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SCRAPP! FIGHT MAGAZINE
February - 2015
39
So you say you’re an MMA fan,
but you never bothered with
much outside of the UFC. You
watched back when Tito beat
Shamrock in a couple of quick
finishes. When the Lesnar ef-
fect was in full swing. When
Georges St. Pierre was not im-
pressed with Matt Hughes.
That’s great. This isn’t going
to be one of those “if you
don’t watch obscure MMA
promotions, you’re not a true
fan” rants. Can’t name all the
Shooto, VTJ, and Dream cham-
pions? No problem. Can’t say
who won the early UFC events
outside of Gracie at UFC 1?
Fair enough. Missed Cro-Cop
knocking out Ishii on the New
Year’s show? No worries. Pride
never die? Well, Pride frankly is
dead — but the memory of it
lives on. Some of the love for it
is nostalgia, and sugar coated
memories (if you were in Japan
when Pride was at its peak,
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