Favorite MMA event

[Adonis]

I like both events even though I voted for pride.

I like both I think pride has good heavy weight division. Heavy weights in UFC isn't that deep at all. Arlovski is great!, but I rather seem him fight higher caliber fighters.

Light heavy in UFC is good with, bonnar, griffen, chuck liddel, courture, and horn and many others.

Pride as equal good division such as silva, rampage, Ninja and shogun rua, arona and others.

Pride doesn't have welter weight division and UFC's welter waits are stacked with good fighters.

UFC got rid of the light weight division so that is why I like pride also.

I like both events, they both have crappy events like the last pride, or good events. So it depends.

[SubGrappler]

PRIDE = Better fighters and better cards. Why because they pay their fighters millions where the UFC has been known to pay $500.00. The money attracts the best from all over.

The only people I've seen from Pride get paid in the millions (or close to it) are the Gracies- particularly Rickson and Royce (due to his fame from early UFC).

I also do not think the UFC pays fighters that little, not for actual events anyways (Im talking about actual PPV events, not TUF finales).

Overall, the last time I checked up on fighters salaries, it went something like this:

UFC:

for your first 3 fights in UFC, fighters salaries averaged between $3000 and $5000

Well known fighters, such as Carlos Newton, Robbie Lawler, and Evan Tanner (and any others in that group) can make anywhere between $40,000- $80,000 a fight.

Champions such as Randy Couture and Tito Ortiz made somewhere between $120,000 and $150,000 with win bonuses as high as $80,000

Pride:

First couple of fights, fighters averaged $20,000

Champions such as Silva and such made as much as $200,000 a fight.

I may be a bit off, its been awhile since I checked up on it, but I believe the numbers to be about right. The UFC can almost offer as much cash to its champions as Pride can, but due to the overwhelming popularity of MMA in Japan vs USA, Pride has a LOT more money to throw around and can afford to have an entire card of higher quality fighters, whereas UFC would most likely never be able to afford to pay all their top fighters for one event. Pride also has a chance of putting together your dream matches of the old school fighters, because they can dish out almost $500,000 for Royce Gracie to fight (whereas thats about the total paycheck for a UFC event)

[Adonis]

subgrappler choked out the correct