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Serious or just trolling?
Yakuza ties became common knowledge which resulted in it getting dropped by Japanese TV stations.
I'm ready. Pride forever.
“They did it too” is not quality defense. That’s how children argue. I don’t want to go back to the old days of the UFC either. Nice try, but try again.
I think you just had a lot of fun events. There were squash matches and pro wrestling type feuds but it’s no different than the landscape is right now with guys like CM Punk. I think a lot of the LHW and HW classes are just as good in Pride as they are now. Better overall production and they got you to care about the fighters.I think the root cause was actually more politics at Fuji TV, Pride was essentially co run by them at great expense and they looked to move into other areas.
Beyond anything else Pride obviously benefited from having quality HW and LHW full of young fighters who could fight often.
You really enjoy post 2015 UFC more than you did pre 2015?
How is this even possible?
I mean, you had BJ Penn, GSP, Anderson Silva, Jon Jones, i mean a whole list of about 30 absolute legends, and now you got like, Woodley? Ngannou as the biggest heavyweight prospect? Colby Covington? I mean there are quality fighters now ofcourse, but cmon son.... its not even comparable...
Where the hell did you get pre and post 2015 from? You literally made up a timeframe to further your narrative.
You really prefer pre 2000 UFC to everything that came after it? Not me.
I think you just had a lot of fun events. There were squash matches and pro wrestling type feuds but it’s no different than the landscape is right now with guys like CM Punk. I think a lot of the LHW and HW classes are just as good in Pride as they are now. Better overall production and they got you to care about the fighters.
PRIDE was indeed the best MMA promotion in history.
Ring > Cage
PRIDE Rules > UFC Rules
PRIDE Judging > UFC Judging
PRIDE Production > UFC Production
PRIDE Stage > UFC non-Stage
PRIDE Hype videos > UFC Hype Videos
Crazy PRIDE Lady > Bruce Buffer
PRIDE Music > UFC Music
PRIDE Commentators > UFC Commentators
PRIDE > UFC
100% agreed, a little too wwe'ish for me.Stephen Quadros is a bad commentator... yeah, I said it.