| 2003 in Pride FC | ||||
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| Information | ||||
| First date | March 16, 2003 | |||
| Last date | December 31, 2003 | |||
| Events | ||||
| Total events | 6 | |||
| Fights | ||||
| Total fights | 51 | |||
| Title fights | 2 | |||
| Chronology | ||||
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The year2003 was the 7th year in the history of thePride Fighting Championships, amixed martial arts promotion based in Japan. 2003 had 6 events beginning with,Pride 25 - Body Blow.
| Title fights in 2003 | ||||||||
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| Weight class | Method | Round | Time | Event | Notes | |||
| Heavyweight | Fedor Emelianenko | def. | Antônio Rodrigo Nogueira | Decision (Unanimous) | 3 | 5:00 | Pride 25: Body Blow | [a] |
| Heavyweight | Antônio Rodrigo Nogueira | def. | Mirko Cro Cop | Submission (Armbar) | 2 | 1:45 | Pride Final Conflict 2003 | [b] |
The following fighters fought their first Pride FC fight in 2003:
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| # | Event | Japanese name | Date held | Venue | City | Attendance |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 36 | Pride FC - Shockwave 2003 | Otoko Matsuri | December 31, 2003 | Saitama Super Arena | Saitama,Japan | 39,716 |
| 35 | Pride FC - Final Conflict 2003 | Ketsushosen | November 9, 2003 | Tokyo Dome | Tokyo,Japan | 67,451 |
| 34 | Pride FC - Bushido 1 | — | October 5, 2003 | Saitama Super Arena | Saitama,Japan | — |
| 33 | Pride FC - Total Elimination 2003 | Kaimakusen | August 10, 2003 | Saitama Super Arena | Saitama,Japan | 40,316 |
| 32 | Pride 26 - Bad to the Bone | Reborn | June 8, 2003 | Yokohama Arena | Yokohama,Japan | — |
| 31 | Pride 25 - Body Blow | — | March 16, 2003 | Yokohama Arena | Yokohama,Japan | — |
| Pride 25 | ||||
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| Promotion | Pride Fighting Championships | |||
| Date | March 16, 2003 | |||
| Venue | Yokohama Arena | |||
| City | Yokohama,Japan | |||
| Attendance | 19,247 | |||
| Event chronology | ||||
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Pride 25: Body Blow[1] was an event held on March 16, 2003, at theYokohama Arena inYokohama,Japan.
| Main Card | |||||||
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| Weight class | Method | Round | Time | Notes | |||
| Heavyweight | Fedor Emelianenko | def. | Antônio Rodrigo Nogueira | Decision (Unanimous) | 3 | 5:00 | [a] |
| Quinton Jackson | def. | Kevin Randleman | KO (knee and punches) | 1 | 6:58 | [b] | |
| Antônio Schembri | def. | Kazushi Sakuraba | TKO (Knees and soccer kicks) | 1 | 6:15 | ||
| Dan Henderson | def. | Shungo Oyama | TKO (Punches) | 1 | 3:28 | ||
| Anderson Silva | def. | Carlos Newton | KO (Flying Knee and Punches) | 1 | 6:27 | ||
| Alexander Otsuka | def. | Kenichi Yamamoto | Decision (Unanimous) | 3 | 5:00 | ||
| Akira Shoji | def. | Alex Stiebling | Decision (Split) | 3 | 5:00 | ||
| Antônio Rogério Nogueira | def. | Kazuhiro Nakamura | Submission (Armbar) | 2 | 3:49 | ||
| Pride 26 | ||||
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| Promotion | Pride Fighting Championships | |||
| Date | June 8, 2003 | |||
| Venue | Yokohama Arena | |||
| City | Yokohama,Japan | |||
| Event chronology | ||||
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Pride 26: Bad to the Bone[2] was an event held on June 8, 2003, at theYokohama Arena inYokohama,Japan.
| Main Card | |||||||
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| Weight class | Method | Round | Time | Notes | |||
| Fedor Emelianenko | def. | Kazuyuki Fujita | Submission (Rear-Naked Choke) | 1 | 4:17 | [a] | |
| Mirko Cro Cop | def. | Heath Herring | TKO (Kick to the Body and Punches) | 1 | 3:17 | ||
| Mark Coleman | def. | Don Frye | Decision (Unanimous) | 3 | 5:00 | ||
| Quinton Jackson | def. | Mikhail Ilyukhin | Submission (Knee to the Body) | 1 | 6:26 | ||
| Alistair Overeem | def. | Mike Bencic | TKO (Submission to Knee to the Body and Punches) | 1 | 3:44 | ||
| Daiju Takase | def. | Anderson Silva | Submission (Triangle Choke) | 1 | 8:33 | ||
| Kazuhiro Hamanaka | def. | Antônio Schembri | Decision (Unanimous) | 3 | 5:00 | ||
| Pride: Total Elimination 2003 | ||||
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| Promotion | Pride Fighting Championships | |||
| Date | August 10, 2003 | |||
| Venue | Saitama Super Arena | |||
| City | Saitama,Japan | |||
| Attendance | 40,316 | |||
| Event chronology | ||||
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Pride FC: Total Elimination 2003[3] was an event held on August 10, 2003, at theSaitama Super Arena inSaitama,Japan.
| Main Card | |||||||
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| Weight class | Method | Round | Time | Notes | |||
| Wanderlei Silva | def. | Kazushi Sakuraba | KO (Punch) | 1 | 5:01 | [a] | |
| Hidehiko Yoshida | def. | Kiyoshi Tamura | Submission (Ezekiel Choke) | 1 | 5:06 | [b] | |
| Mirko Cro Cop | def. | Igor Vovchanchyn | KO (Head Kick) | 1 | 1:29 | ||
| Antônio Rodrigo Nogueira | def. | Ricco Rodriguez | Decision (Unanimous) | 3 | 5:00 | ||
| Quinton Jackson | def. | Murilo Bustamante | Decision (Split) | 3 | 5:00 | [c] | |
| Chuck Liddell | def. | Alistair Overeem | KO (Punches) | 1 | 3:09 | [d] | |
| Fedor Emelianenko | def. | Gary Goodridge | TKO (soccer kicks/punches) | 1 | 1:09 | [e] | |
| Quarter-finals | Semi-finals | Final | ||||||||
 Chuck Liddell | KO | |||||||||
 Alistair Overeem | 3:09 | |||||||||
| Chuck Liddell | ||||||||||
| Quinton Jackson | ||||||||||
| Quinton Jackson | SD | |||||||||
 Murilo Bustamante | 20:00 | |||||||||
| Quinton Jackson | ||||||||||
| Wanderlei Silva | ||||||||||
 Hidehiko Yoshida | SUB | |||||||||
| Kiyoshi Tamura | 5:06 | |||||||||
| Hidehiko Yoshida | ||||||||||
| Wanderlei Silva | ||||||||||
| Wanderlei Silva | KO | |||||||||
| Kazushi Sakuraba | 5:01 | |||||||||
| Pride: Bushido 1 | ||||
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| Promotion | Pride Fighting Championships | |||
| Date | October 5, 2003 | |||
| Venue | Saitama Super Arena | |||
| City | Saitama | |||
| Event chronology | ||||
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Pride FC: Bushido 1[4] Is an event held by thePride Fighting Championships at theSaitama Super Arena inSaitama,Japan on October 5, 2003. The card was billed as Team Japan Vs. Team Gracie, with five bouts featuring a Japanese fighter represented byHidehiko Yoshida and a member of theGracie family represented byRoyce Gracie. In the main event,Dos Caras, Jr. became the first Hispanic fighter to compete in Pride and the first to wear alucha libre mask during a bout. He is now better known asWWE pro wrestler Alberto Del Rio.
| Main Card | |||||||
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| Weight class | Method | Round | Time | Notes | |||
| Mirko Cro Cop | def. | Alberto Rodriguez | KO (Head Kick) | 1 | 0:46 | ||
| Alexander Emelianenko | def. | Assuério Silva | Decision (Split) | 2 | 5:00 | ||
| Maurício Rua | def. | Akira Shoji | KO (Punches) | 1 | 3:47 | ||
| Ryan Gracie | def. | Kazuhiro Hamanaka | TKO (Soccer Kicks) | 1 | 7:37 | ||
| Rodrigo Gracie | def. | Daiju Takase | Decision (Unanimous) | 2 | 5:00 | ||
| Kazuhiro Nakamura | def. | Daniel Gracie | Decision (Unanimous) | 2 | 5:00 | ||
| Ralph Gracie | def. | Dokonjonosuke Mishima | Decision (Unanimous) | 2 | 5:00 | ||
| Carlos Newton | def. | Renzo Gracie | Decision (Split) | 2 | 5:00 | ||
| Sergei Kharitonov | def. | Jason Suttie | Submission (Armbar) | 1 | 2:25 | ||
| Chalid Arrab | def. | Rodney Glunder | Decision (Unanimous) | 2 | 5:00 | ||
| Chris Brennan | def. | Eiji Mitsuoka | Submission (Kimura) | 1 | 4:31 | [a] | |
| Pride: Final Conflict 2003 | ||||
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| Promotion | Pride | |||
| Date | November 9, 2003 | |||
| Venue | Tokyo Dome | |||
| City | Tokyo,Japan | |||
| Attendance | 67,450 | |||
| Event chronology | ||||
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Pride FC: Final Conflict 2003[5] was an event held on November 9, 2003, at theTokyo Dome inTokyo,Japan. This event was host to the semi-finals and finals of the 2003 Pride Middleweight Grand Prix tournament. The first round of the tournament was contested at thePride: Total Elimination 2003 event the previous August.
| Main Card | |||||||
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| Weight class | Method | Round | Time | Notes | |||
| Wanderlei Silva | def. | Quinton Jackson | TKO (Knees) | 1 | 6:28 | [a] | |
| Heavyweight | Antônio Rodrigo Nogueira | def. | Mirko Cro Cop | Submission (Armbar) | 2 | 1:45 | [b] |
| Kazushi Sakuraba | def. | Kevin Randleman | Submission (Armbar) | 3 | 2:36 | ||
| Heath Herring | def. | Yoshihisa Yamamoto | Submission (Rear-Naked Choke) | 3 | 2:29 | ||
| Dan Henderson | def. | Murilo Bustamante | TKO (Punches) | 1 | 0:53 | [c] | |
| Wanderlei Silva | def. | Hidehiko Yoshida | Decision (Unanimous) | 2 | 5:00 | [d] | |
| Quinton Jackson | def. | Chuck Liddell | TKO (Corner Stoppage) | 2 | 3:10 | [e] | |
| Gary Goodridge | def. | Dan Bobish | TKO (Punches) | 1 | 0:18 | ||
| Quarter-finals | Semi-finals | Final | ||||||||
| Chuck Liddell | KO | |||||||||
| Alistair Overeem | 3:09 | |||||||||
| Chuck Liddell | 13:10 | |||||||||
| Quinton Jackson | TKO | |||||||||
| Quinton Jackson | DD | |||||||||
| Murilo Bustamante | 20:00 | |||||||||
| Quinton Jackson | 6:28 | |||||||||
| Wanderlei Silva | TKO | |||||||||
| Hidehiko Yoshida | SUB | |||||||||
| Kiyoshi Tamura | 5:06 | |||||||||
| Hidehiko Yoshida | 15:00 | |||||||||
| Wanderlei Silva | UD | |||||||||
| Wanderlei Silva | KO | |||||||||
| Kazushi Sakuraba | 5:01 | |||||||||
| Pride: Shockwave 2003 | ||||
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| Promotion | Pride Fighting Championships | |||
| Date | December 31, 2003 | |||
| Venue | Saitama Super Arena | |||
| City | Saitama | |||
| Attendance | 39,716 | |||
| Event chronology | ||||
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Pride FC: Shockwave 2003[6] was an event held on December 31, 2003, at theSaitama Super Arena inSaitama,Japan.
| Main Card | |||||||
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| Weight class | Method | Round | Time | Notes | |||
| Antônio Rogério Nogueira | def. | Kazushi Sakuraba | Decision (Unanimous) | 3 | 5:00 | ||
| Kiyoshi Tamura | def. | Rony Sefo | Submission (Armbar) | 1 | 2:20 | ||
| Yuki Kondo | def. | Mario Sperry | TKO (Doctor Stoppage) | 1 | 3:27 | ||
| Daniel Gracie | def. | Wataru Sakata | Submission (Armbar) | 1 | 7:12 | ||
| Gary Goodridge | def. | Don Frye | KO (Head Kick) | 1 | 0:39 | ||
| Royce Gracie | vs. | Hidehiko Yoshida | Draw | 2 | 10:00 | ||
| Murilo Rua | def. | Akira Shoji | KO (Flying Knee) | 1 | 2:24 | ||
| Hayato Sakurai | def. | Daiju Takase | Decision (Unanimous) | 3 | 5:00 | ||
| Heath Herring | def. | Paulo Cesar Silva | Submission (Rear-Naked Choke) | 3 | 0:35 | ||
| Quinton Jackson | def. | Ikuhisa Minowa | TKO (Punches) | 2 | 1:05 | ||