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Pride Fighting Championships

Pride Fighting Championships was a Japanese mixed martial arts promotion company founded by Nobuyuki Sakakibara and Nobuhiko Takada. Its inaugural event was held at the Tokyo Dome on October 11, 1997. Pride held more than sixty mixed martial arts events, broadcast to about 40 countries worldwide. Pride held the largest live MMA event audience record of 91,107 people at the Pride and K-1 co-production, Shockwave/Dynamite, held in August 2002, as well as the audience record of over 67,450 people at the Pride Final Conflict 2003. For ten years PRIDE was one of the most popular MMA organizations in the world.
  • The Origins Until The Glory Days 

  • Pride Worldwide era 

  • Video 

  • Video games 

  • Attire 

  • Victory 

  • Fouls 

  • Match conduct 

  • Pride Bushido 

  • Differences from the ''Unified Rules of Mixed Martial Arts'' 

  • Pride events 

  • Pride Grand Prix 

  • Exceptions 

  • Heavyweight 

  • Middleweight 

  • Welterweight 

  • Lightweight