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Happy 25th Anniversary to one of the greatest Mixed Martial Arts promotions of all time: PRIDE Fighting Championships. Sadly, it was bought out by the UFC in 2007 but as they say, PRIDE never die.

Missing In Action: A Look at Would Be MMA Tournament Participants Part 1

Missing In Action: A Look at Would Be MMA Tournament Participants Part 1
May 30, 2021

By Ryan Porzl

Through out Mixed Martial Arts' history, one thing that it's well known for are it's tournaments. Throughout the last 30 years, many of the top MMA promotions including UFC, PRIDE, Bellator, DREAM, RIZIN, etc. have held tournaments or grand prixes consisting of eight to sixteen participants and the winner receives prize money, a trophy belt, and/or a medal. A lot of these tournaments also consisted of many great fighters, well knowns, or legends. However, not everything goes to plan and over the years, there have been situations where a promotion wants a fighter or negotiates with a fighter, or even flat out announces them for the tournament but for whatever reason, the fighter doesn't participate. Here now are a list of fighters who were supposed to appear in certain tournaments but never did.

MMA Title Fights We Never Got Part 1

MMA Title Fights We Never Got Part 1
February 1, 2021 
By Ryan Porzl

Just recently, I saw a video from MMA On Point on YouTube and the video was "Top 10 Title Fights We Were Robbed Of" which was a video they did two years covering MMA Title fights we nearly got but they ended it up not happening and if they did end up happening, it was many years later or even a little later when a title was no longer on the line. Seeing the video, I thought it would be fun to do my own list especially since they left me with a treasure trove to work with. Not only do I credit MMA On Point for the inspiration for this list, I also decided out of fairness, not only do I give them credit but I will also not use their ten choices since they already used them so if you want to see their list, it's on YouTube as of writing.

Before we start, here was MMA On Points Top Ten List in case you're curious
10. Fabricio Werdum vs. Cain Velasquez
9. Jon Jones vs. Dan Henderson
8. Randy Couture vs. Mark Coleman
7. Jose Aldo vs. Anthony Pettis
6. Max Holloway vs. Khabib Nurmagomedov
5. Dominick Cruz vs. Renan Barao
4. Jon Jones vs. Anthony Johnson
3. Rafael Dos Anjos vs. Conor McGregor
2. Josh Barnett vs. Fedor Emelianenko (Affliction)
1. Khabib Nurmagomedov vs. Tony Ferguson

With that said, here's my list

They Fought In PRIDE!? List of Fighters Who Fought in PRIDE That You May Have Forgotten or Didn't Know About

They Fought In PRIDE!? List of Fighters Who Fought in PRIDE That You May Have Forgotten or Didn't Know About
August 21, 2018
By Ryan Porzl

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A while back, I wrote about fighters that appeared in UFC that many may have forgotten about or didn't know about it. Now, I'm doing one with PRIDE. Once the powerhouse of MMA, PRIDE held over sixty events in ten years with many great fighters. Many legendary fighters are well known but there's still those many may not have known about especially if they didn't fight very long. This list will look back at the well known and not as well known fighters that fought in PRIDE that the fans may have forgotten or didn't know about.

Igor Vovchanchyn Highlight

Simply put before Anderson Silva. Even before Fedor Emelianenko. There was Igor Vovchanchyn.