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Pride Fighting Championships: Pride Fighting Legacy, Vol. 4

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This is a nice collection of Pride events from 2001-2002. Included in the collection are Pride 17--Championship Chaos 11/3/01, Pride 18--Cold Fury 2 12/23/01, Pride 20--Armed and Ready 4/28/02, Pride 21--Demolition 6/23/02, and Pride 22--Beasts from the East 2 9/29/02. All these events took place in Japan. Missing from this is Pride 19--Bad Blood 2/24/02 and Pride Shockwave 2002 8/28/02. I can understand Bad Blood being left out since it was released as a 2 disc special edition. Shockwave 2002 has never been released in the US on dvd as far as I can tell. Shockwave, Total Elimination, and Final Conflict were always the really big shows for the now defunct Pride FC so I can see why they would want to release them on their own, but Pride is dropping the ball by not even releasing the event at all. These Legacy sets are terrific for fans wanted to collect Pride events, but they are making things confusing when they don't have to. Now that the UFC owns the library you may see the catalog released in chronological order. Really some great events here with many fighters you are seeing pop up at the UFC recently. Henderson, Jackson, A. Silva, Herring, Nogueria, V. Silva, and hopefully one day Feder.

Pride Legacy 4 is a 5-DVD set featuring Pride FC 17-18 and 20-22. For those used to American MMA, Pride presented a unique brand of Mixed Martial Arts with different sets of rules, judging, and round structures. The Japanese crowd was unusually quiet and respectful during a match. This period of Pride saw the growing career of some contemporary stars such as Fedor, Wanderlie, Rampage, and Anderson Silva.

Pride 17 Championship Chaos 11/03/01
Kazushi Sakuraba vs. Wanderlei Silva
Heath Herring vs. Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira
Tom Erikson vs. Matt Skelton
Mario Sperry vs. Igor Vovchanchyn
Masaaki Satake vs. Semmy Schilt
Dan Henderson vs. Murilo Rua
Quinton Jackson vs. Yuki Ishikawa
Renzo Gracie vs. Michiyoshi Ohara

Pride 18 Cold Fury 2 12/23/01
Alexander Otsuka vs. Wanderlei Silva
Jeremy Horn vs. Akira Shoji
Valentijn Overeem vs. Igor Vovchanchyn
Jan Nortje vs. Yoshihisa Yamamoto
Alex Andrade vs. Murilo Rua
Allan Goes vs. Alex Stiebling
Quinton Jackson vs. Daijiro Matsui

Pride 20 Armed and Ready 04/28/02
Bob Sapp vs. Yoshihisa Yamamoto
Quinton Jackson vs. Masaaki Satake
Yusuke Imamura vs. Antonio Rogerio Nogueira
Ricardo Arona vs. Dan Henderson
Murilo Rua vs. Mario Sperry
Sanae Kikuta vs. Alexander Otsuka
Mirko Filipović vs. Wanderlei Silva

Pride 21 Demolition 06/23/02
Don Frye vs. Yoshihiro Takayama
Fedor Emelianenko vs. Semmy Schilt
Daniel Gracie vs. Takashi Sugiura
Renzo Gracie vs. Shungo Oyama
Jeremy Horn vs. Gilbert Yvel
Anderson Silva vs. Alex Stiebling
Gary Goodridge vs. Achmed Labasanov
Bob Sapp vs. Kiyoshi Tamura

Pride 22 Beast from the East 2 09/29/02
Ryan Gracie vs. Shungo Oyama
Quinton Jackson vs. Igor Vovchanchyn
Andrei Kopylov vs. Mario Sperry
Heath Herring vs. Iouri Kotchkine
Paulo Filho vs. Akira Shoji
Alexander Otsuka vs. Anderson Silva
Guy Mezger vs. Yoshihisa Yamamoto
Michiyoshi Ohara vs. Kevin Randleman

Each disc has its own Special Features, these include 'Photo Gallery', 'Fighter Bios', 'Rules', 'What is Pride FC?'. Some of these are repeats from earlier discs. For Pride 20, Rampage does a special voice-over commentary for his match being a clown as usual. Terrific set showcasing Pride during an era when it rivaled the UFC.

This five dvd set features Pride events 17,18,20,21,and 22.

The main fights are;W.Silva vs K.Sakuraba,H.Herring vs A.Nogueira,M.Cro Cop vs W.Silva,R.Gracie vs S.Oyama,S.Schilt vs.Y.Takayama,D.Frye vs Y.Takayama,and W.Silva vs A.Otsuka.All dvds contain the entire fight card.

All I can say is keep them coming and thanks for saving me some money by selling them together for the price of one!

This dvd set is really worth the money!
I have watched all of the Pride Legacy series so far and i think this is the best.
There are some great fights, one of Rampage Jacksons slams has amazing results.....watch out for it.

Go ahead and get it I don't think you'll be displeased with it at all.

If you have seen the earlier Pride Legacy dvds then you will see this as a continuing step towards the great pride events of today. Many of the early Pride events had great matches but are not even close to being great events. Today, the MMA fan wants excitement and a variety of styles and personalities. This volume of Legacy has all of those and not just for one match per event but for almost the whole events. Some of the discs are better than others but everything is good. If you do not have any Legacy sets than this is where you should start collecting old events. Then move backwards till it gets too boring for you to stand and dismiss any event past that threshold. But I highly recommend this one.

The DVD's were in great condition for being older. Obviously taken care of. I am a huge fan of MMA and the Pride FC and am so thankful glad I was able to find them all on amazon.