PRIDE Fighting Championships

By rss@youtube.com (doliveij) Who had the best KO and Sub of the year? Who was 2008's best fighter? Which was the best event? What call was the absolute worst? Who received the greatest beat down? And more ... Keywords: The MMA Analyst Best of 2008 UFC PRIDE FC DREAM Sengoku K1 Fedor Rampage Aoki Roundup GSP Liddell Silva Lesn...

2 min - 2008-05-10 The origins and creation of the HW Champion Fedor Emelianko. A high light made by Mick Bianchi.

By rss@youtube.com (bdequinia) This is a video I made of PRIDE FC "The Real Deal" when PRIDE FC came to Las Vegas. Almost a year later I finally made a video. Feel free to comment and let me know what you think. Author: bdequinia Keywords: PRIDE FC MMA UFC Fedor Coleman Shogun Randleman Barnett Butterbean Baroni Nakamura Vegas

By Jason Eisenhorn Lots of wrestlers have learned striking and became great MMA fighters—Dan Henderson, Randy Couture, Matt Hughes, Josh Koscheck, and Matt Hamill to name a few. Wrestling is one of the best base skills to have as an MMA fighter, but it doesn't guarantee there won't be holes in your game.

By Jesse Holland Former PRIDE and current WAMMA Heavyweight Champion Fedor Emelianenko (31-1) will be out of action for up to six weeks as a result of hand surgery that was required to repair a dislocated thumb suffered in his Nov. 7 fight against Brett Rogers, according to Sherdog.com.

ESPN Dana White, Fedor Emelianenko and Sour Grapes blog) Ever since the fall of PRIDE, there have been a lot of hard feelings between the UFC and Emelianenko's camp and I suspect a great deal of that has been "The ... Blood Looks Good, or Why I'm Not Impressed with Brett RogersBleacher Report

That said, I still kinda like Strikeforce. Scott Coker has made money before. I even enjoyed the show on Saturday (well, Jake Shields can go away for a long, long time). Fedor IS good. Somehow he escaped the fate that befell CroCop, Shogun, Wanderlei Silva, and everyone else from PRIDE: lookin...

By Andrew Nuschler The UFC exploded in popularity and the sport of mixed martial arts along with it. However, the burgeoning love affair with the masses passed through a filter controlled by Dana White and company. Millions of new fans became familiar with his darling and little else in the world of MMA.

By Marcus Walker Remember my PRIDE article and the Alistair Overeem “Crap, THREE more minutes?” Face? Step aside, Ali. Soko is the new king of this face. The only difference is that he makes it during five minute rounds. After that, it’s a matter of time before he gets “caught” in an arm triangle, or a like-mind...

By Jesse Holland Prediction: Emelianenko via submission Backgrounds: Miller: Shields: Backgrounds: Mousasi: Sokoudjou: Prediction: Mousasi via submission 265 lbs.: Fabricio “Vai Cavalo” Werdum (12-4-1) vs. Antonio “Junior” Silva (13-1) Backgrounds: Werdum: Silva: Silva: +140 ((Bet Now))

By Jason Eisenhorn The ring is Emelianenko's natural fighting environment, and many other great PRIDE fighters have shown "ring rust" when adapting to the challenges of a chain-linked enclosed mat.  Looking back to Fedor's fights in PRIDE, no single moment stands out where the cage could have hurt his per...

By Mitch Ciccarelli 8. Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira vs. Mirko “Cro Cop” Filipovic (PRIDE Final Conflict 2003) Honorable Mentions: Quinton Jackson vs. Ricardo Arona, Fedor Emelianenko vs. Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira, Royce Gracie vs. Kazushi Sakuraba, Bob Sapp vs. Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira, Mark Hunt vs. Yosuke Nish...

By Mike Leanza Gegard "The Dreamcatch" Mousasi is a 24 year old MMA prodigy. Currently holding a both the DREAM Middleweight Championship and the Strikeforce Light-Heavyweight championship, he is currently the only fighter holding a title in two major MMA promotions.

By Jesse Holland –Fedor Emelianenko balks at the accusation that he’s a sloppy fighter. –Brett Rogers can’t see any scenario where Fedor would try to keep it standing because of Emelianenko’s submission pedigree. Says he closes his eyes and sees Fedor knocked out.

By James Iannotti Several of the promotion’s other top fighters will be in action on the card as well, including a Strikeforce middleweight title bout pitting Jake Shields vs. Jason “Mayhem” Miller for the 185-pound belt recently vacated by budding film star Cung Le.

By Press Release Fabricio “Vai Cavalo” Werdum will face Antonio “Junior” Silva in a matchup of two promising Brazilian heavyweights. Werdum is a two-time Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu world champion and a submission expert while Silva has nine KOs in his 13 victories. Werdum, a former PRIDE and UFC standout, is co...

By E. Spencer Kyte Filipovic has faced a Who's Who of champions and challengers over his career, including Fedor and Aleksander Emelianenko, Josh Barnett, Wanderlei Silva and "Minotauro" Noguiera. As impressive as "Cigano" has been in his two UFC wins, the former PRIDE Open Weight Grand Prix champion ha...

By Kris Karkoski Emelianenko (30-1) brings a 26-fight win streak into the contest that includes a reign as the heavyweight champion of PRIDE as well as back-to-back victories over Tim Sylvia and Andrei Arlovski in his most-recent fights. Emelianenko (30-1) brings a 26-fight win streak into the contest...

By Jesse Holland Props: SportsRadioInterviews.com Quoteworthy: "Life is kinda moving along pretty fast now, especially after this (Andre) Arlovski fight. I feel this is well deserved, I mean, everything that happened, happened for a reason, and I was the one to complete it. I feel that I’m a different fig...

By Jesse Holland By now it’s no secret that former PRIDE FC Heavyweight Champion and Affliction headliner Fedor Emelianenko is being vigorously pursued by most of the world’s mixed martial arts promotions following the untimely demise of his previous employer. Topping the list of potential suitors is...

as the most successful fighter in the history of the sport, against Josh Barnett. Emelianenko has been considered the top heavyweight since he beat Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira on March 16, 2003, in Yokohama, Japan to capture the PRIDE championship. ...

 OH It's not about acting like a child, the fact is that Fedor is the only PRIDE champion above 160 to call the UFC contract unreasonable. Machida isn't fighting in Karate tournaments anymore. Fedor could give up Sambo for a year and a half. ...

 IL Ivanov's opponent, Fujita (15-7-1), is an experienced MMA fighter and pro wrestler. Fujita is arguably the fighter closest to beating Fedor. At PRIDE 26 in June 2003, Fujita dazed Fedor with a right but would end up succumbing to a rear-naked choke.

On the card, Russow beat PRIDE veteran Roman Zentsov with a north-south choke in the first round — notable because Zentsov trains with Fedor Emelianenko, widely regarded as the top pound-for-pound fighter in the world. As a police officer, Russow works ...

For this third event they are once again headlining with a bout featuring Fedor Emelianenko, this time against yet another former UFC Heavyweight Champion and longtime PRIDE fighter Josh Barnett. Now I'll preface the remainder of this piece by stating ...

 OH Emelianenko told the website he considers Barnett a friend and feels no need to avenge his brother's loss to Barnett, who defeated Aleksander Emelianenko at a 2006 PRIDE event. "There is no desire for revenge," Fedor stated. "This is a totally separate ...

 OH He fights with almost no expression, similar to former PRIDE heavyweight champion Fedor Emelianenko. He's elusive and defensive and, well, different. Evans, the man who needs to figure it out, and fast, says simply that Machida's style is "interesting" ...

 OH The 32-year-old former PRIDE champ is undefeated in his past 27 fights. Aoki (20-4), a standout grappler who's ended 12 of his 20 career wins via submission, last competed in April, when he suffered a 27-second TKO loss to welterweight Hayato Sakurai ...

 OH While "The Hammer" fought Rua in Ireland, the NSAC previously licensed a 41-year-old Coleman to fight Fedor Emelianenko in October 2006. Coleman was submitted by the current WAMMA heavyweight champion in the second round of the PRIDE 32 bout. ...

 OH Out Of all the places in the world to put up a stadium, this was the only place for us, and we're gonna Love Seeing the UFC here." Notice all those capitalized words in the last paragraph? They spell APRIL FOOLS. Emelianenko, a longtime PRIDE ...

A UFC fighter is ranked first in four of the five weight classes UFC promotes. The big exception is heavyweight, where Russian Fedor Emelianenko is the unanimous No. 1. When UFC bought out Japan's Pride promotion, Emelianenko went elsewhere. ...

A UFC fighter is ranked first in four of the five weight classes UFC promotes. The big exception is heavyweight, where Russian Fedor Emelianenko is the unanimous No. 1. When UFC bought out Japan's Pride promotion, Emelianenko went elsewhere. ...

A UFC fighter is ranked first in four of the five weight classes UFC promotes. The big exception is heavyweight, where Russian Fedor Emelianenko is the unanimous No. 1. When UFC bought out Japan's Pride promotion, Emelianenko went elsewhere. ...

A UFC fighter is ranked first in four of the five weight classes UFC promotes. The big exception is heavyweight, where Russian Fedor Emelianenko is the unanimous No. 1. When UFC bought out Japan's Pride promotion, Emelianenko went elsewhere. ...

By ben Beginning with one of the greatest face-offs in MMA history — which pitted Thompson’s theatrical fury against Aleks’s nose-picking stoicism — it was clear that this fight was going to provide an entertaining clash of styles. Thompson’s ridiculous “gong-and-dash” routine actually su...

By ben According to our current poll, about 75% of you think Fedor Emelianenko is going to beat Andrei Arlovski during their "Day of Reckoning" main event fight on January 24th. (Also, more of you think the fight will end with a no contest due to accidental cut than a submission win for Arlovski.) Th...

By Todd Jackson When I first started watching MMA, I was torn between the pioneer days of The Ultimate Fighting Championship and Pride Fighting Championships. The kings amongst kings, Royce Gracie, Don Frye, Wanderlei Silva, Fedor Emeliananko.  These names were bore by such intriguing and fearless f...

By Tom Grant So the fact that Fedor is 28-1 is one of the most outstanding feats in sports, regardless of who he fights. And this is not to say his fights have been weak, he dominated PRIDE, a league on par with the UFC in terms of fighter talent. Fedor has an outstanding chin and can stand with any fighter, but...

By ben — Frank Trigg has signed a non-exclusive three-fight deal with World Victory Road, and has agreed to make his debut with the organization at Sengoku 4 on August 24th, against an opponent to be named later. The 37-year-old fighter hasn’t competed since his submission victory over Edwin De...

 IA - Emelianenko, a Russian who held the championship in the now-defunct PRIDE organization, is WAMMA’s top-ranked heavyweight fighter. ...

By Derek Bolender Couture is one of the most popular UFC fighters of all-time and he sports a 16-8 lifetime record, including victories over former UFC Light Heavyweight Champion Chuck Liddell, Vitor Belfort, former UFC Light Heavyweight Champion Tito Ortiz, former UFC Heavyweight Champion Tim Sylvi...

By Colonel Balz The 31-year-old Emelianenko is undefeated in 24 fights (including a no contest against former PRIDE champion Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira in 2004). Couture, 13 years the Russian Sambo champion’s senior, has chiseled his name into the history book’s pages by conquering more than a handful of bouts he was never meant to win. A national representative for Sambo in his homeland, Emelianenko committed to the M-1 Global promotion in October. White retracted statements that Emelianenko was the world’s top fighter shortly afterwards. Couture reiterated Friday that he will not violate his two UFC contracts until their clocks run out; the non-compete clause on his employment agreement ends in October.   [read the full post]

By Kid Nate UFC's acquisition of PRIDE was supposed to fix all that. But PRIDE imports Cro Cop, Big Nog, Werdum and Heath Herring have all been pretty much duds so far. And of course they tried and failed to sign Fedor, lost Randy and refuse to ...

By Adam Morgan The UFC will only cross promote when it’s in their best interest to do so. When they sent Chuck Liddell to PRIDE in 2003, there was a real possibility that Chuck would eventually fight Wanderlei Silva and that he would beat him, thus ending the debate about PRIDE fighters vs. UFC fighters. Even...

By Mike David Depending on who you talk to, the 12/31 show is either a farewell to PRIDE's loyal fanbase in Japan or possibly the start of something bigger. Many of the employees who were laid off by Zuffa when the PRIDE office in Japan was closed ...

By MMA Junkie In the past two years, Emelianenko has a perfect 4-0 record. He needed just 26 seconds to beat 400-pound “Zuluzinho” (2-3) into submission at a PRIDE Shockwave 2005 event. Then, Emelianenko scored a second-round submission over 41-year-old Mark Coleman (15-8) at PRIDE 32, a first-round...

By Jesse Holland PRIDE FC Heavyweight Champion Fedor Emelianenko announced that he has signed a six-fight, two-year fight contract with M-1 Global — a new mixed martial arts organization — today at a press conference at Marc Ecko Enterprises in downtown Manhattan.

Rich Franklin to Retire?  - Nogueira had the benefit of leaving PRIDE for the UFC once Fedor bested him three times, but I think something similar can happen for Franklin should he ...

By UFCmania – The latest development in the development-laden negotiation process between the Russian mixed martial arts heavyweight superstar and the UFC. Emelianenko seems to have settled on the organization (M-1) that was just recently owned and operated by his long-time manager, Vadim Fink...

By UFCmania Note: Read this entire article if you can — it has some solid information about PRIDE FC, Fedor Emelianenko and the feud between Sherdog and White.) UFC President Dana White is confident that mixed martial arts (MMA) will one day become an Olympic event, according to an interview with The O...

By UFCmania – UFC Heavyweight Champion Randy Couture carefully touches on a potential showdown with PRIDE FC Heavyweight Champion Fedor Emelianenko in a Q&A with CBSSportsline.com. Before a dream match up like that can even happen “The Natural” has to take care of Gabriel Gonzaga at UFC 74 on Aug...