Best damn pride tribute video ive seen

[LSU]

If Bellator ever wants to get bigger than the UFC all the need to do is get some cameras on the refs, fight in a ring and allow kicks/stomps to grounded opponents

 

[Cam Zink]

Lights will guide you home, and then the camera is showing me landing a flying punch on a customer like Shogun/Lil Nog.

 

[Prutfis]

Machine Men also do awesome vids

 

[IndyCovaHart]

Ask Johil de Oliveira about that beautiful pyrotechnics.

Holy shit. How did I never know this story until now.

And he was scheduled to fight Matt Serra in PRIDE?

Mind blown.

 

[RichardN7]

I know its old
But I just remembered


Tbh i cried

Gae

 

[wilKO]

Pride was the shit. Won't be another promotion like that again.

 

[Bubblun]

Holy shit. How did I never know this story until now.

And he was scheduled to fight Matt Serra in PRIDE?

Mind blown.

I read it back in the day i believe from a Eduardo Alonso (Maia and Shogun manager) article on Black Belt Magazine, if i remember correctly, but i could be wrong.

Basically the guy was visited in the hospital, when he was half comatose, by those yakuza looking Pride bosses in suits and very prostrating they gave him a briefcase full of cash to stay quiet and not making it a big deal.
Looking back he would have asked a lot more because he had his whole body burned and serious complications, but he was not lucid.

 

[FrontNakedChoke]

Old highlight videos were what turned me from a casual fan to an addict.

 

[Gambit MMA]

the openweight gp final intro will always be the best

 

[TakadaDojoKeith]

I know its old
But I just remembered


Tbh i cried

About a third of those POV vids were from my old coach at Takada Dojo, Minoru Toyonaga. He was one of the best refs during the kakutougi boom. Still is, but in smaller shows these days.

 

[TakadaDojoKeith]

God, I wish they could come back and buy these stupid pricks out. The talent is so much deeper today, but the presentation is shit.

You'd probably dig the RIZIN shows. They're basically PRIDE 2.0

 

[TakadaDojoKeith]

Wish i could just fight every customer i get angry with soccer kicking them and shit while this music is playing

Believe it or not, there's a promotion here in Tokyo called Tribelate where there play music the entire length of each round. My buddy fought in it a couple of times and said it's super annoying.

 

[TakadaDojoKeith]

Ask Johil de Oliveira about that beautiful pyrotechnics.

Wow. Haven't thought about that in years. Dude got seriously singed.

 

[TakadaDojoKeith]

Pride was the shit. Won't be another promotion like that again.

They're trying with RIZIN. I'm hoping it becomes a worthy successor to PRIDE. They definitely have the same showmanship.

 

[Prutfis]

Holy shit. How did I never know this story until now.

And he was scheduled to fight Matt Serra in PRIDE?

Mind blown.

James Hetfield is Also not a fan

 

[IndyCovaHart]

James Hetfield is Also not a fan

That Fade to Black intro must give him PTSD every time.

 

[RichardHarrow]

Only one mma highlight for me. Genghis con was a legend.

 

[Boondockvideo]

Yea, Boondock made epic HL vids.

May you never die, my friend.