Quote Originally Posted by El Gamo
Quote Originally Posted by iceman
dude, Pride so ruled, i remember getting that on ppv and just sitting jaw dropped as fight after fight came and went...they had the most action and the best fans....plus the money was good for the fighters....
You are so right man. I became an MMA fan only because I saw a PRIDE event,can't remember which one because I've purchased most of them!! The action,the fans,the entracnes,the ring,the stomps,that dam crazy announcer,the yelow card idea,and most importantly the fights and fighters made it an organisation which will never be bettered in MMA history,not in my lifetime anyway and it will certainly never be forgotten.

I just think the UFC could be doing so much more with the fighters and fights tha they are. Their cards,production etc is just not good enough imo. I want to become a UFC fan,afterall,I am first and foremost an MMA fan,but with their lukewarm events and odd good fight card here and there,it's hard to become a full fledged fan.
Whilst I agree completely about the Pride events being spectacular, with the crazy voice woman and the typical techno-anime inspired multi coloured ring entrances I wouldn't want to see the UFC attempt to copy that.

Pride worked because it was the natural Japanese culture and that's how they do things over there. America has its own culture just like the UK has theirs. The UFC shows are great in my opinion, I love the music introduction with the gladiator getting fitted up for combat, I like the ring girls etc. Let them stick to what they do, and remember Pride as the best of what the Japanese did.

It would be a travesty if the US tried to copy Pride and artificially force a Japanese cultural style for an American audience.

The cards are good, instead of stacking them I would like to see more of them. Instead of one or if we are lucky two events a month why not have an event every single week, with two of them being on free television to pick up a larger audience?

The fighters would get more fights and we'd see some more paced development of a fighters career rather than having to go from super fight to superfight.

Dan Henderson being a great case in point. First fight was against Rampage Jackson, he lost now he goes straight to another title fight against Anderson Silva. Although I can't wait to see that fight its come about far too quickly. If he loses he's 0-2 and the American public will have lost interest in him without ever seeing him do his thing in the ring. Let's see him beat up on somebody first so we can see how good he is.

If he wins Silva loses his title before a rivalry was even built up. I much prefer the slow pace of boxing where a contender will prove his worth over months or even years before finally getting the big showdown.

In the UFC the rivalries last about a week and a half