![]() ![]() This style was more realistic, using full contact strikes and a lot of kicks, as well as realistic grappling moves from his Catch Wrestling training. In the 1970s, Antonio Inoki rose to pronominance in Japan by founding New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) and introducing his own style of wrestling he dubbed "Strong-style", derived from training in Karate and Catch-As-Catch-Can, an earlier style of legit Professional wrestling and submission grappling, taught by Karl Gotch. Pride has its roots on Japanese Professional wrestling ( Puroresu). In 2015, Pride's co-founder and former president Nobuyuki Sakakibara established Rizin Fighting Federation in Japan with the same philosophy and ambition as for the defunct Pride organization. That new organization, founded in February 2008, was named DREAM. As a result, many of the Pride staff left to form a new organization alongside K-1 parent company Fighting and Entertainment Group. While the top and most popular fighters were brought to the UFC. However, such an arrangement did not materialize, and in October 2007, Pride Worldwide's Japanese staff was laid off, marking the end of the organization as an active fight promoter. While remaining as legally separate entities with separate managements, the two promotions were set to cooperate in a manner akin to the AFL-NFL merger. In March 2007, DSE sold Pride to Lorenzo Fertitta and Frank Fertitta III, co-owners of Zuffa, which, at the time, owned the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC). In 2006, DSE started to have financial issues, as a scandal revealing ties between the company and yakuza resulted in the end of multiple lucrative contracts with Japanese broadcasters. Matches were done in a boxing-style roped ring and went for an opening ten minute round followed by two rounds of five minutes. The PRIDE ruleset was also more permissive then the Unified Rules of Mixed Martial Arts, permitting soccer kicks, stomps and knees to downed opponents, body slams directly in the head ("spiking"), and allowed more fighting outfits, including wrestling shoes and keikogis. ![]() Pride also had the Grand Prix, one-night single-elimination tournaments with multiple fighters. Including the frequent promotion of "technique vs size" freakshow fights. There was no formal weight classes-except for championship belt bouts and the Grand Prix tournaments-and fighters would often matched with opponents from wildly different weights. Events were proceeded with opening ceremonies and fighters had elaborate entrances. With its origins in Japanese professional wrestling, PRIDE was known for its focus on spectacle and entertainment. Pride broadcast its event on Japanese pay-per-view and free-to-air television for millions of spectators in Japan, holding large events in sports stadiums, including the largest live MMA event audience record of 91,107 people at the Pride and K-1 co-production, Shockwave/Dynamite, held in August 2002, as well as the audience record of over 67,450 people at the Pride Final Conflict 2003. PRIDE was owned by the holding company Dream Stage Entertainment (DSE).įor the ten years of its existence, PRIDE was one of the most popular MMA organizations in the world. Pride held more than sixty mixed martial arts events, broadcast to about 40 countries worldwide. Its inaugural event was held at the Tokyo Dome on October 11, 1997. ![]() PRIDE Fighting Championships ( Pride or Pride FC, founded as KRS-Pride) was a Japanese mixed martial arts promotion company. ![]()
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