Pride Grand Prix 2000 Finals

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Pride Grand Prix 2000 Finals
Information
PromotionPride Fighting Championships
DateMay 1, 2000
VenueTokyo Dome
CityTokyo
Attendance38,429[1]
Event chronology
Pride Grand Prix 2000 Opening Round Pride Grand Prix 2000 Finals Pride 9

The Pride Grand Prix 2000 Finals was a mixed martial arts event held by the Pride Fighting Championships. It took place at the Tokyo Dome in Tokyo, Japan on May 1, 2000. The event concluded the Pride open-weight tournament of 2000. It also featured a bout between Royce Gracie and Kazushi Sakuraba that won the 2000 Wrestling Observer Newsletter Fight of the Year Award.


Results

Openweight final
Weight class Method Round Time Notes
Openweight Mark Coleman def. Igor Vovchanchyn Submission (knees) 2 3:09 [a]
Superfight
Superfight Ken Shamrock def. Alexander Otsuka KO (punches) 1 9:43 [b]
Openweight Semi-finals
Openweight Igor Vovchanchyn def. Kazushi Sakuraba TKO (corner stoppage) 1 15:00
Openweight Mark Coleman def. Kazuyuki Fujita TKO (corner stoppage) 1 0:02 [c]
Openweight Quarter-finals
Openweight Igor Vovchanchyn def. Gary Goodridge TKO (punches) 1 10:14
Openweight Kazushi Sakuraba def. Royce Gracie TKO (corner stoppage) 6 15:00 [d]
Openweight Mark Coleman def. Akira Shoji Unanimous decision 1 15:00
Openweight Kazuyuki Fujita def. Mark Kerr Unanimous decision 1 15:00
Other
Guy Mezger def. Masaaki Satake Unanimous decision 2 10:00
  1. ^ Coleman won the Pride Grand Prix 2000 tournament and the $200,000 grand prize.
  2. ^ Pride Grand Prix 2000 Superfight Finals.
  3. ^ Fujita's corner threw in the towel immediately due to injuries suffered in his quarterfinal bout against Mark Kerr.
  4. ^ The rules were modified to allow unlimited rounds. After 90 minutes of fighting, Gracie could not continue due to damage suffered to his legs.

Pride 2000 Grand Prix Bracket

 
Opening RoundQuarter-finalsSemi-finalsFinal
 
              
 
 
 
 
Royce GracieDEC
 
 
 
Nobuhiko Takada
 
Royce Gracie90:00
 
 
 
Kazushi SakurabaTKO
 
Kazushi SakurabaTKO
 
 
 
Guy Mezger15:00
 
Kazushi Sakuraba15:00
 
 
 
Igor VovchanchynTKO
 
Igor VovchanchynDEC
 
 
 
Alexander Otsuka
 
Igor VovchanchynTKO
 
 
 
Gary Goodridge10:14
 
Gary GoodridgeSUB
 
 
 
 Osamu Kawahara0:51
 
Igor Vovchanchyn3:09
 
 
 
Mark ColemanSUB
 
Mark ColemanSUB
 
 
 
Masaaki Satake1:14
 
Mark ColemanDEC
 
 
 
Akira Shoji
 
Akira ShojiDEC
 
 
 
 Ebenezer Fontes Braga
 
 Mark ColemanTKO
 
 
 
Kazuyuki Fujita0:02
 
Mark KerrDEC
 
 
 
 Enson Inoue
 
Mark Kerr
 
 
 
Kazuyuki FujitaDEC
 
Kazuyuki FujitaSUB
 
 
Hans Nijman2:48
 


See also

References

  1. ^ PRIDE and Glory

External links

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