On this day, Hendo and Gomi stood in the Pride FC ring in the history of combat sport, which also saw a change in the guard in the heavyweight championship ranks of Boxing. On September 25, historically, a number of major events have seen in both boxing and mixed martial arts, on which we are looking back today.
Four years ago, Oleksandr Usyk achieved its first taste of heavyweight glory in his first outing with Anthony Joshua. The Ukrainian warrior defeated AJ through a unanimous decision in Tottenham Hotspur Stadium to claim the WBA, WBA and IBF world titles to start his reign on top of the weight category that remains to this day.
Henderson and Gomi are high in their respective Pride Grand Prix Fields
Twenty years ago, Hendo and Gomi Triumphantally originated from their respective Grand Prix fields in the Pride FC ring. This took place at Pride Bushido 9 with Henderson and Gomi who participated in the Welterweight and lightweight tournamenters respectively.
Then Henderson would continue to the Grand Prix Finals in short order, because the MMA legend Ryo Chonan would be in their fight for less than thirty seconds. Henderson would later go the best Akihiro Gono in the same night and the first would score a KO -victory again. The former UFC tournament winner would stop Gono around eight minutes of the fight and also added a Pride FC tournost title to his decorated cloak.
Takanori Gomi Had his classic competition with Tatsuya Kawajiri on this night and the first was high over the last when the dust settled on Pride Bushido 9. Gomi would finish Kawajiri with a rear naked choke around the eight minutes of the opening round and his ticket hits the last phase of the Grand Prix.
That win Waulted Gomi to the tournament final later on the same night and went against Luiz Azeredo on what a rematch was from their Pride Bushido 7 -fight. ‘The Fireball Kid’ would be 2-0 about Azeredo and a unanimous decision won in the Ariake Coliseum of Tokyo to become the lightweight Grand Prix champion on a night where Hendo and Gomi Triumphantlijk appeared.
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