Pride Fighting Championships was initially conceived of in 1997, to match popular Japanese pro-wrestler Nobuhiko Takada with Rickson Gracie, the purported champion of the Gracie family of Brazilian jiu-jitsu practitioners. The precursors of Pride were the Japanese mixed martial arts competitions and shoot style pro wrestling promotions Shooto (founded in 1985), UWF International (founded in 1991), Pancrase (founded in 1993), and Kingdom (founded in 1997). History The Origins Until The Glory Days
2.10 Differences from the Unified Rules of Mixed Martial Arts. 2.8 Matches between fighters of different weight classes. In 2015, Pride's co-founder and former president Nobuyuki Sakakibara established Rizin Fighting Federation in Japan with the same philosophy and ambition as for the defunct Pride organization. That new organization, founded in February 2008, was named Dream. As a result, many of the Pride staff left to form a new organization alongside K-1 parent company Fighting and Entertainment Group. However, such an arrangement did not materialize, and in October 2007, Pride Worldwide's Japanese staff was laid off, marking the end of the organization as an active fight promoter. While remaining as legally separate entities with separate managements, the two promotions were set to cooperate in a manner akin to the AFL-NFL merger. In March 2007, Dream Stage Entertainment (DSE) sold Pride to Lorenzo Fertitta and Frank Fertitta III, co-owners of Zuffa, which, at the time, owned the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC). For ten years PRIDE was one of the most popular MMA organizations in the world. Pride held 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 held more than sixty mixed martial arts events, broadcast to about 40 countries worldwide. Its inaugural event was held at the Tokyo Dome on October 11, 1997. 
Pride Fighting Championships ( Pride or Pride FC, founded as KRS-Pride) was a Japanese mixed martial arts promotion company.
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