Silva's Opponent Named

December 31, 2004

Saitama Super Arena

Saitama, Japan

PRIDE FC has named 2001 K-1 Grand Prix Champion Mark Hunt as Kazushi Sakuraba's replacement

against PRIDE middleweight champion Wanderlei Silva at PRIDE's New Year's Eve event - Shockwave.

Hunt is coming off a win over Dan Bobish and Silva is coming off a win over Quenton "Rampage" Jackson

- both at PRIDE 28 this past October 31st, respectively.

Line-up:

Fight 1

Stefan Leko (Germany) vs. Ikuhisa Minowa (Japan)

Fight 2

Paolo “Giant” Silva (Brazil) vs. Choi Mu Bae (Korea)

Fight 3

Yoji Anjo (Japan) vs. Ryan Gracie (Brazil)

Fight 4

Ryo Chonan (Japan) vs. Anderson Silva (Brazil)

Fight 5

Makoto Takimoto (Japan) vs. Henry “Sentoryu” Miller (USA)

Fight 6

Hidehiko Yoshida (Japan) vs. Rulon Gardner (USA)

Fight 7

Mirko “Cro Cop” Filipovic (Croatia) vs. Kevin Randleman (USA)

Fight 8

Dan Henderson (USA) vs. Yuki Kondo (Japan)

Fight 9

Takanori Gomi (Japan) vs. Jens Pulver (USA)

Fight 10

Wanderlei Silva (Brazil) vs. Mark Hunt - added

Fight 11 - Heavyweight GP Championship Final & Heavyweight Title Bout

Fedor Emelianenko (Russia) vs. Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira (Brazil)

Fight card subject to change

(12/29/04)