Fight Archives: Cristiano Marcello vs. Charles Bennett

Whenever scuffles break out outside the ring or cage, it is expected that bystanders or authority figures will step in to stop the melee. But there was one point during Pride FC’s glory days when two fighters went at it backstage until one of them ended up being choked to sleep.

It all happened at Pride: Shockwave on December 31st 2005 in Saitama, where Charles “Krazy Horse” Bennett fought and won against Japanese actor turned fighter Ken Kaneko. Kaneko was cornered by Cristiano Marcello, who at the time, was affiliated with Chute Boxe Academy.

As Marcello himself had claimed in a 2010 interview, he went on to challenge Krazy Horse after the fight inside the locker room that the two opposing…