Pride’s financials were terrible. If it wasn’t bought by Zuffa, it either would have been bought by somebody else or it would have just gone belly up.

But let’s say Pride had a whole bunch of capital and could afford to buy the UFC, Zuffa would never sell. Pride couldn’t hack it–they were forced to sell.

UFC made pride tap…

If Coca Cola could buy Pespi & put them out of busines they would, UFC did it to Pride. Thats business.

I consider myself being a huge Pride FC lover, I’m sad that it’s gone but at the end of the day business is business. I’m a Dana hater, and usually I’m not a hater of anyone except him with the only reason of him taking down Pride, but you have to swallow your pride sometimes and recognize that what he did was huge for the UFC. He’s just being smart. Microsoft didn’t get to where it is today if they hadn’t got rid of their competitors (I hate Microsoft too!) and this is what Dana did, got rid of his competitor. So can we really blame the guy? Just like he said, he got more fighters (LHW didn’t used to be stacked as it is today), got a huge MMA video library, got rid of their competitor, got three new champions and most of all, got a new audience tuning in to the UFC (most people that used to watch only Pride outside of japan are now buying UFC PPVs, I’m living proof of that). Again, business is nasty sometimes, so I hate you Dana, but good job getting to where you are

PS: don’t worry ppl, the UFC will have new competitors sooner than later, it’s just a matter of time so we can see where these new organizations stand after a year or two.

A. Silva fought a whopping 5 times in Pride, and was 3-2. He made his name fighting all over the place before coming to the UFC. That’s only 2 more fights in Pride than Chuck. Anderson is not a “Pride guy”.

The UFC didn’t get Rampage in the Pride buyout, they bought the WFA to get him. He had already left Pride.

Of those 3 only Nog signed after the buyout.

The UFC doesn’t have Ninja Rua, they do have Shogun though.

Pride died because Zuffa couln’t figure out how to run the business in Japan. However the previous owners obviously didn’t do such a bang up job themselves. So I agree, he’s not a douche…in this instance.

debating weather a. silva and rampage were pride fighters or not is such an old debate that will get no where and I’m sure w