Pride Grand Prix 2000 Finals
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Pride Grand Prix 2000 Finals | ||||
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Information | ||||
Promotion | Pride Fighting Championships | |||
Date | May 1, 2000 | |||
Venue | Tokyo Dome | |||
City | Tokyo | |||
Attendance | 38,429[1] | |||
Event chronology | ||||
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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 | |||||||
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Weight class | Method | Round | Time | Notes | |||
Openweight | Mark Coleman | def. | Igor Vovchanchyn | Submission (knees) | 2 | 3:09 | [lower-alpha 1] |
Superfight | |||||||
Superfight | Ken Shamrock | def. | Alexander Otsuka | KO (punches) | 1 | 9:43 | [lower-alpha 2] |
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 | [lower-alpha 3] |
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 | [lower-alpha 4] |
Openweight | Mark Coleman | def. | Akira Shoji | Unanimous decision | |||
Openweight | Kazuyuki Fujita | def. | Mark Kerr | Unanimous decision | |||
Other | |||||||
Guy Mezger | def. | Masaaki Satake | Unanimous decision |
- ↑ Coleman won the Pride Grand Prix 2000 tournament and the $200,000 grand prize.
- ↑ Pride Grand Prix 2000 Superfight Finals.
- ↑ Fujita's corner threw in the towel immediately due to injuries suffered in his quarterfinal bout against Mark Kerr.
- ↑ 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 Round | Quarter-finals | Semi-finals | Final | |||||||||||
Royce Gracie | DEC | |||||||||||||
Nobuhiko Takada | ||||||||||||||
Royce Gracie | 90:00 | |||||||||||||
Kazushi Sakuraba | TKO | |||||||||||||
Kazushi Sakuraba | TKO | |||||||||||||
Guy Mezger | 15:00 | |||||||||||||
Kazushi Sakuraba | 15:00 | |||||||||||||
Igor Vovchanchyn | TKO | |||||||||||||
Igor Vovchanchyn | DEC | |||||||||||||
Alexander Otsuka | ||||||||||||||
Igor Vovchanchyn | TKO | |||||||||||||
Gary Goodridge | 10:14 | |||||||||||||
Gary Goodridge | SUB | |||||||||||||
Osamu Kawahara | 0:51 | |||||||||||||
Igor Vovchanchyn | 3:09 | |||||||||||||
Mark Coleman | SUB | |||||||||||||
Mark Coleman | SUB | |||||||||||||
Masaaki Satake | 1:14 | |||||||||||||
Mark Coleman | DEC | |||||||||||||
Akira Shoji | ||||||||||||||
Akira Shoji | DEC | |||||||||||||
Ebenezer Fontes Braga | ||||||||||||||
Mark Coleman | TKO | |||||||||||||
Kazuyuki Fujita | 0:02 | |||||||||||||
Mark Kerr | DEC | |||||||||||||
Enson Inoue | ||||||||||||||
Mark Kerr | ||||||||||||||
Kazuyuki Fujita | DEC | |||||||||||||
Kazuyuki Fujita | SUB | |||||||||||||
Hans Nijman | 2:48 | |||||||||||||
See also
- Pride Grand Prix 2000 Opening Round
- Pride FC
- List of Pride FC champions
- List of Pride FC events
- 2000 in Pride FC