the moment you realize it's been near a damn decade since the last Pride event

[leto1776]

To each their own. I prefer people fighting to finish fights and coming close to it, even if it's for 1/4 of the fight as opposed to someone LnP'ing or wall n stalling.

I prefer finishing fights as well, but pulling a Homer Simpson should not earn a decision win. Learn some takedown defense, or learn how to fight better off of your back.

Everything you named as a negative made Pride great. It was a great alternative product to the UFC and that's probably what I miss the most about it being around. The different judging criteria, soccer kicks and stomps, the presentation....it was the yin to the UFC's yang and really made the sport more dynamic and exciting. If the UFC was the only organization around back then; I would have never become a fan of this sport. Pride really made me appreciate the sport as a whole. UFC was (and to some extent, still is) too brash and low brow back then.

The only thing that I don't miss about those days.....not enough fights! It's nice to have fights every week that are readily available. I remember when the only visuals we had on a Pride event were pictures posted that night or the next day from Yahoo Japan sports....

I actually said I liked the presentation. Everything else could go, minus the four point knees.

The judging criteria left a lot to be desired, there were plenty of people bitching, moaning, and complaining about some of the decisions when they happened. People conveniently forget things when looking through the rosey shaded glasses of nostalgia.

 

[Hend0Goat0]

Every JMMA or Pride fight should have an asterisk next to it. There was no legit testing, tales of dives, set ups, etc. I do not count those fights as real or relevant.

 

[BloodAxe793]

Pride Never Die!

Started to get a bunch of new Irish fans to watch pride from here in Vegas. When they are in town for a Conor fight I bring out my portable DVD player and we sit in the sports book of a casino and watch pride events. This last one 196 I remember there was about 15-20 crowded around a 10" screen haha. Rules were better, entrances, opening. Everything is just took cookie cutter now a days, thats why I'm hoping a big Japanese talent will some how rise up and kick start RIZIN and another kakutogi boom in Japan. Will it happen? We can only hope.

Even the newer Irish guys loved it some much a lot went home and bought the dvds and pride stuff. A few had me bring them the Las Vegas Sports Shop to buy pride shirts and fighter shirts over Reebok stuff haha.

Simply the Golden years of attendance, viewership, and MMA in general that we are barely still able to replica to this day.

 

[Pakman]

I prefer finishing fights as well, but pulling a Homer Simpson should not earn a decision win. Learn some takedown defense, or learn how to fight better off of your back.



I actually said I liked the presentation. Everything else could go, minus the four point knees.

The judging criteria left a lot to be desired, there were plenty of people bitching, moaning, and complaining about some of the decisions when they happened. People conveniently forget things when looking through the rosey shaded glasses of nostalgia.

Their judging criteria was based on damage/finishing fights first n foremost. I don't think if u are losing 18 mins of a fight n u land a solid punch in last 2 min that u should win, but if fighter A lands 5 takedowns n does literally nothing with it for 13 minutes but fighter B in last 7 minutes lands a lot of clean shots and almost finishes the fight, he definitely deserves a W.

Also, lol at their judging criteria left a lot to be desired. At least it was a judging criteria for MMA fights. the UFC using a boxing scoring system n added its own points of emphasis. I can assure you, if you look through a similar # of decisions, more weird ones happen in the UFC.

 

[Joe_Armstrong]

I saw a video on YT once.
It had Pride music and edited in a way that it seemed
Frank Mir and Matt Hughes and others made an entrance
in the Pride ring. Anyone know that.

I remember it being called 'Pride Revenge'
But can't find it anymore.

 

[Kick Strickland]

PRIDE era and the 5 or so years afterward when the Pride guys were mixing it up with the UFC guys was the golden age of this sport. To be a fan back then and watch this new thing unfold and these superheroes doing amazing shit, combined with the fact that most people had no idea it even existed, was indescribable. The feeling of showing a noob a great fight and watching them become instant mma fans. Having UFC fight parties with friends right after TUF 1 blew up and all these new fans came out of the woodwork. It's just sad realizing it can never be like that again. But that is part of what makes it so special and to this day a time that so many of us reminisce about.

 

[Kick Strickland]

Every JMMA or Pride fight should have an asterisk next to it. There was no legit testing, tales of dives, set ups, etc. I do not count those fights as real or relevant.

You do realize you're just regurgitating word-for-fucking-word what Rogan and Chael have said, right? I mean it's fine if you have the same opinion. But re-spouting it word-for-word like that makes me wonder if you've just let those guys plant that seed in your head, or if you're a legit zuffa shill. Seems like if it was your own original thought/opinion, you'd phrase it a little differently. Either way, I'm just pointing it out, bro.

 

[Kick Strickland]

I saw a video on YT once.
It had Pride music and edited in a way that it seemed
Frank Mir and Matt Hughes and others made an entrance
in the Pride ring. Anyone know that.

I remember it being called 'Pride Revenge'
But can't find it anymore.

Don't remember ever seeing that but I would like to!