How to win a Pride Fighting match....

...hit the other guy with the floor. Hard. Preferably in the face. Following up on my other posts, I finally got round to watching more of the Pride FC DVDs. I'm on Disc 2, Critical Countdown 2004. The fights are way better on this disc. By way better of course I mean more people get hit in the face. Few notable mentions - big seven foot brazilian dude called De Silva or something who looks like a large tree and speaks like André the Giant (Remember Princes Bride, I love that movie..), also some japanese guy who came out wearing a pair of pyjamas and carrying a pillow. As fantastically over the top as WWF (or WWE or whatever) but with more real face kicking. Highlight has to be Quinton "Rampage" jackson's awesome slam. The fight was going the way a lot of them seem to go where there two fighters end up in a grapple type hold situation on the canvas and all the men in the audience get uncomfortable coz its looking a bit Brokenback Mountain. Rampage Jackson was having none of it though and decided to stand up with his opponent's legs still locked around his neck. He must have lifted the guy about 8 feet off the ground before slamming him into the ground head first. The commentators cheered, Rampage split his face open, his opponent passed out (few punches in the head first to make sure) and the crowd lost their friggin minds!!!