Pride Grand Prix 2000 Opening Round
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| Pride Grand Prix 2000 Opening Round | ||||
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| Promotion | Pride Fighting Championships | |||
| Date | January 30, 2000 | |||
| Venue | Tokyo Dome | |||
| City | Tokyo | |||
| Attendance | 48,316[1] | |||
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The Pride Grand Prix 2000 Opening Round was a mixed martial arts event held by the Pride Fighting Championships. It took place at the Tokyo Dome in Tokyo, Japan on January 30, 2000. The event began the Pride Openweight tournament of 2000.
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[edit] Results
- Alternate Bout:
Bob Schrijber vs 
Wanderlei Silva
- Silva defeated Schrijber via submission (rear-naked choke) at 2:42 of round 1.
[edit] First Round
Gary Goodridge vs. 
Osamu Kawahara
- Goodridge defeated Tachihikari via submission (forearm choke) at 0:51 of round 1.
- Kawahara fought under the name Tachihikari.
- Shoji defeated Braga via unanimous decision.
- Fujita defeated Nijman via submission (scarf hold) at 2:48 of round 1.
- Sakuraba defeated Mezger via TKO (retirement) at 15:00 of round 1. Mezger forfeited the fight by leaving the ring after the bout was declared a draw and sent to an overtime round.
- Coleman defeated Satake via submission (neck crank) at 1:14 of round 1.
- Vovchanchyn defeated Otsuka via unanimous decision.
- Enson Inoue vs.
Mark Kerr
- Kerr defeated Inoue via unanimous decision.
- Gracie defeated Takada via unanimous decision.
[edit] Pride 2000 Grand Prix Bracket
| Opening Round January 30, 2000 |
Quarter-finals May 1, 2000 |
Semi-finals May 1, 2000 |
Final May 1, 2000 |
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 Royce Gracie |
DEC | |||||||||||||
 Nobuhiko Takada |
15:00 | |||||||||||||
| Royce Gracie |
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| Kazushi Sakuraba |
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| Kazushi Sakuraba |
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 Guy Mezger |
15:00 | |||||||||||||
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 Igor Vovchanchyn |
DEC | |||||||||||||
| Alexander Otsuka |
15:00 | |||||||||||||
| Igor Vovchanchyn |
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 Gary Goodridge |
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| Gary Goodridge |
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| Osamu Kawahara |
0:51 | |||||||||||||
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| Mark Coleman |
SUB | |||||||||||||
| Masaaki Satake |
1:14 | |||||||||||||
| Mark Coleman |
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| Akira Shoji |
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| Akira Shoji |
DEC | |||||||||||||
| Ebenezer Fontes Braga |
15:00 | |||||||||||||
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| Mark Kerr |
DEC | |||||||||||||
| Enson Inoue |
15:00 | |||||||||||||
| Mark Kerr |
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| Kazuyuki Fujita |
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| Kazuyuki Fujita |
SUB | |||||||||||||
 Hans Nijman |
2:48 | |||||||||||||
[edit] References
[edit] See also
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