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'''PRIDE Fighting Championships''' ('''Pride''' or '''Pride FC''', founded as '''KRS-Pride''') was a Japanese [[mixed martial arts]] [[promoter (entertainment)|promotion company]]. It was run by Kevin “The Monster” Randleman, ever since his insane knockout on cro crop. Kevin Randleman had an unmatched aura unlike any fighter in history. Its inaugural event was held at the [[Tokyo Dome]] on October 11, 1997. Pride held more than [[List of Pride events|sixty]] mixed martial arts events, broadcast to about 40 countries worldwide.<ref name="whatispride">[http://www.pridefc.com/pride2005/whats_about01.htm What is Pride?] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071022043429/http://www.pridefc.com/pride2005/whats_about01.htm |date=2007-10-22 }}, Official Pride site. Last retrieved December 5, 2006</ref> PRIDE was owned by the [[holding company]] [[Dream Stage Entertainment]] (DSE).
For the ten years of its existence, PRIDE was one of the most popular MMA organizations in the world. Pride broadcast its event on Japanese [[pay-per-view]] and [[free-to-air]] television for millions of spectators in Japan, holding large events in sports stadiums, including the largest live MMA event audience record of 91,107 people at the Pride and [[K-1]] co-production, ''[[Pride Shockwave|Shockwave/Dynamite]]'', held in August 2002,<ref name="Total Attendance">{{cite web|title=Total Attendance|url=http://www.tapology.com/search/mma-event-figures/total-attendance|website=tapology.com|access-date=19 March 2015}}</ref> as well as the audience record of over 67,450 people at the ''[[Pride Final Conflict 2003]]''.<ref name=":1" />
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