ufc and pride, what are the exact differences?

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UFC is a regional orginization (N America) that uses a cage allows elbows, but not kicks and knees to a downed opponent. UFC fights are 3 five minute rounds with championship fights being 5 rounds. Many of the current Pride fighters were once in the UFC. The UFC has gone away from international fighters in favor of more homegrown talent. I assume this is to gain American fans. Pride is based out of Japan but boasts a stable of international of fighters which is much deeper a fighter pool than UFC. It does not allow elbows but does allow kicks(stomps, soccer kicks, knees) to a fighter on the ground. Pride fights usually have a 10 min round followed by two 5 min rounds.(I might be incorrect on the number and length of the rounds following round 1.) The two org also use a slightly different judging criteria. Pride also has a card process similar to point deductions in boxing to keep fighters from stalling. B/C of its depth Pride typically puts on better cards. It simply has more "name" fighters to make intriguing matchups. You will see advocates of each org bashing the other all the time. UFC has a lot of good but raw fighters and with Prides arrival in the US, White will have to start paying his fighters better, and I anticipate it will bring the overall level of fighters up in the UFC. The reality is that although Pride has a deeper talent pool, there are several fighters from the UFC that would challenge any Pride champion(other than Fedor). Pride boasts and outstanding HW and LHW division with the likes of Fedor, Crocop, Nogs, Barnett, Hearing, Silva, Arona, and Rua. The UFC is pretty week at HW and other than Chuck there is no one proven at LHW only prospects and Ortiz. The UFC makes its money at the MW/WW/LW with several top fighters. The WW div holds probably the top three WW's in the world in Hughes/Penn/GSP. In the end I enjoy watching both org. I think most objective people will agree that both org are good for MMA and attempt to make the best fights in their respective stable.

to hughes, penn, gsp, add parysian, kos and sanchez. they're not there yet, but will be soon, imo. that's a sick division.

I think Koscheck is the future of the div...His striking has improved alot and I think he is pretty much on par with Hughes as far as wrestling. I forgot about Karo and I'm just not completely sold on Diego yet.

I defo wanna see Diego and Koz square off. Or Karo and Koz.

Karo's giless judo is amazing.

Kos and Diego's last fight was a snoozefest. Kos is good, but he's just a lesser version of Diego. Granted, I think Kos has developed a lot more than Diego since TUF, but I'd still give it to Diego.

And UFC DEFINATELY has the best WW division, mainly because Pride doesn't have one ;)

Also, I'm pretty sure Pride has one 10 minute round then one 5 minute, with a 5 minute tie breaker if need be.

Also, Pride judges based on who won the fight, not who won the most rounds. I think this is a MUCH better way of judging. If Fighter A lays on Fighter B for two rounds to win them, but then Fighter B cuts up Fighter A and breaks his face and bruises the hell out of him and takes out his legs and grounds and pounds him in the third round, Fighter A would win in UFC while Fighter B would win in Pride.

Also, be aware that Pride can't use their normal rules when the show is held in America, as the fights are sanctioned by whichever Athletic Commision runs the state the event is held in. So in the American shows, there are no kicks to downed opponents and elbows are allowed (if Pride chooses to allow, they may still not allow it just because the they don't like them).

And another major difference is the whole Cage vs Ring thing...it may not seem like much, but the cage can become like a third guy stepping in the fight sometimes, to help better pin a downed or standing opponent.

I personally like the cage

thanks alot cc to heavy d and vanchilds