Today, Dream Stage Entertainment announced the matches for the opening round of the eight man middleweight tournament, which will take place at the next PRIDE FC event dubbed "TOTAL ELIMINATION."

Kazushi Sakuraba vs. Wanderlei Silva
Kiyoshi Tamura vs. Hidehiko Yoshida
Quinton Jackson vs. Ricardo Arona
Chuck Liddell vs Alistair Overeem
TOTAL ELIMINATION features the opening round of the middleweight tournament (4 tournament matches will take place that event, in addition to 3 to 4 non-tournament heavyweight matches) and is scheduled for August 10, 2003 from the Saitama Super Arena in Japan


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wow this is cool at lease you get to see silva rape yoshida in november and a possible chuck and rampage

Random draw...yeah right. Smells like bullshit to me again. All those Yoshida nuthuggers at Pride are giving him the easiest time out of all the others. I guarantee that they're hoping that the others get injured so that Yoshida makes it to the final.

Almost everybody in here thinks the winner of this tournament is quinton or wanderlei. just in my opinion the winner will be arona.

I wouldn't be surprised.

Instead of tamura it should be hamanaka fighting in this tournament.

It can't be Hamanaka cause there is only one fighter allowed from a team and Sakuraba is already in the GP.
I am also afraid that Arona is gonna lay and pray his ass to the final match. We might see Wandie x Arona in the finals.