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The year 2000 was the 4th year in the history of the Pride Fighting Championships, a mixed martial arts promotion based in Japan. 2000 had 6 events beginning with, Pride FC - Grand Prix 2000: Opening Round.
In 2000, Pride hosted the first Pride Grand Prix, a two-part openweight tournament held to find the "world's best fighter". The tournament was held over the course of two events, with sixteen fighters competing in an opening round and the eight winners returning three months later for the final round .
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
Kazushi Sakuraba in 2015. Royce Gracie in 2007. The rivalry between Kazushi Sakuraba from Takada Dojo and the Gracie family of Brazilian jiu-jitsu practitioners started in PRIDE 8, when Sakuraba faced Royler Gracie, though it actually traced back to the first PRIDE Fighting Championships event, PRIDE 1, where Royler's brother Rickson had defeated Sakuraba's stablemaster Nobuhiko Takada. [2]
PRIDE Grand Prix 2000 Finals: May 1, 2000: 2 3:09 Tokyo, Japan PRIDE FC 2000 Openweight Grand Prix Final. Win 42–2 (1) Kazushi Sakuraba: TKO (corner stoppage) 1 15:00 PRIDE FC 2000 Openweight Grand Prix Semifinal. Win 41–2 (1) Gary Goodridge: TKO (punches) 1 10:14 PRIDE FC 2000 Openweight Grand Prix Quarterfinal. Win 40–2 (1) Alexander Otsuka
In September 2004 PRIDE had a disagreement with Gracie about his participation in the 2005 PRIDE Middleweight Grand Prix. Gracie had issues with the proposed opponents and rules (Grand Prix fights must have a winner and cannot end in a draw). He jumped to Fighting and Entertainment Group's K-1 organization. Pride sued Gracie for breaching his ...
Mark Coleman (born December 20, 1964) is an American retired mixed martial artist, professional wrestler and amateur wrestler.Coleman was the UFC 10 and UFC 11 tournament champion, the first UFC Heavyweight Champion, and the Pride Fighting Championships 2000 Open Weight Grand Prix champion.