PRIDE 1 | Full Event Replay

The show that started it all! On October 11th, 1997, PRIDE 1 debuted at the Tokyo Dome and started an MMA revolution in Japan. The inaugural event featured several former UFC stars and was headlined by a clash between Nobuhiko Takada and Rickson Gracie.
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[@Supertoxie1]

Wow. Great idea for putting this on YT. Never let these historic events die. Make them free so people can see.

[@josebqz5146]

YESSSSS

[@nickacelvn]

Good man. Nice comment.

[@Pdotta1]

Yes thanks for this.

[@gratefuldrifter6588]

you speak the truth my brother,love pride man,best combat fighting,the rules i respect.And dam man they had the best soldiers in that organization .Rizin is the new one i watch,just the whole japan fighting is dope as.respect from nz.

[@Laneganswake]

Too bad it's one of the worst free fights ever

[@Patrick-et2bq]

@ 1:10 Murakami Kazunari vs John Dixon @ 5:23 Gary Goodridge vs Oleg Taktarov @ 14:08 Akira Shoji vs Renzo Gracie @ 48:28 Nathan Jones vs Mitsuharu Kitao @ 54:03 Ralph White vs Branko Cikatic @ 1:03:51 Kimo Leopoldo vs Dan Severn @ 1:36:42 Rickson Gracie vs Nobuhiko Takada

[@stennilsen9584]

Thank you

[@markcorrigan3930]

Good job

[@davem6749]

Nice work 👊

[@monsterchoon]

0:21 hell yeah

[@thomasschopflin6317]

Thank you, sir!

[@Krezo200]

Pride fc is the best mma organization ever!!!!

[@overtime-gp5mo]

why it is the best, the pride will not even enter the top 3 best organizations pride fighters are weak in terms of technology

[@jonbrown853]

This was a pretty boring card of fights though

[@vishnulalwani5283]

Gracies were the best

[@kanegarvey848]

@@jonbrown853 it happens

[@Haze2121]

Said no one ever 😂

[@grendelz]

Pride was the greatest. The tournaments they had were some of the best fights ever televised.

[@MindOverMatterBjj420]

Pride Never Die 👊⚡

[@serpentinefire921]

Just bleed

[@matimus100]

No it's in soho

[@Gizmetti]

I wasn't old enough to watch these when they were airing. But man, I feel like I missed out on a once in a lifetime era.

[@SubPablum]

More Pride please, I love it!

[@gratefuldrifter6588]

you and me to brother

[@yaushaeomessias]

Dana Slap wants to hide it.

[@sanseroee]

Today's UFC is not even close to Pride FC of those days... It was so nice to see different styles and a lot of almost clean techniques! Sambo vs Karate, Judo vs Muay Thai etc... And what we have today? MMA vs MMA....

[@nihatgurbuz4175]

Thats absolutely true. Today’s Ufc fighters fight so refined. Thats so boring. Style vs style is so good.

[@ARG0T]

Oh Jesus Christ lol

[@extremepop324]

So fn true 😂 today is just MMA vs MMA, watching a entire ppv will get a little boring. Style vs style is so much more entertaining!

[@Richard_dicky_Johnson]

Goodridge in the mid 90's and early 2000's was a monster. Freakish KO power.

[@JGD185]

That elbow KO he did of that guy in UFC is still horrifying. You could seriously kill someone doing that.

[@stennilsen9584]

Agree. Also this fight should have been stopped a couple of times.

[@mikekohnholdt7670]

The Russian looked so bad Iam Not an expert so I Google him, he was a good fighter, but that was not his best performance so it seems

[@jesses5463]

@@mikekohnholdt7670 Oleg won the UFC 6 tournament. Here he caught Gary with some good shots early, but Gary was able to take them no problem. When Oleg got dropped the first time, most fighters would have been finished at that point. He showed great heart to continue but it was just a matter of time before Gary would catch him again.

[@divansurfer]

@@jesses5463 Gary seems have ate one Oleg before that fight , look at his condition Oleg is fearless if he took this fight

[@justcause1500]

I remember when Taktarov fought in the UFC and one of his cornermen was holding a sign that said "russian bear becomes american hero". As hilarious as it was adorable

[@oliverlennard]

The Americans thought he meant vodka 😂

[@davemeads859]

I remember he got angry af and was yelling "In Russia blood means f_ck all" after a doctor stoppage

[@auramigraine]

I have to say that Stephen Quadros and Bas Rutten are amazing commentators that really know how to break down the fights. I'm surprised that neither of them are still working today as commentators for Pro Wrestling or MMA.

[@sidfuel]

you are right. this mma reporter duo is so much fun and interesting. it's sorry for this short time. wish good day.

[@sidfuel]

bus rutten and steven "fight professor" quadros the best mma reporter duo in the hole world. thank you.

[@simplyphenomenal695]

That montage at 0:10 is amazing especially the song got in stuck in my head for hours after seeing this 😂

[@zzz7zzz9]

ah, the commentators in the old days. they likely figured nobody was watching, outside of japan. they said gary goodridge was the world arm wrestling champion. and that he had beaten 1000 competitors in one hour. amazing. he beat 16.66 opponents every minute, nonstop, for one hour. so 3.6 seconds per opponent, with no time to spare in between opponents. amazing feat.

[@brianmeen2158]

Oleg trying to box with Goodridge was a big Mistake 😂😂

[@pete6891]

i remember watching Pride live for the first time. It was so different, it was so hype!

[@user-jz5ks1rn1g]

懐かしすぎて泣ける😭 この頃に戻りたい

[@johndamenillusionist4342]

Brings back memories...best times of my life watching Pride events💯♥️

[@ayatoshi7085]

良い時代でしたよね

[@speedrob]

Bas Rutten is a damn legend, love that dude. That little story about having his couch on the other side of the arena in Japan 😂

[@ImpmanPDX]

Wow I subscribed to Fight Pass years ago so I could watch the legacy fights on my phone at work. Having them free on YT is way, way better.

[@Night-Jester]

Woah this is a cool upload. Pride had such high production values.

[@UnnReaL666]

almost died of epilepsy watching the intro but it was totally worth it.

[@wilhelmhesse1348]

Open weight classes lol..old school MMA was 100 times more dangerous than today's... which is why many didn't have long careers... warriors 💯 This was almost 30 years ago the style of commentary and expert fight analysis from Steven Kudrus and Bas Rutten is even now way better than alot of the commentary we see today, Bas a true combat legend in every sense of the word 💯..

[@vyrUS79]

I remember watching these fights and Pride in general live. Its amazing given that the best in the world fought for this organization. and watching it now, after all these years, to see that the skill level of today's fighters are light years ahead of these great vets. Really have to appreciate the evolution MMA has gone through.

[@HkFinn83]

A lot of the early pride fights are heavily ‘pro wrestling’ in influence. The best fighters of that time were pretty similar to then best of later years

[@jtaco4101]

This wasn't avaliable live outside of Japan. It was like pride 10 or the gp. Lol You can tell this is just commentary done over them watching a tape.

[@bubbachildsupport4535]

@@jtaco4101bro got caught lying 😂

[@nicolasrolke3538]

Crazy, not even the UFC has a VHS copy where the top of the screen isn't fucked.

[@MMARLZ]

Pride never die

[@35november]

That ref during the Renzo Shoji fight was putting in work. Good for him. During the third fight with the giant australian Nathan Jones and the sumo, Nathan has been in a number of films such as Troy and the awesomely choreographed Ong Bak.

[@stansmith3763]

It's marvelous this is on YT. The commentary team smashed it out the park.

[@blagosvirakolo]

W UFC upload! I have this on a Japanese tape.. KRS-PRIDE 1! also a poster, program, calendar too.. such an amazing event with some of the greatest fighters in martial arts history!

[@JOSETV1]

Nice! Have pics? Or lead on where to get some of that stuff,

[@Tom__2023]

I like these early era of mma...

[@loganstabb2278]

I wasn’t old enough to get to see pride when it was at its peak. I’m only 16 and I’m bummed ash I couldn’t be there to watch it. So thank you for this!

[@neonbelly9491]

you werent even alive when this started, gtfo

[@Kitajima2]

Oh it was amazing. For a period of time after Pride folded, basically every single UFC champion was a former Pride fighter.

[@KaiMax_23]

I can't tell you how exciting it was looking so forward to the next Pride event. Every event seemed to outdo the last in both quality of fights and pageantry.

[@銀河佐原砂漠]

一番格闘技幻想が活発な時代でした。配信感謝いたします。

[@droppinloot4960]

Pride FC is classic, this takes me back

[@ohjajohh]

This is great, please upload them all

[@Сильвестр-ю4ы]

Огромное спасибо автору канала...За эти прекрасный турнир Прайд !

Pride Never Die 👊💥🔥

[@hughjohnson8910]

Pride was awesome! Four major events/organizations that shaped modern mama are Vale Tudo, UFC, PRIDE and Pancrase.

[@bishop1283]

pride was so much better than what the ufc is now.

[@vinnyhaddad]

13:55 “Hopefully everything’s okay with Oleg, I guess we will find out later…but it’s good.” As Oleg’s being carried out on a stretcher 😂

[@VultureLivesAgain]

It's funny, because the commentary wasn't live at this point. It was recorded in post-production. So they already knew that Taktarov was okay.

[@ericmotta1]

I didn't know that I thought it was live

[@VultureLivesAgain]

@@ericmotta1 Yeah, the commentary for the first several events was recorded after the fact. Sometimes you can see Bas Rutten in the ring, like when he's in Mark Kerr's corner for some fights, and he's still talking on commentary at the same time 😄

[@ericmotta1]

@@VultureLivesAgain well, still great commentary lol but I feel cheated

[@johndavis3969]

So stoked UFC bought all this footage a long time ago.

[@stilgar2007]

Always love classic Bas Ruten commentary.

[@destructodisk9074]

UFC and Pride were both amazing back in the day, but there was a long period where the HW division in UFC was trash and Pride had everyone worth anything above 205. The Tim Sylvia Ricco Rodriguez era was painful.

[@blackpagan100]

Gotta love how honest the commentators are… “this isn’t a fight, it’s a dance contest “ 😆

[@brianmeen2158]

The commentating wasn’t live and was later added many years later.

[@viljamtheninja]

@@brianmeen2158 And you're saying this based on what, exactly?

[@jordantheriverman6143]

"The thief comes to steal, kill and destroy. I have come that they may have life and life abundantly."

[@blackpagan100]

@@jordantheriverman6143 and your point here is?

[@chiquirun1606]

Crazy memories, I actually got into pride before ufc. A old friend of mine was watching pride and I started watching it with him. Didn't get into the ufc till ufc 37.5

[@bucketfeet5567]

Same. It was the 2000 grand prix that got me in

[@カルロスゴーン-l6o]

日本が格闘技の世界の中心だった頃があるって凄いな。今の人に話しても信じてもらえなそう

[@crispedgopher]

Joe Rogan sounded different back then

[@derekjansen5053]

Yeah thanks for putting this up Amazing stuff!

[@rafrivera7883]

Somebody nathan jones' size throwing a spinning wheel kick that fast is high key scary😂😂😂

[@joeallan3706]

i used to have EVERY pride event on DVD... but i relapsed on H and sold them all for like 5$ each :( wish i still had them

[@ericmotta1]

Hope you overcome your vice, cuz that was quite a nice set of dvd's.

[@siegfriedo]

Oleg's chin was alread cracked by the time of Pride 1. Hence the quick KO. He used to be able to take a lot of punishment, time and cumulative damage catches up with everyone.

[@オラ破天荒]

PRIDEはマジにどの試合もヒヤヒヤ楽しかった…今の若者がリアルタイムで見れてなかったのが可哀想…なくらいオモロカッタ…

[@replicant2]

カシアス・クレイの試合はどれもヒヤヒヤ楽しかった。今の40代50代がリアルタイムで見れてなかったのが可哀想なくらいオモロカッタ・・・

[@mainaccount4560]

カシアスクレイ ムハマドアリ

[@もえ-x8r9t]

宮本武蔵の試合はどれもヒヤヒヤ楽しかった。現代人がリアルタイムで見れてなかったのが可哀想なくらいオモロカッタ・・・

[@suzukisato8348]

PRIDE1とかレベル低過ぎて全く面白くないんですけど、、、 高田なんてロープつかんでTD阻止した以外、なーーんにもしてないやん。 高田にだったら、マジでブレイキングダウンの人でも勝てるだろう。

[@qaz-fi1id]

Rickson claims to have hundreds of victories and zero defeats but would only fight a pro wrestler

[@fernandokanizawa]

Se o Dan Serven tivesse treinado boxe, teria feito muito mais história que já fez

[@ryanramel604]

Bas rutten’s commentary has me rolling

[@Joseph-lz5er]

Gary Goodridge said Pride 1 event was 90 percent fixed. Pride 2 was 70 percent, and by Pride 10, 10 percent was fixed. So Interesting to watch it again, knowing most of these fights were fixed, and you can see now how some of the fighters didn't even resist submission attempts.

[@FailedBard]

I can't even remember the channel it was on now, but I watched a video recently on the history of match fixing in early Japanese MMA and saw that clip there, so watched this trying to figure out which of the fights were legit. That head kick on the ground couldn't have been pre-planned, but most everything else, in viewing with that historical hindsight, was pretty suspect.

[@VultureLivesAgain]

Goodridge was massively exaggerating. He's also suffering from dementia (seriously). I wouldn't take his word as gospel. There were a few fixed fights, but it's nowhere near what he claimed.

[@Laneganswake]

Oh, like Cyril Gane vs Jon Jones?

[@PAKA62]

Someone forgot to tell Taktarov his fight was rigged

[@Kverkele]

How they fixed some of the fights was telling losing opponent wrong opponent for 2-3month training camp and last minute tell who they fighting. Winner knew all that time who their real opponent was.

[@wade6523]

Best part is Bas' commentary speculation. The part where they keep their heads up for a better view is classic.

[@pulsarlights2825]

PrideFC 2003-2007 was the best MMA I ever watched

[@savagevids7714]

Not even though a warning for epileptic people 😆😆 intro wild asf hell yeah

[@akitaneko]

おおおおお！！！ アップありがとうございます！

[@Badassery666]

iie douitashimashite !

[@mobeck]

I feel like Oleg never fought anyone that didn't significantly outweigh him

[@mariafejamandron3088]

You clearly never saw Oleg vs Tank Abbott

[@MisterJMills_978]

I thought Oleg Was Dead! Jeeesh they carted him out like it was the damn kumate! That boy was lifeless for well over two minutes. He bounced back and playing some good movies! Hes a dog! Gary Goodrich looking crazy. Shoji's standup style. Art of the dead tree! What a raw one dimension martial arts tournament. IDK if being in Japan played a role in the fighters tactics.? This is a legendary event tho

[@LaResistenciaEDC]

I miss the Pride and those days..

[@tapuout101]

I dont know why, but I like rewatching the Pride events. I dont care to rewatch UFC events.

[@FunnyClipsToEnlightenUrDay]

OMG Rickson Gracie vs Nobuhiko Takada. Real ones know the backstory behind this fight. And Rickson beating Yoji Anjo in his dogo omg brings back so much memories.

[@ロベルトリベリーノカルロス]

PRIDE1見れるとは良い時代や

[@cbfhesxjebakdh]

Back when MMA was actually Martial Arts vs Martial Arts. Fighters relied on their Martial Arts background. Grapplers didn’t know how to strike, strikers didn’t know how to grapple 😂

[@Evan-hq5dt]

Thank you

[@やまぐちえいじ-b1q]

魂の削りあいのような試合！ UFCやPRIDE創世期のほうが競技化　ビジネス化された現在より面白かった！ スト2みたいに何が出てくるかわからないかんじもよかったなあ

[@MrWolfchamp-xi3cu]

Upload the Gomi Kawajiri fight or whatever event it took place

[@steekmoerjr9600]

thanks Dana for modern day MMA...these old MMA day were funny

[@こじこじ-y9d]

今の選手みたいに何も背負わずにエキシビションしたりとか、無様な失神KOしといて逃げっぱなしとか許されない時代だったから。マッチングも雑な感じで逆に良かった。

[@__MMA_Sports______-zj9zl]

Come on guys, release another full Pride Event every month or every week. We love these. But we're not buying fight pass or whatever for them. You know we could all download them so you might as well post them here and get some ad money

[@bobsappsjockstrap]

you’re poor

[@__MMA_Sports______-zj9zl]

@@bobsappsjockstrap you're very handsome

[@bobsappsjockstrap]

@@__MMA_Sports______-zj9zl tanks daddy

[@Charlimarteli]

No

[@SilencedRage]

This game has evolved so fast in the time it's caught on.

[@thistle_boy]

Akira grabbed the rope almost as much as Conor grabs the fence.

[@alanfinch8763]

Great to see in decent quality

[@sleepleZZZV3]

Thanks to every yakuza that was part of this incredible invention!!!

[@viljamtheninja]

Rickson was terrifying, but he looked so damn goofy with his deadpan stare and robot slide.

[@The_R-n-I_Guy]

That thing that grew out of that guy's head when he was kicked...wow

[@marco10832]

My coach spent time with a black belt who said most of the Japanese fighters went in thinking they were wrestling a work. At no point did they imagine body lock, trip, flail and death.

[@SirDerp909]

Why am I not surprised the King Of Pancrase, Bas Ruten, is commenting?

[@test-201]

back when pride didnt mean an american gay ideology

[@CorpusFisty]

More please!!

[@SigmA_ARO]

Old school MMA was really the best !

[@TheSoonToBePurgedJackMeHoff55]

The gracies always made special rules bouts in Japan. It was annoying

[@readytoworkboulder]

Sakuraba ended their legacy in Pride, it was beautiful

[@Kriks-q1x]

Лучшего бойца и вообще первого бойца за всю историю Мира Бессмертного Олега чуть не убил черный хулиган!

[@metalgearsolidsnake6978]

Wow the japanese refeeres are actually fair, they made a draw between Akira Shoji vs Renzo Gracie--- i was 100 % they would give it to the japanese guy!

[@metalgearsolidsnake6978]

the good old days

[@Jonathasjosec]

thanks for publish

[@bryanmccarthy6493]

The first fight was fixed according to John Dixon.

[@fnfn9229]

Does anyone else think the 1st fight was maybe fixed?

[@stephencrowley1983]

Murakami Kazunari vs John Dixon, looked like a dive honestly

[@VultureLivesAgain]

The finish looked fake. Kazunari was quite obviously setting up an armbar, but Dixon made absolutely no attempt to resist it. And the punches thrown to Dixon's body right before the armbar... those looked like pro wrestling punches.

[@gratefuldrifter6588]

garys fight,and the last one gracie arm bar,next PRIDE FC 2, thats later though 7.15 am in new zealand.time to rest my soul.RESPECT TO ALL

[@kevincamacho3364]

Yes, definitely the best mma organization ever👏🏼🙌🏼🥊

[@gratefuldrifter6588]

LOVE GARY MAN,REST EASY BROTHER.HE WAS A BAD BAD MAN,RESPECT,I REALLY MISS HIS FIGHTS.

[@MoviesInOneMinute23]

That's why I started liking one more than ufc, UFC is losing charm

[@bolsbolbol368]

That restart in the Rickson Gracie fight didn't make any sense. So if Takada grabbed the rope in the corner like that anytime they would have restarted it over and over? Was that a ref mistake or a rule at the time?

[@Pigeon-envelope]

I believe it was a rule

[@scaccu]

@@Pigeon-envelope correct.

[@oneidawolf776]

Imagine challenging prime Rickson Gracie to a fight.

[@jopeify]

I've never seen Pride 1. this is like real life Street Fighter

[@stanleythompson3848]

EXACTLY, back in the day was so damn cool!

[@斉藤浩一-z2w]

高田得意の高速タップ。絶対我慢しないので怪我もしません。

[@私は地球人だ-m9o]

格闘技やればわかりますね

[@Krezo200]

Thanks!!!