{"id":438282,"date":"2022-04-01T10:26:46","date_gmt":"2022-04-01T17:26:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=438282"},"modified":"2022-04-01T10:33:23","modified_gmt":"2022-04-01T17:33:23","slug":"john-mccarthy-and-josh-thomson-discuss-how-pride-tried-to-sway-the-odds-in-favor-of-their-favorite-sons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/john-mccarthy-and-josh-thomson-discuss-how-pride-tried-to-sway-the-odds-in-favor-of-their-favorite-sons\/","title":{"rendered":"John McCarthy and Josh Thomson discuss how PRIDE tried to sway the odds in favor of their favorite sons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John McCarthy and Josh Thomson discussed how PRIDE tried to sway the odds in favor of their favorite sons.<\/p>\n<p>PRIDE Fighting Championships began as a Japanese MMA promotion company. Its inaugural event was held at the Tokyo Dome on October 11, 1997. Arguably PRIDE was the most popular MMA promotion during the early 2000&#8217;s. PRIDE over the years, held more than sixty mixed martial arts events, broadcast to an estimated 40 countries worldwide.<\/p>\n<p>It was back in March 2007 where Dream Stage Entertainment (DSE) sold PRIDE to Lorenzo and Frank Fertitta III, co-owners of Zuffa, who owned the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) at the time. The rest is history.<\/p>\n<p>During their most recent episode of the &#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/c\/weighingin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Weighing In<\/a>&#8216; podcast, Josh Thompson and John McCarthy discussed PRIDE and how the organization conducted itself during it&#8217;s tenure.<\/p>\n<p>Josh commented:<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;If you guys listen to any former fighters that fought over in PRIDE, there was some legit, f**king foolery going on over there.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Thomson went on to relay his own experience commenting on the disorganization associated with who he&#8217;d been told he would fight, then cancelled due to injury, on-again, off-again, different fighters, etc. All that being said it ended up he had to take a last minute flight to Japan to fight the original fighter he was scheduled to match-up with, who arguably wasn&#8217;t hurt in the first place.<\/p>\n<p>John McCarthy weighed in saying:<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;I would tell guys going over there all the time, hey, watch for this, watch for this, don&#8217;t do this, don&#8217;t do this, when they try to do this &#8211; tell them no, I need this. Fighters were saying I&#8217;ll go over there and I&#8217;ll put up with that crap and stuff. At the time people were making more money in PRIDE. It was a grand show and people wanted to be in it.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Continuing &#8216;Big John&#8217; said:<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;They did a lot of underhanded stuff trying to sway the odds towards their favorite sons.&#8221;\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Josh acknowledged the <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/curtis-blaydes\/ufc-columbus-bonus-report-curtis-blaydes-one-of-four-potn-winners\/\">$$$<\/a> saying:<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;The one fight I had (with PRIDE), I made more money in that fight than I did in all my previous 3 UFC fights. It&#8217;s cash. It&#8217;s all cash &#8211; cash in hand.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>What do you think of the comments made by Josh Thomson and John McCarthy regarding PRIDE FC?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John McCarthy and Josh Thomson discussed how PRIDE tried to sway the odds in favor of their favorite sons. PRIDE Fighting Championships began as a Japanese MMA promotion company. Its inaugural event was held at the Tokyo Dome on October 11, 1997. Arguably PRIDE was the most popular MMA promotion during the early 2000&#8217;s. 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