There's one thing I don't get about the differences in Pride and UFC rules. In UFC, you can't kick or knee a downed opponent to the head, but you can in Pride. In Pride you can't strike with elbows to the head, but you can in UFC. I'm sure it has something to do with the differences in the rules & regulations for where the event is held, but it seems to me that knees, kicks and head stomps are more dangerous than an elbow to the head.

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There's one thing I don't get about the differences in Pride and UFC rules. In UFC, you can't kick or knee a downed opponent to the head, but you can in Pride. In Pride you can't strike with elbows to the head, but you can in UFC. I'm sure it has something to do with the differences in the rules & regulations for where the event is held, but it seems to me that knees, kicks and head stomps are more dangerous than an elbow to the head.

The elbow ban in Pride FC was, as I remember it, more of an issue with fighters trying to win by trying to open up a huge, uncloseable but non-damaging cut, making for boring ends to fights and a pretty shitty way of winning. I'm undecided as to kneeing, kicking, and stomping a downed opponent - I know I've appreciated having the rules swing in my favor, but I can remember a few times that I would have destroyed my opponent if I could have kneed to the head (particularly with north-south ownage). Safety first, obviously, but it does make MMA feel a bit more...sport-like, just like the "no punching to the back of the head" rule.

It's a moot point, though, seeing as how Pride FC is dysfunctional under Zuffa control.

Anyhow, this video is a dupe of this sift. Tymbrwulf, I suggest you use this video's embed code to fix the other sift, and discard this one.

Yeah I saw that one, but I wasn't sure if it was the same video because it was dead. How do I go about fixing the other sift then? I'm still new.

Go to the Youtube page of the video, and copy the embed code. Go to the link I provided above, then click the link just under the title but above the video that says "fix video embed code". Paste the embed code, click "save changes", and you're good to go.

mirko crocop filipovic really has a devastatingly fast and powerful high kicks, his left leg is a WMD in itself. i'm a little disapointed he didn't start so well in the octagon, coming from pride... but all of these guys are awfuly good fighters, any one of them can on a given day knock the daylights out of any other fighter. and that's part of the universal appeal of MMA, i guess

Man I loved PRIDE!. I don't like the way octagon is designed. Looks too cramped in there or something, and the rules are different.

There were some accusations of PRIDE fighters taking stimulants before fights. Example being Wanderlei Silva.

BTW, how can I download their 'theme' music, including individual fighter's custom ones?

p.s. New fight coming up between Some Korean dude vs Emilianenko Fedor. It's gonna be one sided match I would assume.

This is a dupe, but Tymburwulf can't fix it. I'm going to make the fix and *discard this one.

Discarding this post - discard requested by member rembar.