I just decided to go through my PRIDE collection. Im telling you PRIDE's legendary status will increase exponentially over the years espcially as they heralded the golen era of MMA with some of the best fighters in the world and the most entertaining shows in the history of this sport.
I used to love watching the old PRIDE events. Unfortunately I lost them all. As I'm really a late comer to the sport (having only followed it since around the Silva-Hendo fight), I kept seeing Pride highlights on youtube and wanted to see the whole events. As such I decided to download every event from Pride, which was 90GB worth I think. Needless to say it ****ed up my hard drive....at least I think it did. Luckily I managed to see all of them before I lost the hard drive.:verysad Pride should be remembered though. Some of the best fights and fighters took place on Pride cards. I loved the intros.
I Agree Pride was geared towards entertaining people. From the entrances to the carding. This I feel is whats getting lost in MMA now. People like Frye, Wand and Saku would ****in stand up and compromise their strenghts for the fans enjoyment.
Thats mainly because of their styles. In PRIDE you got yellow carded if there wasnt enough action and you lost a percentage of your purse. The rules were adapted to ensure the most amount of action ie no elblows on the ground to prevent cuts, and knees and stomps on the ground being allowed. Thats far more exciting than the rules of the UFC/Cage. The entire show was literally an event akin to a Wrestlemania. 10's of thousand in attendance. Respectful fans. The excellent Screaming lady and all the fanfare and props that accompanied the event. Best MMA show on earth as far as im concerned. When i watch a show i want to be entertained. The UFC just doesnt do that for me as a product and as a whole.
I like UFC, but I gotta agree that the fight Lesnar-Herring is an exemple why knee and stomp should be allowed to prevent fighter to make a turtle out of them
I was wondering when you were going to start a thread like this it has been a while for you.....:good
And the UFC has kinda steered away from that, they should take a cue from Vince McMahon, especially if his former fighter is your HW champ. Dana has tried his best to compete with Boxing and herein lies his problem. He wants MMA to be viewed as some kind of Sweet Science with all the techniques and intricacies And there is a bunch followers of this movement by Dana, they are MMA purists/connoisseurs who cums when someone is taken down. The problem is you cant be a connoissuer of bad wine. The UFC is still unrefined as a sport and the people prefer to be entertained first. Most fans still wants to see action and good action not some fluke KOs or 5 minutes of rolling around. Sooner or later they would get tired of a Serra haymaker that knocks out the best WW in the world. Rogan: did you see him go to half guard so quickly??? OMFG!! This guys top of the food chain!!
Technique? The man criticised Silva's performance and said it was unsportsmanlike. Well Dana thats martial arts!
Ajax, always here to spoil our memories of PrideFC. Thanks for stopping by. When you're done take Dana's ***** out of your mouth and let us all know how much better the UFC is then PrideFC was and how everything UFC is the greatest.
He cant AJAX is on the UFC payroll. Im pretty sure he was one of those dopy Canadian fans screaming GSP!
I never said the UFC was better then pride back in the day, I enjoyed watching pride events when they were on top, but listening to you guys post a "I miss Pride" thread every couple of weeks is humourous. You all get your Dana White Voodoo doll and take turns sticking pins in it. I just don't ***** and complain about everything and enjoy the fights we get. I'm not sure if you guys are girls with the amount of bitching that goes on around here.