The year 2005 is the 9th year in the history of the
Pride Fighting Championships
PRIDE Fighting Championships (Pride or Pride FC, founded as KRS-Pride) was a Japanese mixed martial arts promotion company. Its inaugural event was held at the Tokyo Dome on October 11, 1997. Pride held more than sixty mixed martial arts even ...
, a
mixed martial arts
Mixed martial arts (MMA), sometimes referred to as cage fighting, no holds barred (NHB), and ultimate fighting, and originally referred to as Vale Tudo is a full-contact combat sport based on striking, grappling and ground fighting, inc ...
promotion based in Japan. 2005 had 10 events beginning with, ''Pride 29 - Fists of Fire''.
Title fights
Debut Pride FC fighters
The following fighters fought their first Pride FC fight in 2005:
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Alexandru Lungu
* Aliev Makhmud
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Andrei Semenov
* Daisuke Sugie
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Daniel Acacio
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David Abbott
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Denis Kang
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Dong Sik Yoon
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Fabrício Werdum
Fabrício Werdum (; born 30 July 1977) is a Brazilian mixed martial artist and former UFC Heavyweight Champion who competes in the Heavyweight division. He is also a 4-time Brazilian jiu-jitsu world champion, a two-time Abu Dhabi Combat Club Wor ...
* Ibragim Magomedov
* In Seok Kim
* Jean Silva
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Joachim Hansen
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Josh Thomson
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Jutaro Nakao
* Ken Kaneko
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Luiz Azeredo
* Masanori Suda
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Michihiro Omigawa
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Milton Vieira
Milton Vieira (born October 10, 1978) is a Brazilian mixed martial artist currently competing as a Featherweight. Vieira is widely credited as the inventor of the anaconda choke. Vieira is a Brazilian jiu-jitsu black belt under Murilo Bustamante ...
* Murad Chunkaiev
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Naoyuki Kotani
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Pawel Nastula
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Pedro Rizzo
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Phil Baroni
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Roman Zentsov
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Ryuichi Murata
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Tatsuya Kawajiri
* Tomomi Iwama
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Tsuyoshi Kosaka
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Wagner da Conceicao Martins
Wágner da Conceição Martins (born May 19, 1978), better known as Zuluzinho (), is a Brazilian vale tudo fighter and mixed martial artist. He is the son of Vale Tudo legend Casemiro Nascimento Martins ("Rei Zulu"). Wagner was raised by his gra ...
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Yoshiro Maeda
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Yves Edwards
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Aaron Riley
Aaron Matthew Riley (born December 9, 1980) is a retired American mixed martial artist who most recently competed in the Lightweight division of the Ultimate Fighting Championship. A professional competitor from 1997 to 2013, he has also formerly ...
Events list
Pride 29: Fists of Fire
Pride 29: Fists of Fire was an event held on February 20, 2005 at
Osaka-jo Hall in
Osaka
is a designated city in the Kansai region of Honshu in Japan. It is the capital of and most populous city in Osaka Prefecture, and the third most populous city in Japan, following Special wards of Tokyo and Yokohama. With a population of 2. ...
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Japan
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Results
Pride FC: Bushido 6
Pride FC: Bushido 6 was an event held on April 3, 2005 at
Osaka-jo Hall in
Osaka
is a designated city in the Kansai region of Honshu in Japan. It is the capital of and most populous city in Osaka Prefecture, and the third most populous city in Japan, following Special wards of Tokyo and Yokohama. With a population of 2. ...
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Japan
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Results
Pride FC: Total Elimination 2005
Pride FC: Total Elimination 2005 was an event held on April 23, 2005 at
Osaka-jo Hall in
Osaka
is a designated city in the Kansai region of Honshu in Japan. It is the capital of and most populous city in Osaka Prefecture, and the third most populous city in Japan, following Special wards of Tokyo and Yokohama. With a population of 2. ...
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Japan
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Results
Pride GP 2005 Middleweight Bracket
Pride FC: Bushido 7
Pride FC: Bushido 7 was an event held on May 22, 2005 at
Osaka-jo Hall in
Osaka
is a designated city in the Kansai region of Honshu in Japan. It is the capital of and most populous city in Osaka Prefecture, and the third most populous city in Japan, following Special wards of Tokyo and Yokohama. With a population of 2. ...
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Japan
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Results
Pride FC: Critical Countdown 2005
Pride FC: Critical Countdown 2005 was an event held on June 26, 2005 at
Osaka-jo Hall in
Osaka
is a designated city in the Kansai region of Honshu in Japan. It is the capital of and most populous city in Osaka Prefecture, and the third most populous city in Japan, following Special wards of Tokyo and Yokohama. With a population of 2. ...
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Japan
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Results
Pride GP 2005 Middleweight Bracket
Pride FC: Bushido 8
Pride FC: Bushido 8 was an event held on July 17, 2005 at
Osaka-jo Hall in
Osaka
is a designated city in the Kansai region of Honshu in Japan. It is the capital of and most populous city in Osaka Prefecture, and the third most populous city in Japan, following Special wards of Tokyo and Yokohama. With a population of 2. ...
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Japan
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Results
Pride FC: Final Conflict 2005
Pride FC: Final Conflict 2005 was an event held on August 28, 2005 at
Osaka-jo Hall in
Osaka
is a designated city in the Kansai region of Honshu in Japan. It is the capital of and most populous city in Osaka Prefecture, and the third most populous city in Japan, following Special wards of Tokyo and Yokohama. With a population of 2. ...
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Japan
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Results
Pride GP 2005 Middleweight Bracket
Pride FC: Bushido 9
Pride FC: Bushido 9 was an event held on September 25, 2005 at
Ariake Coliseum in
Tokyo
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Japan
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Results
Welterweight Tournament Bracket
Lightweight Tournament Bracket
Pride 30: Fully Loaded
Pride 30: Fully Loaded was an event held on October 23, 2005 at
Saitama Super Arena in
Saitama,
Japan
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Results
Pride FC: Shockwave 2005
Pride FC: Shockwave 2005
was an event held on December 31, 2005 at
Saitama Super Arena in
Saitama, Japan. The event included the finals of the Pride Welterweight and Lightwent tournaments that began at
Pride: Bushido 9, a rematch between
Wanderlei Silva and
Ricardo Arona for the
Pride Middleweight Championship, and a main event between Olympic judokas
Naoya Ogawa
(born 31 March 1968) is a Japanese Olympic and world champion judoka, retired professional wrestler, and mixed martial artist. He won a total of seven medals at the All-Japan Judo Championships (second only behind Yasuhiro Yamashita), and set a r ...
and
Hidehiko Yoshida
is a Japanese gold-medalist judoka and retired mixed martial artist. He is a longtime veteran of Japan's PRIDE Fighting Championships, competing in the Middleweight (93kg) and Heavyweight divisions. He won gold at the 1992 Summer ...
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Results
Welterweight Tournament Bracket
Lightweight Tournament Bracket
See also
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Pride Fighting Championships
PRIDE Fighting Championships (Pride or Pride FC, founded as KRS-Pride) was a Japanese mixed martial arts promotion company. Its inaugural event was held at the Tokyo Dome on October 11, 1997. Pride held more than sixty mixed martial arts even ...
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List of Pride Fighting Championships champions
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List of Pride Fighting events
Below is a list of mixed martial arts events scheduled and held by Pride Fighting Championships.
Events
Event locations
Seven cities in two countries have hosted a total of 68 events:
* Japan (66)
: Saitama, Saitama, Saitama – 25
: Tokyo ...
References
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Pride Fighting Championships events
2005 in mixed martial arts