Was Pride 2 the Worst MMA Event of All Time?

[EndlessCritic]

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Pride 2 took place Sunday, March 15, 1998 with 6 fights at Yokohama Arena in Yokohama, Japan. View fight card, video, results, predictions, and news.

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While people tend to speak fondly of Royce Gracie's legendary 90 minute fight against Sakuraba, people tend to gloss over the fact that it wasn't the only titanic-length fight in Pride's history.

Notably, at Pride 2, Renzo Gracie fought Sanae Kikuta for over 75 minutes, in what was unquestionably one of the worst fights of all time -- especially when one considers how long it was.

It wasn't the only horrendous fight on the card. Royler Gracie also fought Yuhi Sano for over 30 minutes in a fight in which barely any strikes were thrown.

Is Pride 2 the worst MMA event of all time?

 

[Hellowhosthat]

UFC 33 was up there, that was absolutely terrible.

all main card fights were decisions and 3 of them were boring 5 round title fights.

 

[13Seconds]

I don't know but I was at UFC 149 and it was beyond terrible. The amount of people that left during the main card was staggering.

Also, alot of regional shows sucks.

 

[markantony20]

It’s good if you’re taking a Herculean effort shit.

 

[Necrocrawler]

Didn't knew Royce Gracie was supposed to fight Mark Kerr on it.

 

[xentreos]

I don't know but I was at UFC 149 and it was beyond terrible. The amount of people that left during the main card was staggering.

Also, alot of regional shows sucks.

Oh wow blast from the past i remember that card. Dude doing the splits after Koing some guy on the under card was the only note worthy thing to happen. I loved cheik Kongo, but man could he stink up a card lol

Edit: Ryan Jimmo(RIP)! Couldn't remember his name, that was epic. Had to look up that fight card, yeah Hector Lombard vs tim boetsch is just a ridiculous co main event like what the hell.

 

[Streeter]

The last PPV gotta up there

 

[Xuh]

No because it's PRIDE and the merest sight of the Holy Glowing Ring by itself raises it above any event that took place in a trashy cage

 

[TeenageMutantLesnarTurtle]

A lot of early Pride was pretty shitty tbh, the UFC was pretty bad in the late 90s/very early 00s too.

Pride started really picking up around 14/15 imo.

 

[EndlessCritic]

UFC 33 was up there, that was absolutely terrible.

all main card fights were decisions and 3 of them were boring 5 round title fights.

And yet all 3 of those fights combined were shorter than Renzo/Kikuta.

 

[Lycandroid]

the first few pride cards are almost unwatchable except for a few fights

 

[m249viking]

some terrible fights throughout mma, fat Tank vs fat Ferroza comes to mind, Rose laid a huge stinker recently. I can think of a lot of crap fights. Remembering which overall card was the worst is difficult.

 

[Hellowhosthat]

Was it Royce Vs Takada where literally nothing happened all fight?

 

[Bobby Boulders]

The first handful of PRIDE events were hard to get through. They eventually hit their stride

 

[pick999]

Ufc 149 was worst ppv ever

 

[GIBLERTBAPTISTA]

Was Royler vs Sano the fight where Royler sat in mount for 95% of the fight doing nothing and Bas got so bored he started doing scarface impressions. If so, yes. worst ppv ever.

 

[Taric]

A lot of early Pride was pretty shitty tbh, the UFC was pretty bad in the late 90s/very early 00s too.

Pride started really picking up around 14/15 imo.

All of this is true.

 

[Gamer2k4]

Oh wow blast from the past i remember that card. Dude doing the splits after Koing some guy on the under card was the only note worthy thing to happen. I loved cheik Kongo, but man could he stink up a card lol

Edit: Ryan Jimmo(RIP)! Couldn't remember his name, that was epic. Had to look up that fight card, yeah Hector Lombard vs tim boetsch is just a ridiculous co main event like what the hell.

 

[eiyuu]

PRIDE 2 was the first PRIDE event I had read about (I think it was in Black Belt magazine.)

The names involved got me wanting to find a way to watch these events.

Luckily I found a Japanese video store that had bootleg tapes a few months later.

 

[JBJ was here]

UFC 9 was the worst MMA event ever. No other answers are allowed.