Pride? Are you serious??? Do you have any Idea where some of these guys come from and how they got there? Nobody ever "justs" joins the MMA competitions. Every fighter has some sort of amatur or non-amature background before they actually join those competions. I hate people like that, that think "oh im just gonna train in all these arts and join some sort of competion" Like for instance Guy Mezgar"im sure you know who he is" He's got like 150 or something like that kick boxing fights, and even some amature or non-amature kickboxing title. and the really good grapplers have won some sort or Mahamid suadi arabi(something to do with the mideast) competions like"mark kerr, vitor belt for, the gracies", and Mr. Guapo (my fav) Bas rutten has some king of pancrease titles. You also have to train really really hard, and when you think you're training really hard, you're not becuase you dont know if you're opponent is training harder. If you're really going to think about joining some sort of mma competion join something low, becuase pride and stuff has the best of the best. These just are fighting for Lots of money, the old Pride Grand Prix the winner (mark colemon) was presented like $230,0000. well thats my 2 cents.