Why Create a Pride Fighting Tribute
It was necessary to create this website to honor what a great and exciting organization Pride Fighting Championships was and to show newer MMA enthusiasts (Post Pride era fans) how awesome, large scale, and brutal Mixed Martial Arts used to be.
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The first time I ever saw a Pride fight, it was shocking.
At the same time I realized this was skilled fighting, and not some bar room type brawl by drunken idiots. The moves and techniques I saw the fighters using definitely required some training. Not to mention the endurance required to fight ten minute opening rounds. This all fascinated me.
Now as a boy, I grew up watching the early UFC's 1-10 with friends. Those are historically important to mixed martial arts as well, but in a different way. The skill level of the fighters on those early UFC's was nothing to what I was seeing in these Pride fights.
Pride was something different from those early UFC's. I don't exactly consider the early UFC's a "sport" per se because of the rules, but not completely barbaric either (no biting, eye gouging, etc). Aside from the skill and speed level of the Pride fighters, Pride just seemed more professional.
Pride fighting was the most violent thing I have ever witnessed and still be considered a sport. It was an ultimate test of manhood. I have nothing but respect for the fighters who stepped into the Pride ring under those rules.
The spectacle of Pride was unlike anything ever seen before or since for mixed martial arts. Events were a huge production, every event had sold out arenas with anywhere from twenty thousand to sixty thousand people. Fighters in Pride were given lavish entrances before entering the ring. I think this is the closet thing to ancient Roman gladiatorial combat, which was wildly popular back then.
Please look around and enjoy this site. Thanks for visiting.
It was necessary to create this website to honor what a great and exciting organization Pride Fighting Championships was and to show newer MMA enthusiasts (Post Pride era fans) how awesome, large scale, and brutal Mixed Martial Arts used to be.
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The first time I ever saw a Pride fight, it was shocking.
At the same time I realized this was skilled fighting, and not some bar room type brawl by drunken idiots. The moves and techniques I saw the fighters using definitely required some training. Not to mention the endurance required to fight ten minute opening rounds. This all fascinated me.
Now as a boy, I grew up watching the early UFC's 1-10 with friends. Those are historically important to mixed martial arts as well, but in a different way. The skill level of the fighters on those early UFC's was nothing to what I was seeing in these Pride fights.
Pride was something different from those early UFC's. I don't exactly consider the early UFC's a "sport" per se because of the rules, but not completely barbaric either (no biting, eye gouging, etc). Aside from the skill and speed level of the Pride fighters, Pride just seemed more professional.
Pride fighting was the most violent thing I have ever witnessed and still be considered a sport. It was an ultimate test of manhood. I have nothing but respect for the fighters who stepped into the Pride ring under those rules.
The spectacle of Pride was unlike anything ever seen before or since for mixed martial arts. Events were a huge production, every event had sold out arenas with anywhere from twenty thousand to sixty thousand people. Fighters in Pride were given lavish entrances before entering the ring. I think this is the closet thing to ancient Roman gladiatorial combat, which was wildly popular back then.
Please look around and enjoy this site. Thanks for visiting.
