Pride Fighting Championships: Story, Cast and Series Facts

Story and premise

Pride Fighting Championships was a Japanese based MMA promotion that ran from 1997 to 2007. Pride ran over 60 events including a co-production with K-1 boasting the largest ever live MMA attendance record in 2002. Pride differed from American MMA, using a five roped ring as opposed to a cage, a three round fifteen minute fight format, and a unique rule set allowing for a greater variety of strikes, stomps and spikes.

Series details

• Title: Pride Fighting Championships
• Format: Sports
• Language: Japanese
• Premiere date: 1997-10-11
• Final broadcast date listed: 2002-06-23
• Status in TVmaze: Ended
• Network listed by TVmaze: Pay-Per-View
• Web channel listed by TVmaze: UFC Fight Pass
• Network country: United States
• TVMaze ID: 27913

Seasons in the TVmaze catalogue

• Season 1: premiered 1997-10-11; final listed air date 1997-10-11.
• Season 11: premiered 2000-07-04; final listed air date 2000-07-04.
• Season 24: premiered 2002-06-23; final listed air date 2002-06-23.

Source and licence

Adapted from Pride Fighting Championships on TVmaze. The synopsis is reproduced as plain text; catalogue facts, cast and season records are selected and reformatted. This adapted text is available under CC BY-SA 4.0, following the TVmaze API licence. Network and web-channel credits identify the service listed in this source; they do not establish current streaming availability.