PRIDE FC

2005 Middleweight Grand Prix Tournament

Two Bouts Added

June 26, 2005

Saitama Super Arena

Saitama, Japan

PRIDE has added two more bouts to their June 26th event which will feature the second round of the 2005

middleweight Grand Prix - 1996 Olympic Judo Gold medalist Pawel Nastula will make his debut in PRIDE

against the former PRIDE heavyweight champion Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira while 2004 heavyweight

Grand Prix semi-finalist Sergei Kharitonov takes on former UFC standout Pedro "The Rock" Rizzo. All

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

Line-up (not in fight order):

Fight 1 - Middleweight GP Tournament Bout

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

Fight 2 - Middleweight GP Tournament Bout

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

Fight 3 - Middleweight GP Tournament Bout

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

Fight 4 - Middleweight GP Tournament Bout

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

Fight 5 - Heavyweight Bout - Added

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

Fight 6 - Heavyweight Bout - Added

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

Card subject to change

(5/25/05)