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List of Pride Fighting Championships champions

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Below is a list of Pride Fighting Championships champions and title defenses:

World champions

Heavyweight Championship

:Weight limit: Over 93 kg

No.	Name	Event
Brazil Antônio Rodrigo Nogueira
def. Heath Herring	Pride 17
Tokyo, Japan	Nov 3, 2001	days
Russia Fedor Emelianenko	Pride 25
Yokohama, Japan	Mar 16, 2003	days
Brazil Antônio Rodrigo Nogueira
def. Mirko Cro Cop for interim title	Pride Final Conflict 2003
Tokyo, Japan	Nov 9, 2003	-

Middleweight Championship

:Weight limit: 83 kg to 93 kg

No.	Name	Event	Date	Reign	Defenses	1	2	The Pride World Middleweight Title was unified with the UFC Light Heavyweight Championship on September 8, 2007 when Quinton Jackson defeated Dan Henderson at UFC 75.{{cite web
Brazil Wanderlei Silva
def. Kazushi Sakuraba	Pride 17
Tokyo, Japan	Nov 3, 2001	days
USA Dan Henderson	Pride 33
Las Vegas, NV, U.S.	Feb 24, 2007	days
url = http://www.ufc.com/index.cfm?fa=news.detail&gid=7748	author = UFC	title = "UFC 75" on Spike TV is the most watched UFC event in history	date = September 11, 2007	accessdate = 2008-02-05	quote = Dana White: "Not only did UFC 75 showcase the bout that unified the 205 lb Pride and UFC titles..."	url-status = dead	archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20080209201530/http://www.ufc.com/index.cfm?fa=news.detail&gid=7748	archivedate = February 9, 2008

Welterweight Championship

:Weight limit: 73 kg to 83 kg

No.	Name	Event
USA Dan Henderson
def. Murilo Bustamante	Pride Shockwave 2005
Saitama, Japan	Dec 31, 2005	days

Lightweight Championship

:Weight limit: Below 73 kg

No.	Name	Event
Japan Takanori Gomi
def. Hayato Sakurai	Pride Shockwave 2005
Saitama, Japan	Dec 31, 2005	days

Grand Prix Winners

An asterisk () indicates that the tournament was also a title fight.*

Event	Division	Winner	Runner-up
Pride Grand Prix 2000 Finals	Pride Total Elimination 2003
Pride Final Conflict 2003	Pride Total Elimination 2004
Pride Critical Countdown 2004
Pride Final Conflict 2004
Pride Shockwave 2004	Pride Total Elimination 2005
Pride Critical Countdown 2005
Pride Final Conflict 2005	Pride Bushido 9
Pride Shockwave 2005	Pride Total Elimination Absolute
Pride Critical Countdown Absolute
Pride Final Conflict Absolute	Pride Bushido 11
Pride Bushido 12
Pride Bushido 13
Openweight	USA Mark Coleman	UKR Igor Vovchanchyn	May 1, 2000
Middleweight	BRA Wanderlei Silva	USA Quinton Jackson	November 9, 2003
Heavyweight	RUS Fedor Emelianenko *	BRA Antônio Rodrigo Nogueira	December 31, 2004
Middleweight	BRA Mauricio Rua	BRA Ricardo Arona	August 28, 2005
Welterweight	USA Dan Henderson *	BRA Murilo Bustamante	December 31, 2005
Lightweight	JPN Takanori Gomi *	JPN Hayato Sakurai
Openweight	CRO Mirko Filipović	USA Josh Barnett	September 10, 2006
Welterweight	JPN Kazuo Misaki	CAN Denis Kang	November 5, 2006

Records

Most wins in title bouts

Victories	Champion	Division	V	D	NC
BRA Wanderlei Silva	Middleweight	5	0	0	1
RUS Fedor Emelianenko	Heavyweight	4	0	0	0
BRA Antônio Rodrigo Nogueira	Heavyweight	2	0	0	2
JPN Takanori Gomi	Lightweight	2	0	0	0
USA Dan Henderson	Middleweight
Welterweight	1
1	0
0	0
0	0
0

Most consecutive title defenses

Defenses	Champion	Division
BRA Wanderlei Silva	Middleweight	November 3, 2001 – February 24, 2007
RUS Fedor Emelianenko	Heavyweight	March 16, 2003 – October 4, 2007
JPN Takanori Gomi	Lightweight	December 31, 2005 – October 4, 2007

Multi-division champions

	Interim title

No.	Champion	Division	Won
USA Dan Henderson	Middleweight	February 24, 2007
(Pride 33)	September 8, 2007
(UFC 75)	0	days	987 days
Welterweight	December 31, 2005
(Pride Shockwave 2005)	March 1, 2008
(UFC 82)	0	days

Simultaneous two division champions

This table, different from the previous one, only counts the periods in which the fighter loaded the titles simultaneously and the defenses in that period of time.

No.	Champion	Division	Span	Defenses	Simultaneous Reign	1
USA Dan Henderson	Middleweight	February 24, 2007 – September 8, 2007	0	days
Welterweight	0

Champions by nationality

The division champions include only linear and true champions. Interim champions who have never become linear champions will be listed as interim champions. Fighters with multiple title reigns in a specific division will also be counted once. Runners-up are not included in tournaments champions.

Country	Division
champions	Interim
champions	Tournaments
champions	Total
	2	1	2	4
	2	-	2	4
	1	-	2	3
	1	-	1	2
	-	-	1	1

References

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