Pride Fighting Championships (
Pride or
Pride FC, founded as
KRS-Pride) was a Japanese
mixed martial arts (MMA) organization founded by Nobuyuki Sakakibara and
Nobuhiko Takada. Its inaugural event was held at the
Tokyo Dome on October 11, 1997. Pride held more than
sixty mixed martial arts events, broadcast to about 40 countries worldwide. Pride held the largest live MMA event audience record of 91,107 people at the Pride and
K-1 co-production,
Shockwave/Dynamite, held in August 2002, as well as the audience record of over 67,450 people at the
Pride Final Conflict 2003.