August 28, 2002 – Stephen Quadros and Bas Rutten at the height of their collaborative powers, opening the pay-per-view broadcast of the 2002 “Shockwave” show (known in Japan as “Dynamite”), with special guest Bill Goldberg. This was the only time that all three Japanese martial arts superpowers of the era, K-1, Pride and Antonio Inoki, shared top billing and co-promoted a major event together. The result: an estimated 91000 people attended the event at Japan National Stadium. Bouts featured (then) PRIDE FC heavyweight champion Antonio Rodrigo “Minotauro” Nogueira, 4-Time K-1 champion Ernesto Hoost, Pride FC middleweight champion Wanderlei Silva, Japanese superstar Kazushi Sakuraba, 3-Time UFC champion Royce Gracie, Bob Sapp, 2-Time UFC champion Don Frye, 3-Time King of Pancrase and future K-1 legend Semmy Schilt, Mirko “Cro Cop” Filipovic and many more. K-1 chairman Kazuyoshi Ishii, Jiu Jitsu icon Helio Gracie and the man who fought Muhammed Ali, Japan’s most enduring pro wrestler, Antonio Inoki at various moments presided over the extravaganza.
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Bas and Stephen really needs to hook it up again!
Before K-1 and Pride combined to form DREAM, they formed this!
I mIss stephen and bas rutten in pride =(
old times…
true classics,love the shirts
this show actually drew 91,000!
oh god. these 2 together were so amazing. were are the times!
lol first of all, wats with the commentator’s shirts? lmao
Bas is as good as a commenter as he was as a fighter.
stephen quadros, you are the man of mma commentating.
Rutten and Quadros were definitely the best mma commentators, in my opinion a lot better than joe rogan and mike goldberg.
hell yeah, Big Nog rocks!
The Fight Professor delivers yet again!
I’m only sad i never got to see this event when it happened. I’ve caught some of the fights here on youtube. What an amazing card it was culminating in an amazing main event between Cro Cop and Mr. Sakuraba.
dude yes! 70,000 people! All there to honor MMA! Beautiful! Thanks for linking me to this video Stephen. Made my morning bro.
this was a great day fo the sport of MMA! at the time it was the best card in the history of MMA.
-Todd
Tanks Bro for remember me, a big abrazo, from your home GUATEMALA.
ha ha ha ha my inglish to bad ha ha ha
Alejandro RodrÃguez
Id wished the three would allow some sort of region 1 dvd release.
So true, this was the first Pride event I watched.
the good old days of pride!!!!
I still remember this is one awesome event!More power to the “Fight Professor”!
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