One of the things I've always hated about Pride fights was their use of tournament fighting. UFC has one fight for each fighter per night. Makes total sense and fair to the fighters. Japanese Pride tournament fights sometimes has the fighter fight 3 fighters in one night! Elimination tournament fighting is just stupid. Often times a fighter would be too injured to fight the next fighter. You can't crown champions like that. What if one person gets easy fights and the other gets hard fights that night. When they finally meet, the one who got hard fights would be too exhausted or injured to really compete for the championship.
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