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Now fighting exclusively in PRIDE, Cro Cop's 7th MMA fight was against former title challenger Heath Herring, who sported a 20–8 record and had gone the distance with current champion Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira in addition to fighting soon-to-be champion Fedor Emelianenko, against whom he lost when the doctor had to stop the fight after the 1st ...
PRIDE Fighting Championships (Pride or Pride FC, founded as KRS-Pride) was a Japanese mixed martial arts promotion company. Its inaugural event was held at the Tokyo Dome on October 11, 1997. Pride held more than sixty mixed martial arts events, broadcast to about 40 countries worldwide. [ 1 ]
With a special clause in his Pride contract that allowed him to fight under the banner of any MMA organization as long as the event was held on Russian soil, [citation needed] Emelianenko accepted a match in BodogFight against Matt Lindland. The fight was held on 14 April 2007 at the "Clash of the Nations" event in St. Petersburg, Russia.
Josh Barnett, the Absolute Grand Prix runner up, was also a contender to face Emelianenko, as mentioned by the heavyweight champion in a Pride 32 post-fight press conference, but was "not in the best condition" to compete and instead fought Antônio Rodrigo Nogueira in a rematch and lost that fight to. [2]
Pride Grand Prix 2000 Opening Round Pride Grand Prix 2000 Finals: Openweight Mark Coleman: Igor Vovchanchyn: May 1, 2000 Pride Total Elimination 2003 Pride Final Conflict 2003: Middleweight Wanderlei Silva: Quinton Jackson: November 9, 2003 Pride Total Elimination 2004 Pride Critical Countdown 2004 Pride Final Conflict 2004 Pride Shockwave 2004 ...
Event Japanese name Date held Venue City Attendance 1 Pride 1 — October 11, 1997: Tokyo Dome: Tokyo, Japan: 47,000 2 Pride 2 — March 15, 1998: Yokohama Arena
Pride FC: Final Conflict 2003 [5] was an event held on November 9, 2003, at the Tokyo Dome in Tokyo, Japan. This event was host to the semi-finals and finals of the 2003 Pride Middleweight Grand Prix tournament. The first round of the tournament was contested at the Pride: Total Elimination 2003 event the previous August.
2011: Fight of the Year vs. Maurício Rua 1 [69], Ranked #6 Fighter of the Year (Tied with Nate Diaz) [70] 2014: Ranked #6 Knockout of the Year [71] & Ranked #9 Fight of the Year vs. Maurício Rua 2 [72] 2016: Ranked #9 Knockout of the Year vs. Héctor Lombard [73] Pride Fighting Championships. Pride Middleweight Championship (One time; Last)