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Name
Pride FC

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Poster

Established
1997 (27 years old)

First Recorded Event
1997-10-11

Current Season
2007

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Fighting

Location
Worldwide

Gender
Male

TV Rights

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Results

Pride 34 (08 Apr 07)

Pride 33 (24 Feb 07)

Shockwave 2006 (31 Dec 06)

Bushido 13 (05 Nov 06)

Pride 32 (21 Oct 06)

Final Conflict Absolute 2006 (10 Sep 06)

Bushido 12 (27 Aug 06)

Critical Countdown Absolute 2006 (01 Jul 06)

Bushido 11 (04 Jun 06)

Total Elimination Absolute 2006 (05 May 06)

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Pride Fighting Championships 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. Pride held 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. For ten years PRIDE was one of the most popular MMA organizations in the world.

In March 2007, Dream Stage Entertainment (DSE) sold Pride to Lorenzo Fertitta and Frank Fertitta III, co-owners of Zuffa, which, at the time, owned the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC). 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. 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. As a result, many of the Pride staff left to form a new organization alongside K-1 parent company Fighting and Entertainment Group. That new organization, founded in February 2008, was named Dream.

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