Pride Grand Prix 2000 Opening Round
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| Pride Grand Prix 2000 Opening Round | ||||
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| A poster or logo for Pride Grand Prix 2000 Opening Round. | ||||
| Information | ||||
| Promotion | Pride Fighting Championships | |||
| Date | January 30, 2000 | |||
| Venue | Tokyo Dome | |||
| City | Tokyo | |||
| Attendance | 48,316[1] | |||
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The Pride Grand Prix 2000 Opening Round was a mixed martial arts event held by the Pride Fighting Championships. It took place at the Tokyo Dome in Tokyo, Japan on January 30, 2000. The event began the Pride Openweight tournament of 2000.
Results
| Openweight Opening Round | |||||||
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| Weight class | Method | Round | Time | Notes | |||
| Openweight | Royce Gracie | def. | Nobuhiko Takada | Decision (Unanimous) | 1 | 15:00 | |
| Openweight | Kazushi Sakuraba | def. | Guy Mezger | TKO (retirement) | 1 | 15:00 | [lower-alpha 1] |
| Openweight | Igor Vovchanchyn | def. | Alexander Otsuka | Decision (Unanimous) | 1 | 15:00 | |
| Openweight | Gary Goodridge | def. | Osamu Kawahara | submission (forearm choke) | 1 | 0:51 | |
| Openweight | Mark Coleman | def. | Masaaki Satake | submission (neck crank) | 1 | 1:14 | |
| Openweight | Akira Shoji | def. | Ebenezer Fontes Braga | Decision (Unanimous) | 1 | 15:00 | |
| Openweight | Mark Kerr | def. | Enson Inoue | Decision (Unanimous) | 1 | 15:00 | |
| Openweight | Kazuyuki Fujita | def. | Hans Nijman | submission (scarf hold) | 1 | 2:48 | |
| Alternate Bout | |||||||
| Openweight | Wanderlei Silva | def. | Bob Schrijber | submission (rear-naked choke) | 1 | 2:42 | |
- ↑ Mezger forfeited the fight by leaving the ring after the bout was declared a draw and sent to an overtime round.
Pride 2000 Grand Prix Bracket
| Opening Round January 30, 2000 |
Quarter-finals May 1, 2000 |
Semi-finals May 1, 2000 |
Final May 1, 2000 |
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 Royce Gracie |
DEC | |||||||||||||
 Nobuhiko Takada |
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| Royce Gracie |
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| Kazushi Sakuraba |
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| Kazushi Sakuraba |
TKO | |||||||||||||
 Guy Mezger |
15:00 | |||||||||||||
| Kazushi Sakuraba |
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 Igor Vovchanchyn |
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| Igor Vovchanchyn |
DEC | |||||||||||||
| Alexander Otsuka |
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| Igor Vovchanchyn |
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 Gary Goodridge |
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| Gary Goodridge |
SUB | |||||||||||||
| Osamu Kawahara |
0:51 | |||||||||||||
| Igor Vovchanchyn |
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| Mark Coleman |
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| Mark Coleman |
SUB | |||||||||||||
| Masaaki Satake |
1:14 | |||||||||||||
| Mark Coleman |
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| Akira Shoji |
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| Akira Shoji |
DEC | |||||||||||||
| Ebenezer Fontes Braga |
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| Mark Coleman |
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| Kazuyuki Fujita |
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| Mark Kerr |
DEC | |||||||||||||
| Enson Inoue |
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| Mark Kerr |
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| Kazuyuki Fujita |
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| Kazuyuki Fujita |
SUB | |||||||||||||
 Hans Nijman |
2:48 | |||||||||||||
References
See also
- Pride Grand Prix 2000 Finals
- Pride FC
- List of Pride FC champions
- List of Pride FC events
- 2000 in Pride FC
