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Date: June, 8th 2003
US PPV: June, 13th 2003
Location: Yokohama Arena
Attendence: 17.187
Japanese Name: Reborn
Western Name: Bad to the Bone
Card:
Fedor Emelianenko def. Kazuyuki Fujita Submission (Rear-Naked Choke) 4:17
Mirko Cro Cop def. Heath Herring TKO (Kick to the Body and Punches) 3:17
Mark Coleman def. Don Frye Decision (Unanimous)
Quinton Jackson def. Mikhail Ilyukhin Submission (Knee to the Body) 6:26
Alistair Overeem def. Mike Bencic Submission (Knee to the Body and Punches) 3:44
Daiju Takase def. Anderson Silva Submission (Triangle Choke) 8:33
Kazuhiro Hamanaka def. Antonio Schembri Decision (Unanimous)
This card brought us a huuge upset when Takase subbed Anderson Silva, who was the ShootoMW Champ at the time, via Triangle Choke! A loss that still gets pointed out in allmoat every "GOAT" discussion involving A. Silva...
The same night, this happened too:
Quoting Quadros:"OOHH my GOD!!..Fedor is in HUGE trouble here!!!"
After Fujita landed a massive hook on the side of Fedor's head and gave him the stanky leg...(Quadros and Rampage were calling it: 'The Chicken-Dance')...and had him in deep deep trouble...
Those overhooks Fedor went for saved him! As Fujita couldn't manage to get rid of them, he decided to take him down...
Shortly after...Fujita tapped out via getting a purple head (yes...it was purple), by Fedor's comeback RNC...
Bas, Stephen and Quinton all agreed: "What a fight...What a fight!"
Mark Coleman gave Don Frye no chance...and out-muscled and out-wrestled him for a decision victory.
Mark came back after a allmost 2 year layoff...where he had to deal with a neck injury...
The Predator made his 4th appearence for Pride and was a big fan favorite, after having a super underrated fight against Ken Shamrock (of you haven't watched it, go for it, it is a very very very good grudge match between them!...also Shamrocks last good performence) and putting up an all time classic against the original Sexyama, after that he was getting stopped by Yoshida via ref stoppage because Yoshida was about to take Don's arm home with him...and Don just refused to tap out.
(Very very sadly story about Takayama: in 2017 he had a pro wrestling match, where he botched a Sunset Flip, that left him paralyzed from the neck down!!!...he is not expected to recover...fuck man)
A then still slim Overeem defeated Bencic, with a knee to the body and follow up punches.
At the time, Bencic was CroCop's BJJ Coach (who was also in his corner)
Later on...CroCop replaced him with a guy named: Fabricio Werdum
Speaking of CroCop...
His fight with Herring was the one that really put him on the map in MMA...
Heath kept trying to bull-rush CroCop, with no success...he ate a vicious body kick by Mirko and the follow up punches sealed the deal for Filipovic...
Before his fight, Rampage had some fun with the japanese ref, giving him the yellow card right after the staredown.
In his fight before that, against Randleman, he got a yellow card for stalling, where he was like: "Me?!?!?..WTF?!?!"
So this time...he yellowed the ref...
Rampage finished Mikhail with a knee to the ribs, from side control...
Btw. Mikhail ended his career with a record of 30-11...28 wins by submission!
Kazuhiro Hamanaka made his MMA debut on this card.
And got his biggest win of his career against Schembri, in a not so exciting fight.
Schembri was coming into this fight with his own biggest MMA win...a stoppage against the legendary Sakuraba himself. Who just got too over-confident against Elvis, where he started to toy with him in the stand up and giving the crowd a good time to watch. And then BOOM! Knees from Schembri's Thai Clinch! Sakuraba drops on his knees and Schembri goes in with heavy soccer kicks for the finish...BIG upset!
If i remember correctly, Alistair's and Quinton's fights where for the last 2 Spots for the upcoming MW GP 03...which was dope!
Sadly, it was Stephen Quadros last Event commentating for Pride!
Damn...
I think he left because he had some problems with Pride's VP President Jerry Millen...so he just said: Fuck it..or got fired
And btw....Pride26 was actually my very first Pride Event i bought on DVD....and man...i can tell you.. i was fucking pumped when i got it!
US PPV: June, 13th 2003
Location: Yokohama Arena
Attendence: 17.187
Japanese Name: Reborn
Western Name: Bad to the Bone
Card:
Fedor Emelianenko def. Kazuyuki Fujita Submission (Rear-Naked Choke) 4:17
Mirko Cro Cop def. Heath Herring TKO (Kick to the Body and Punches) 3:17
Mark Coleman def. Don Frye Decision (Unanimous)
Quinton Jackson def. Mikhail Ilyukhin Submission (Knee to the Body) 6:26
Alistair Overeem def. Mike Bencic Submission (Knee to the Body and Punches) 3:44
Daiju Takase def. Anderson Silva Submission (Triangle Choke) 8:33
Kazuhiro Hamanaka def. Antonio Schembri Decision (Unanimous)
This card brought us a huuge upset when Takase subbed Anderson Silva, who was the ShootoMW Champ at the time, via Triangle Choke! A loss that still gets pointed out in allmoat every "GOAT" discussion involving A. Silva...
The same night, this happened too:
Quoting Quadros:"OOHH my GOD!!..Fedor is in HUGE trouble here!!!"
After Fujita landed a massive hook on the side of Fedor's head and gave him the stanky leg...(Quadros and Rampage were calling it: 'The Chicken-Dance')...and had him in deep deep trouble...
Those overhooks Fedor went for saved him! As Fujita couldn't manage to get rid of them, he decided to take him down...
Shortly after...Fujita tapped out via getting a purple head (yes...it was purple), by Fedor's comeback RNC...
Bas, Stephen and Quinton all agreed: "What a fight...What a fight!"
Mark Coleman gave Don Frye no chance...and out-muscled and out-wrestled him for a decision victory.
Mark came back after a allmost 2 year layoff...where he had to deal with a neck injury...
The Predator made his 4th appearence for Pride and was a big fan favorite, after having a super underrated fight against Ken Shamrock (of you haven't watched it, go for it, it is a very very very good grudge match between them!...also Shamrocks last good performence) and putting up an all time classic against the original Sexyama, after that he was getting stopped by Yoshida via ref stoppage because Yoshida was about to take Don's arm home with him...and Don just refused to tap out.
(Very very sadly story about Takayama: in 2017 he had a pro wrestling match, where he botched a Sunset Flip, that left him paralyzed from the neck down!!!...he is not expected to recover...fuck man)
A then still slim Overeem defeated Bencic, with a knee to the body and follow up punches.
At the time, Bencic was CroCop's BJJ Coach (who was also in his corner)
Later on...CroCop replaced him with a guy named: Fabricio Werdum
Speaking of CroCop...
His fight with Herring was the one that really put him on the map in MMA...
Heath kept trying to bull-rush CroCop, with no success...he ate a vicious body kick by Mirko and the follow up punches sealed the deal for Filipovic...
Before his fight, Rampage had some fun with the japanese ref, giving him the yellow card right after the staredown.
In his fight before that, against Randleman, he got a yellow card for stalling, where he was like: "Me?!?!?..WTF?!?!"
So this time...he yellowed the ref...
Rampage finished Mikhail with a knee to the ribs, from side control...
Btw. Mikhail ended his career with a record of 30-11...28 wins by submission!
Kazuhiro Hamanaka made his MMA debut on this card.
And got his biggest win of his career against Schembri, in a not so exciting fight.
Schembri was coming into this fight with his own biggest MMA win...a stoppage against the legendary Sakuraba himself. Who just got too over-confident against Elvis, where he started to toy with him in the stand up and giving the crowd a good time to watch. And then BOOM! Knees from Schembri's Thai Clinch! Sakuraba drops on his knees and Schembri goes in with heavy soccer kicks for the finish...BIG upset!
If i remember correctly, Alistair's and Quinton's fights where for the last 2 Spots for the upcoming MW GP 03...which was dope!
Sadly, it was Stephen Quadros last Event commentating for Pride!
Damn...
I think he left because he had some problems with Pride's VP President Jerry Millen...so he just said: Fuck it..or got fired
And btw....Pride26 was actually my very first Pride Event i bought on DVD....and man...i can tell you.. i was fucking pumped when i got it!
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