Pride Fighting Championships was created in 1997. Their inaugural event was held in the Tokyo Dome on October 11th, 1997 with the main event of Rickson Gracie vs. Nobuhiko Takada. With an ...

With the fighters in the ring, Yuji Shimada, the referee for the fight and 169 of PRIDE’s 566 total bouts, stood back and let Frye and Takayama lock eyes in one of MMA’s great staredowns.