"Best tournament in the history of the sport.....

 ...without a doubt."



Pat Croat tonight on Strikeforce speaking about the SF HW tourney -





It's a great tournament with some of the fighters signed up.....but let's not start sucking each other's dicks just yet -





Who can ever top the 205 Pride GP's?  The talent in those were incredible from top to bottom -







 

BEST TOURNAMENT OF THE DECADE!!!!!!!!!!!!1

Lol at this so called "tournament". It's contenders fighting each other to get a title shot. Really groundbreaking stuff! Phone Post

If you're really uncomfortable with promotional hyperbole, you prolly shouldn't watch MMA or boxing.

Outside of the 2005 MWGP, it kind of is. The worst fighter is Rogers or AA and there aren't anywhere as bad as some of the Japanese cans they had in the OWGP or HWGP

I like the 03 Pride Tourny.

LWGP of 05 was bad ass too

 here's what I dont get: given the seeding does it mean fedor is 1 and bigfoot is 8?



ubereem 2 werdum 7?




Rogers should be replaced with a prospect like del rosario or cormier atleast their justifyable as a prospect what does rogers have losses to ao and fedor? A victory over aa (who i would take in a rematch), aa is atleast done sumthin in mma Phone Post

Jayjayememay - here's what I dont get: given the seeding does it mean fedor is 1 and bigfoot is 8?

ubereem 2 werdum 7?




No. this isn't football. It means the best fight the best. Werdum is the legit choice for a shot at Overeem's belt. Followed by the Winner of Fedor vs Silva. People are complaining about mismatches but not sure I see any except maybe Barnett vs Rogers but that is a big maybe.

Pride GP 2003 equals SF GP 2011
Wanderlei Silva = Fedor Emalinenenko
Kazushi Sakuraba = Sergei Kharitonov
Quinton Jackson = Alistair Overeem
Chuck Liddell = Josh Barnett
Alistair Overeem = Big Foot Silva
Murilo Bustamante = Fabiricio Werdum
Hidehiko Yoshida = Andrei Arlovski
Kiyoshi Tamura = Brett Rogers

I'd say it's equal to if not better than Pride GP 2003....

if there's any GP who can match the PRIDE 05 MW GP, is this Strikeforce HW GP..

JM2010 - Pride GP 2003 equals SF GP 2011
Wanderlei Silva = Fedor Emalinenenko
Kazushi Sakuraba = Sergei Kharitonov
Quinton Jackson = Alistair Overeem
Chuck Liddell = Josh Barnett
Alistair Overeem = Big Foot Silva
Murilo Bustamante = Fabiricio Werdum
Hidehiko Yoshida = Andrei Arlovski
Kiyoshi Tamura = Brett Rogers

I'd say it's equal to if not better than Pride GP 2003....


Fedor crushes Wanderlei
Sergei crushes sakuraba
Overeem crushes Jackson
Barnett crushes Lidell
Werdum crushes Bustamante
Arlovski crushes Yoshida
Rogers crushes Tamura.

I think Strikeforce tourney > pride gp. Obviously there are weight differences but if I remember the Pride GP correctly it was open weight.

Hard to argue another tourney being as loaded with talented guys Phone Post

Stu Cazzo -  ....but let's not start sucking each other's dicks just yet -
 


SF cant promo self felate like the big boys and every other business?

Pride Grand Prix

The Pride GP (Grand Prix) is the name for a series of tournaments held by Pride. In addition to a money prize, a championship belt was given to the winner of each tournament, though this belt only denoted the tournament winner and would never be defended. However, Pride's Shockwave 2005 event crowned not only the welterweight and lightweight tournament champions, but also Pride's inaugural welterweight and lightweight champions. Of note is the amount of past and future champions that would participate in these tournaments.

In 2000, Pride held their first grand prix. With no weight limits, it is now considered to be their first openweight grand prix. Held across two events, Pride Grand Prix 2000 Opening Round featured first round bouts and Pride Grand Prix 2000 Finals featured the quarter finals, semi finals and final.

The concept was brought back in 2003, with a middleweight grand prix. Held across two cards, Total Elimination 2003 featured the first round of the Grand Prix and Final Conflict 2003 featured the semi finals and final.

Subsequent middleweight, heavyweight and openweight grands prix have taken place across three events when, in 2004, Critical Countdown was introduced for second round bouts. Both Critical Countdown and Final Conflict have a mix of grand prix and non-grand prix matches.

In 2007, it was announced that Pride will hold only one grand prix a year and it will rotate between each of their four established weight classes.[11

SHOCKDWAVE 2005

1 Results
1.1 Charles Bennett vs Ken Kaneko
1.2 Yuki Kondo vs Kazuhiro Nakamura
1.3 Paulo Cesar Silva vs James Thompson
1.4 Sanae Kikuta vs Makoto Takimoto
1.5 Aleksander Emelianenko vs Pawel Nastula
1.6 Fedor Emelianenko vs Zuluzinho
1.7 Welterweight Tournament Final: Murilo Bustamante vs Dan Henderson
1.8 Lightweight Tournament Final: Takanori Gomi vs Hayato Sakurai
1.9 Ikuhisa Minowa vs Kazushi Sakuraba
1.10 Mirko Filipovi? vs Mark Hunt
1.11 Pride Middleweight Championship: Ricardo Arona vs Wanderlei Silva
1.12 Naoya Ogawa vs Hidehiko Yoshida

Pride Grand Prix 2000 Opening Round

Results

Bob Schrijber vs Wanderlei Silva
Silva defeated Schrijber by submission (Rear Naked Choke) 2:42 into the fight.
[edit]First Round
Gary Goodridge vs. Osamu Tachihikari
Goodridge defeated Tachihikari by submission (Forearm Choke) 0:51 into the fight to advance to the quarterfinals.
Ebenezer Fontes Braga vs. Akira Shoji
Shoji won by decision after a 15:00 fight to advance to the quarterfinals.
Kazuyuki Fujita vs. Hans Nijman
Fujita won by submission (Choke) 2:48 into the fight to advance to the quarterfinals.
Guy Mezger vs. Kazushi Sakuraba
Sakuraba won by a controversial forfeit after a 15:00 fight to advance to the quarterfinals. Although Mezger maintained control for much of the fight, all four judges in attendance scored the bout a draw, opting for overtime. Mezger's teammate Ken Shamrock was livid at this decision, and ordered Guy Mezger back to the locker room, forfeiting the fight.
Mark Coleman vs. Masaaki Satake
Coleman won by submission (Neck Crank) 1:14 into the fight to advance to the quarterfinals.
Alexander Otsuka vs. Igor Vovchanchyn
Vovchanchyn won by decision after a 15:00 fight to advance to the quarterfinals.
Enson Inoue vs. Mark Kerr
Kerr won by decision after a 15:00 fight to advance to the quarterfinals.
Royce Gracie vs. Nobuhiko Takada
Gracie won by decision after a 15:00 fight to advance to the quarterfinals.

Pride Grand Prix 2000 Finals

Quarterfinals
Gary Goodridge vs. Igor Vovchanchyn
Vovchanchyn defeated Goodridge by TKO at 10:14 into Round 1.
Royce Gracie vs. Kazushi Sakuraba
Sakuraba defeated Royce Gracie by TKO (Corner Stoppage) after 90 minutes of fighting. The rules were modified for this bout so that the number of rounds was unlimited and there were no referee stoppages. After the sixth 15-minute round, Royce could no longer continue due to damage to his legs. His corner threw in the towel.
Mark Coleman vs. Akira Shoji
Coleman defeated Shoji by judge's decision.
Kazuyuki Fujita vs. Mark Kerr
Fujita defeated Kerr by judge's decision.
[edit]Non-Tournament Bout
Guy Mezger vs. Masaaki Satake
Mezger defeated Satake by judge's decision.
[edit]Semifinals
Kazushi Sakuraba vs. Igor Vovchanchyn
Vovchanchyn defeated Sakuraba by TKO at the end of Round 1. Sakuraba held his own with Vovchanchyn, despite his extended fight earlier in the night. Exhaustion ultimately got the best of Sakuraba, and his corner threw in the towel after Round 1 was completed and called draw. His final total for the night was 105 minutes of fighting.
Mark Coleman vs. Kazuyuki Fujita
Coleman defeated Fujita by TKO. Fujita, suffering from injuries from his previous fight with Kerr, forfeited the match immediately,effectively giving Coleman a bye into the finals.
[edit]Superfight
Alexander Otsuka vs. Ken Shamrock
Shamrock defeated Otsuka by TKO, 9:43 into the first round. The referee stopped the fight as Otsuka was succumbing to Shamrock's punches.
[edit]Finals
Mark Coleman vs. Igor Vovchanchyn
Coleman defeated Vovchanchyn by submission, 3:09 into Round 2. Vovchanchyn tapped out as Coleman was delivering several knee strikes to his head. With his victory, Mark Coleman won the Pride Grand Prix championship and a $200,000 prize.
[edit]

Pride Total Elimination 2003

Tournament quarterfinal matches
[edit] Chuck Liddell vs. Alistair Overeem
UFC representative Chuck Liddell knocked out Alistair Overeem with several consecutive punches at 3:09 in the first round.
[edit] Murilo Bustamante vs. Quinton Jackson
Jackson was victorious via split decision over Murilo Bustamante. Bustamante replaced fellow Brazilian Top Team member Ricardo Arona in the tournament. Arona was unable to take part due to a broken ankle.
[edit] Kiyoshi Tamura vs. Hidehiko Yoshida
Hidehiko Yoshida defeated Kiyoshi Tamura by submission with a sleeve choke 5:06 into the first round.
[edit] Kazushi Sakuraba vs. Wanderlei Silva
PRIDE Middleweight Champion Wanderlei Silva knocked out Kazushi Sakuraba with a left-right combination 5:01 into the fight.
[edit]Other matches
[edit] Fedor Emelianenko vs. Gary Goodridge
PRIDE Heavyweight Champion Fedor Emelianenko defeats Gary Goodridge 1:09 in round 1 by TKO. Fedor's aggressive ground and pound quickly forced a referee stoppage.
[edit] Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira vs. Ricco Rodriguez
Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira won a controversial unanimous decision over Ricco Rodriguez.
[edit] Mirko "Cro Cop" Filipovi? vs. Igor Vovchanchyn
"Cro Cop" knocked out Igor Vovchanchyn with a left high kick to the head 1:29 into the fight.