission (arm bar) at 5:02 of the first round over Gan McGee
Both come out, Schilt starts to jab - McGee goes for a double leg and take Schilt down - McGee gets side mount - Schilt goes for a reverse triangle but McGee gets out of it - McGee gets the full mount - McGee sits up and throws a few strikes Schilt is able to block most of them - McGee just sitting on Schilt - Schilt brings him down to his body - Schilt delivers a few hammerfists from the bottom - McGee bleeding from the nose - McGee goes for a key lock but Schilt just pulls away - McGee tries to deliver small rabbit punches to Schilt but Schilt just holds his hands - Schilt able to land a couple more hammerfists to McGee's face - McGee going for an Americana - Schilt pulls out - Schilt has the open guard on McGee - Schilt sweeps McGee and almost lands a soccer kick from a sitting position - McGee goes for a heel hook and Schilt pulls forward and lands on top of McGee and right away goes for an arm bar and sinks it in and McGee taps.
Fight 5 - Heavyweight Tournament Bout (Opening Round) Naoya Ogawa wins by submission (choke) at 1:34 of the first round over Stefan Leko
Ogawa comes in wearing a T-shirt that says "I'm Chicken" - Good stare down - Both come out, Leko starts to deliver kicks to the inside thigh of Ogawa - Ogawa lands a punch that staggers Leko - Ogawa trying to finish him - Leko goes down and Ogawa gets the full mount - Leko pulls away - Ogawa gets the side mount and keeps Leko down - Ogawa again gets the full mount and tries a hand and shoulder triangle choke while on top of Leko and he sinks it in and Leko taps.
Fight 6 - Heavyweight Tournament Bout (Opening Round) Kevin Randleman wins by knockout at 1:34 of the first round over Mirko “Cro Cop” Filipovic
Chuck Liddell, Ron Waterman and Wes Simms in Randleman's corner - Randleman comes right at "Cro Cop" pushing him against the ropes - Randleman has double hooks underneath and "Cro Cop" trying to pull away - Randleman just has "Cro Cop" in the corner of the ring - holding him - Ref breaks them apart - Randleman circling "Cro Cop" - Randleman goes for a take down and "Cro Cop" pulls away - Randleman lands a left hook that sends "Cro Cop" down - "Cro Cop" tries to pull guard right away but Randleman throws hammerfists \ forearms that knockout "Cro Cop" on the floor. Randleman winner by knockout.
Fight 7 - Heavyweight Tournament Bout (Opening Round) Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira wins by submission (choke) at 1:25 of the second round over Hirotaka Yokoi
Both come to center of the ring - Yokoi comes in with the left - they tie up - both clinch - Nog delivers a knee to the body - still clinched - Nog delivers another knee - Nog takes Yokoi down and lands in the side mount - Nog landing some soft punches to the head of Yokoi - Nog still in the side mount - Nog looking for a way to mount Yokoi - Nog delvers a couple of shots to Yokoi - Yokoi pulled out and stood up right away - Yokoi amost lands a knee to Nog's face - They clinch again - Yokoi does a Judo throw to Nog and gets Nog down and lands a hammerfist to the face of Nog - Nog brings Yokoi down to his open guard - Both exchanging punches from the ground - Yokoi taunts Nog to hit him - Nog goes for an arm bar to a knee bar but Yokoi pulls away and stands up - Nog pulls Yokoi down and Nog gets the side mount - Nog goes for the full mount but Yokoi turns him around and delivers a couple of shots to Nog's face - Yokoi then stands up leaving Nog on his back - Yokoi comes in at Nog but Nog pulls him back into his guard - Nog delivers some heel kicks to Yokoi's face - going back and forth - Yokoi one again stands up - Yokoi delivers a couple of kicks to the thigh of Nog from the standing position. Nog again goes for a knee bar but Yokoi just pulls away - Nog trips Yokoi but Yokoi just stands right back up - Both are standing - Both fighters exchanging punches - neither of them really landing - Nog pressing the fight - Nog lands a couple of punches - Nog lands a good right - Yokoi lands a good right - Nog showing his boxing skills - Nog lands a straight left - Nog almost lands a knee but Yokoi pulls back and misses it - Nog goes for two guillotines but Yokoi is able to get out of both of them. Yokoi is upset s something because he slams his hand to the floor.
Second round - Yokoi looks tired - Both come to the center of the ring and touch gloves - Yokoi sweeps Nog and takes him down but Nog is able top get right back up - Nog using and landing his Jab - Nog lands a right - Nog lands a knee - Yokoi shoots, Nog sprawls - Nog goes for a triangle choke with his arms from the north, south position with a half-roll. Yokoi taps. Yokoi is full of emotion as he walks out - both fighters did very well.
Fight 8 - Heavyweight Tournament Bout (Opening Round) Fedor Emelianenko wins by submission (arm bar) at 2:11 of the first round over Mark Coleman
Both come out, both throwing jabs - Coleman takes Fedor down - Coleman is in the half-guard - Coleman is in the full guard - Fedor tries to pull out - Coleman has his back - Coleman working for a rear naked choke - Fedor keeps his chin down - Coleman lands three good shots - Fedor pulls away and Fedor goes for a guillotine choke - Coleman gets out of it - Coleman tries to slam Fedor - Fedore pulls away - Coleman still gets Fedor down - Coleman lands in Fedor's open guard - Fedor from his guard, goes for the arm bar and turns over and around Coleman's arm for the arm bar with his face and body facing the mat and makes Coleman tap. Fedor goes over and talks to Coleman - Coleman upset with himself but raises Fedor's arm in victory.
NOTES: - Yuki Kondo will face Vanderlei Silva at PRIDE Bushido III on May 23rd (2004) - K-1 former champion Mark Hunt announced he will be fighting for PRIDE - Sakuraba stated he will be fighting in June
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