PRIDE Fighting Championships (PRIDE or PRIDE FC for short) is a major mixed martial arts organization based in Japan, and currently promoted by Dream Stage Entertainment (DSE). Its inaugural event was held at the Tokyo Dome on October 11, 1997. PRIDE has since held more than sixty mixed martial arts events. As one of the most popular MMA organizations in the world, PRIDE broadcasts to about 40 countries worldwide.PRIDE also holds 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, as well as the audience record of over 67,450 people at the PRIDE Final Conflict 2003.
PRIDE holds several series of events in addition to its main, "numbered" PRIDE events. In 2000 and each year since 2003, PRIDE has held a series of Grand Prix events, where a sixteen-man field is narrowed down to one champion over the course of two or three events. From 2003 until 2006, PRIDE also held Bushido events, which mainly focused on the two lower weight classes, lightweights and welterweights. Another short-lived series, PRIDE The Best, which featured up and coming PRIDE fighters, lasted for a year in 2002 and used an eight-sided roped ring.
The first PRIDE event held in the United States of America, The Real Deal, was held in October, 2006, at the Thomas and Mack Center on the UNLV campus in Las Vegas, Nevada.
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