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Pride Grand Prix
The Pride GP (Grand Prix) is the name for a series of tournaments held by Pride. In addition to a money prize, a championship belt was given to the winner of each tournament, though this belt only denoted the tournament winner and would never be defended. However, Pride's Shockwave 2005 event crowned not only the welterweight and lightweight tournament champions, but also Pride's inaugural welterweight and lightweight champions. Of note is the amount of past and future champions that would participate in these tournaments.
In 2000, Pride held their first grand prix. With no weight limits, it is now considered to be their first openweight grand prix. Held across two events, Pride Grand Prix 2000 Opening Round featured first round bouts and Pride Grand Prix 2000 Finals featured the quarter finals, semi finals and final.

:Netherlands Bob Schrijber vs Brazil Wanderlei Silva

Canada Gary Goodridge vs. Japan Osamu Kawahara

Brazil Ebenezer Fontes Braga vs. Japan Akira Shoji

Japan Kazuyuki Fujita vs. Netherlands Hans Nijman

United States Guy Mezger vs. Japan Kazushi Sakuraba

United States Mark Coleman vs. Japan Masaaki Satake

Japan Alexander Otsuka vs. Ukraine Igor Vovchanchyn

United States Enson Inoue vs. United States Mark Kerr

Brazil Royce Gracie vs. Japan Nobuhiko Takada