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LOS ANGELES, California - The bout order has been announced for CRITICAL COUNTDOWN 2004, which will take place on June 20th, 2004 from the Saitama Super Arena in Japan and is scheduled to debut on North American pay per view on same day delay.

The bout order is as follows (from first to last):

Kazushi Sakuraba vs. Nino "Elvis" Schembri
Quinton Jackson vs. Ricardo Arona *
Semmy Schilt vs. Sergei Kharitonov **
Paulo Cesar "Giant" Silva vs. Naoya Ogawa **
Hidehiko Yoshida vs. Mark Hunt
Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira vs. Heath Herring **
Fedor Emelianenko vs. Kevin Randleman **

* This bout is for the rank of #1 middleweight; the winner will be positioned for a title shot in October 2004
** Tournament bout
Fight Card Subject to Change

The schedule for the tournament is as follows:

PRIDE FC 16-Man Heavyweight Tournament

CRITICAL COUNTDOWN 2004
June 20, 2004
Saitama Super Arena
(Second Round)

FINAL CONFLICT 2004
August 15, 2004
Saitama Super Arena
(Semi-Finals and Finals)

PRIDE FC: CRITICAL COUNTDOWN 2004 will premiere on North American pay per view through iNDEMAND, DIRECTV, DISH NETWORK, UrbanXtra, TVN1, VU!, and Viewer's Choice Canada on Sunday, June 20th, 2004. The premiere time is 9:00pm EST, 6:00pm PST and the count down show is at 8:30pm EST, 5:30pm PST. For additional replay times, please contact your pay per view provider.

Sakuraba 1st?

I would have put Hidehiko Yoshida vs. Mark Hunt 1st. Then Quinton Jackson vs. Ricardo Arona as the main non tournament fight.

You know, the more I think about the Arona Jackson fight, the more I'm starting to think that Jackson is going to give Arona problems. Arona better stay off his back against Quinton.

Arona vs. Jackson is the fight I am most looking forward too, I would of expected Sakuraba too be the main event, I hope he murders Schembri.......

The last fight was just a fluke. Sak by TKO

Yeah, I expect Sak to come out with a vengence, it has got to suck to hand someone there ass an entire fight then get caught with a lucky shot........

It does

Just ask Carlos Newton

You mean like when he was getting owned by Pat Militich and than landed the schoolyard headlock?

You mean like when he was getting owned by Pat Militich and than landed the schoolyard headlock?

dave did that to me

like I said before god will prevail

You mean like when he was getting owned by Pat Militich and than landed the schoolyard headlock?


If it was such a schoolyard headlock a man of pats skills should have been able to defend it.

He had that cinched in pretty tight and under the chin, I didn't mean that it wouldn't work, just that it didn't look very impressive.