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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Pride: Championship Chaos 2, August 4, 2006
November 24, 2002
Tokyo, Japan
Hirotaka Yokoi vs. Jerrell Venitiaan:
Yokoi is a submission fighter, while Venitiaan is a striker. It is obvious that Yokoi wants to take the fight to the ground and Venitiaan wants to keep it standing. Venitiaan is taken down immediately, so things don't look good for him from the outset. Yokoi controls him and continually passes his guard with ease. Yokoi even mounts Venitiaan a number of times in the first round. Venitiaan does not fight a smart fight.
Kevin "The Monster" Randleman vs. Kenichi Yamamoto:
Randleman makes the pre-fight statement that he was sick in his last fight, which he obviously lost, hence the excuse. For this fight, however, he claims to be 100%. Randleman controls the fight on the ground, even making submission attempts throughout the round. Bas Rutten makes the observation that this looks like a new Kevin Randleman. He has dropped some weight and he indeed looks to be a different fighter. The fight briefly goes to the feet and Randleman drops Yamamoto. It appears that Yamamoto is outclassed on the ground and standing... there's not much left for him to attempt.
Murilo "Ninja" Rua vs. Ricardo Arona:
These two want at each other badly. They both speak of the lack of respect the other has and how they are going to teach the other a lesson. By the time they are staring across the ring at each other, the air is electric. Rua opens with a high-flying knee. Arona almost catches him in mid-air... The action is frenzied in his high-energy fight. Arona gets a few takedowns, yet Rua appears to be the busier fighter. It is a very close fight. It ultimately goes to a decision and the winner will obviously have his sights set on Wanderlei Silva.
Heath "Texas Crazy Horse" Herring vs. Emelianenko Fedor:
I don't think anyone expected to see what they saw in this fight. Let me just say that in this fight, we witness a dominating force that changes the Pride heavyweight division... Amazing! This is a must-see. The winner gets to face Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira for the title.
Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira vs. Semmy Schilt:
Nogueira again has his work cut out for him, facing a much larger opponent. He makes many attempts and after much struggle, finally gets Schilt down on the ground. After this, we all know what happens next.
Wanderlei "The Axe Murderer" Silva vs. Hirokitsu Kanehara:
Silva flurries early, landing good shots on Kanehara. Kanehara goes down under the pressure of the assault. He gets up, they exchange again with the same result - he goes down again. This one ends in a mercy stoppage.
Don "The Predator" Frye vs. Hidehiko Yoshida:
This is a decent fight, but you probably won't care for the outcome. I miss the young Don Frye.
Kazushi Sakuraba vs. Gilles Arsene:
Sakuraba controls the flow of the fight, although it's not all that exciting. It drags on until the 3rd round, when we finally see a submission applied to end it.
This is what I like about Pride Fighting: you get to see all of the stars each time out. One of the only criticisms I have of the UFC is that on most fight cards, you get one really good matchup (maybe 2, occassionally) and a bunch of up-and-comers fighting for recognition. In Pride, I see nearly all of the big names on every fight card. Championship Chaos 2 is another amazing and exciting event. I highly recommend it.
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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
A very good event!, December 21, 2005
If you want another great event check out the first Championship Chaos show. It features some of the greatest and historic fights in the history of Pride. Including two of Pride's first ever championship fights. The heavyweight championship fight between Heath Herring and "Minotauro" Nogueira is among the greatest fights of all time, and definately in my top 10 list.
On this card however, there are also some very good fights. If you know about the Brazilian Top Team vs Chute Boxe rivalry, this card features a fight between two young guns from both teams in Ricardo Arona and Murilo Rua, with a lot of rivalry happening between them. This being only the second fight between both teams on the big stage of Pride, it foreshadows an intense competitiveness between the teams. Not only are both teams from different cities in Brazil, they also take Pride in their own styles of fighting. Brazilian Top Team being mainly Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, and Chute Boxe being primarily Muay Thai.
If you buy this DVD you'll also get a very historic retirement fight you wouldn't have seen on ppv in America. Kiyoshi Tamura vs Nobuhiko Takada. Takada is one of the most famous faces in Japan and is the most popular pro-wrestler over there. This marks his retirement from pro-wrestling and fighting.
A couple of other very intense and aggressive fights include Fedor Emelianenko vs Heath Herring, and Wanderlei Silva vs Hiromitsu Kanehara. Fedor is the current heavyweight champion of Pride, and you can see why in this fight as he puts on a nonstop ground and pound clinic.
The famous judoka Hidehiko Yoshida also makes his debut under MMA rules in this event as he faces the most famous American fighter, Don Frye. If you're a fan of MMA you shouldn't hesitate to get this, and if you're not this would be a decent introduction to the sport.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
GOOD EVENT, May 6, 2007
PRIDE
CHAMPIONSHIP CHAOS 2
This was nice little event that Pride held a while back, the intro was funny. The bit with Don Frye and Bas Rutten was pretty funny. Any way the fights were as follows
1.HIROTAKA YOKOI VS JERREL VENETIAAN-this is the classic striker vs. ground guy fight. I didn't think Yokoi would have such an easy fight to start out with; he easily took Jerrel down and gave him some knees. Yokoi basically controlled this fight in the first round he even mounted Jerrel multiple times and threw some nice punches. If not for the bell Yokoi would have won with the arm bar. Basically the same thing happened in round two until Yokoi locked in the arm bar and won the match.4/5
2.KEVIN RANDLEMAN VS KENICHI YAMAMOTO-Randleman came out real aggressive on this fight and took control early on. It stayed on the ground for a while until Kenichi got out only to be knocked back down with a sick left from Kevin. The second round went about the same, and in the third round Kevin gave him a sick knee to the head that knocked Kenichi out.4.5/5
3.MURILO RUA VS RICARDO ARONA-this was a rematch from an earlier fight between the two, apparently they have a grudge to settle. This fight started out crazy with an amazing flying knee, this fight was going back and forth for a while. This fight was great it went from the ground to standing and back again, these two really disliked each other. There were nice moves and counters to each move from the fighters, true meaning of none stop action. The ending of round one was great and leaves you wanting more for the second round. Round two starts with a couple of punches and a hard take down, and then the round looks like the first. Round three starts with a nice kick from Arona and then they clinch up, then the action is just as good as the previous rounds. Arona ends up winning the this fight barely due to judges decistion.5/5
4.HEATH HERRING VS FEDOR EMELIANENKO-fight started with Heath being slammed, and from there we have a match that has the two fighters trading moves on each other. Heath takes some really hard punches that cause him to bleed real bad from under his eye. Heath gets slammed again and controlled by Fedor as soon as they go back at it. Fedor dominates the round until the last minute when Heath gets on top. The fight is stopped after the first round and Fedor is awarded the fight.5/5
5.ANTONIO RODRIGO NOGUEIRA VS SEMMY SCHILT-this was a pretty good fight that only lasted the first round, about seven minutes to be exact. It went back and forth for a while until Antonio locked in a triangle choke hold for the submission victory.4.5/5
6.WANDERLEI SILVA VS HIROMITSU KANEHARA-this was the championship match of the night, and one of the fights I was looking forward to. This fight started out with a slugfest that led to a kick to the head of H.K., man did it look hard. Every time this fight stood up it looked like the opening seconds all over again until they stopped the fight and Silva retained his title.5/5
7.DON FRYE VS HIDEHIKO YOSHIDA- one of the main events of the evening, and the fight I was looking forward to. At the beginning of the fight it looked as if H.Y. was going to pull off a quick victory until Frye made his way on to the top. But while still in the first Don Frye lost to a killer arm bar, good but short fight.4.5/5
8.KAZUSHI SAKURABA VS GILLES ARSENE-the last fight of the evening that featured everybody's favorite little guy, Sakuraba. Sakuraba pretty much controls this fight threw out the first round, it seems as if this was an easy fight for him. The first round was pretty dull compared to other fights that took place earlier during the evening. The second round was just as uneventful, nothing really happened here that much either, until Sakuraba started punching the guy. The third round ended pretty quickly when Gilles tapped to an arm bar.4/5
9.BONUS FIGHT-KIYOSHI TAMURA VS NOBUHIKO TAKADA-this fight starts out slow with both standing and eventually going into some striking from both. Eventually Takada gets put on his back but is allowed to get back up. Both continue to exchange blows on the feet until Takada gets hit with a low blow, he was down for a while. Eventually when he recovers the fight continues, and Takada takes some nasty leg kicks, then takes Tamura down. The round would end with both standing. The fight ends in the beginning of the second when Takada gets knocked out with a well placed right from Tamura. Takada loses his retirement fight.
Over all a good event, I recommend it to everyone.
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