Bloody Elbow has obtained two key sections of the UFC’s PRIDE background checks, and one is on current Rizin Fighting Federation CEO Nobuyuki Sakakibara.
How did you feel back in March 2007 when the UFC bought PRIDE? How about a few months later when it shut PRIDE down? While everyone misses PRIDE events themselves, opinions on the UFC's purchase sometimes vary depending on what people know and who they believe.
We know from Sherdog and FightOpinion articles that the UFC claimed the refusal of former PRIDE key personnel to cooperate with reasonable background checks, and sometimes their obstruction of such checks, necessitated a Notice of Breach issued on Aug.