Pride Fighting Championships

There's one other wrinkle to this that I think is at least worth mentioning, and it's something that Bergeron alleged.

In June 2007, Zufa borrowed $325 million in order to purchase Pride FC.

One aspect of that loan agreement apparently required a certain amount of sponsorship money from an upstanding sponsor in order for the loan to be approved.

So the allegation is that Zufa propped up Zions in part so they could get the loan even though they knew that the company was actually a hot mess.

I'm not a lawyer.

So in this alleged scenario, you can see how massively important Zions would have been to Zufa.

Not acquiring Pride FC could have a butterfly effect that I can't even wrap my head around.

But that is pretty much the long and short of it.

It's the longest MMA fight in history.

We'll probably never have one like that again because it was all it was in Pride FC, but all the pride was on the line.

Sakuraba had submitted a couple of the Gracie family.

Hoyce Gracie was the guy who won the original UFCs.

And the match-ups are incredible, this one.

So the Blockbuster match-up, MMA heavyweight legend, UFC and Pride Fighters, you mentioned that.

So are the Hulk Pilelli taking on AFL great West Coast Eagles champion Nick Natanui.

So the Hulk versus Nick Nat.

Without you, we probably would quit, honestly.

Um, today we are going to be going back to the MMA roots that we kind of started with when it was just me and Marsh, and we are gonna be covering Pride 32, which we just Googled, and it turns out the entirety of this, of the entire card is only 22 minutes and 14 seconds.

Yeah.

So guys, even though we can't stream it, stay tuned though, 'cause Marsh is trying to figure that out on his end.

Uh, that was our bad.

That's okay.

Um, without further ado, guys, we're gonna boot up this Pride 32, uh, can, uh ...

Where's the ca- Oh, the case is over there.

Now, we have also announced the corporate boxing event for 2026, which will return to Perth on November 21 at the Kingsman, the corner of Governors Avenue.

It's an event led by former UFC and Pride fighter, Sower the Hulk Pilelli, along with Nydia Rodriguez and Peter Boyd.

We've already made a couple of Massive bouts.

We've already made some announcements there in regards to some fights.

Uh, get rid of the testing pool, I'll give you that.

Uh, but Pride and especially the UFC days when Fedor was coming up, everyone was on the juice.

But, um, didn't fight in the UFC.

God, Pride had tough competition.

He's fighting juiced Gills competition, man.

Fedor was the fucking man.

Callum welcome to the party.

Crack Stream: "They're trying to cancel Shane Gillis now." Ah, you can't.

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they seem very Pride centric, very Pride heavy.

Yeah.

It was everything is better than...

Yeah.

Good, great friend of mine.

Um, the other thing that happened is there was an argument with Sherdog and Dana where Dana said, "You don't give us a fair shake." And there was an arg- and, and, uh, Sherdog would sell DVDs, U- UFC DVDs, quit doing that and sold Pride instead for a better deal.

O- o- okay.

You can head to Megatix to get your tickets today.

Of course, Soa, a former UFC and Pride fighter.

We've already announced some massive bouts for this one.

I believe you have another one for us today as well.

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Pride Fighting, and I would just grab all...

And they were, I think they were $2 each.

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