PRIDE FC

2005 Middleweight Grand Prix

Silva vs. Yoshida

April 23, 2005

Osaka Dome

Osaka, Japan

PRIDE has announced one bout for the opening round of the 2005 middleweight Grand Prix tournament -

1992 Olympic Judo Gold Medalist Hidehiko Yoshida will face 2003 middleweight GP winner (and current

PRIDE middleweight champion) Wanderlei Silva in a rematch of their 2003 middleweight GP bout which

Silva won by decision. Also, Pride formally announced that Quinton "Rampage" Jackson has been added

to the Grand Prix line-up as well as Team Quest's Dan Henderson. Five participants still to be added to the

tournament.

Line-up:

Fight 1 - Middleweight GP Tournament Bout

Wanderlei Silva vs. Hidehiko Yoshida

Expected to participate in GP tournament:

- Quinton "Rampage" Jackson - added

- Dan Henderson - added

- Yuki Kondo

- Kazuhiro Nakamura

- Antonio Rogerio Nogueira

- Mauricio "Shogun" Rua

- Kazushi Sakuraba

- Igor Vovchanchyn

- Winner of the Four-man tournament at Bushido on April 3rd between:

  Amar Suloev, Paulo Filho, Dean Lister, and Akira Shoji

Card subject to change

(3/17/05)