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Anybody remember a really old MMA show on Sky Sports?

  • 14-07-2008 2:44am
    #1
    ThatBloke
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    I'm talking maybe 10-12 years ago, I can't remember what it was called, maybe Budokan or something like that. I can remember watching it years ago and thinking it was great. I only remembered it recently, I think some of the Gracies might have featured on it.


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  • #2
    Fozzy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,594 ✭✭✭Fozzy


    Could it have been called Bushido? I know Sky Sports used to show a program under that name from UWFi. It was mostly pro wrestling but it was the forerunner of PRIDE. I don't think any of the Gracies fought there though


  • #3
    Kent Brockman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,282 ✭✭✭Kent Brockman


    Bushido-the way of the warrior!

    It used to be on late. Open hand shots only and you could break a sub by grabbing the bottom rope.
    Might have been a bit like Pancreas (but I may stand to be corrected on that)


  • #4
    Muffin Head
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    I think Bushido is shown (repeated) late on Nuts TV (channel 207) some nights.


  • #5
    Fozzy
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    Kent Brockman wrote: »
    Might have been a bit like Pancreas (but I may stand to be corrected on that)

    It sort of was, Pancrase's rules were a bit more complex at times though. There were a lot more worked matches in UWFi as well

    I found this website that's about the show that was on Sky Sports: http://www.uwf-bushido.com/ There's a free episode here: http://www.uwf-bushido.com/public/92.cfm although it won't play for me


  • #6
    ThatBloke
    Closed Accounts Posts: 362 ✭✭ThatBloke


    That sounds like it might be the one yeah, so was it all works? Would anyone we know have fought in it?


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  • #7
    ThatBloke
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    Found a video, Sakuraba :)

    Some of it seems genuine but the vast majority of it seems choreographed

    http://www.metacafe.com/watch/1306783/uwf_bushido_way_of_the_warrior_trailer/


  • #8
    Fozzy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,594 ✭✭✭Fozzy


    ThatBloke wrote: »
    That sounds like it might be the one yeah, so was it all works? Would anyone we know have fought in it?

    There's a few you might recognise. Apart from Sakuraba, the most successful UWFi guys in MMA were Takada (who PRIDE was initially based around), Tamura and Dan Severn

    It was pro wrestling, so practically everything was worked. I wouldn't call it choreographed though, there'd have been way too much stuff for them to remember most of the time. What they'd often do is go into a match knowing who the winner is going to be and then just beat the **** out of each other! If the guy who's supposed to lose came close to submitting or knocking out their opponent then they'd allow them to get back into it more

    I find stuff from UWFi, as well as the UWF, Pancrase, BattlARTS and RINGS, to be really interesting from a historical perspective when it comes to MMA. Without those companies PRIDE would never have existed


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