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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
mixing the production, but the fights are here, December 3, 2000
First off, I've got the DVD set. There are but 53 fights (55 if you count the two championship "fights" listed as fights but in which one of the competitors could not fight due to injury in their semifinal match - so they just walk out to the ring and concede the fight).Production quality is poor, but varies from disk to disk. One disk has a few noticeable spots with bad macrovision encoding. Also, the disks are not numbered nor listed anywhere in chronological order so if you watch the disk labeled 1 first, you find out who is the tournament winner on 2 other disks, which leaves you knowing the winner of 6 of the fights before they begin - more than 10 percent of the fights, and by the time you've watched 3 videos, I'd guess you know the results of more than half the matches on the remaining ones. The fights are raw. Some are out and out brawls, but, due to 7 ounce gloves, there is little blood. Some events in this "no holds barred" contest have significant rule changes - the Montreal fights allow no headbutts, some rule with respect to elbows, no striking a guy on the ground when you are standing, etc., that significantly detract from the quality of the fights (this is the only time I've ever seen a fight actually get stopped to let a fighter take a breather after an illegal blow). A lot of fights seem to have been stopped by the ref prematurely, IMHO, for the saftety of the fighter. All said, I wouldn't compare the average quality of these fighters to UFC or Pride, but they are the equavalent of minor league stuff, but there are a few significant exceptions.
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