PRIDE's <strike>final</strike> event in Las Vegas, Nevada, might've been the best PPV card of 2007. On it we saw Dan Henderson brawl with Wanderlei Silva for three rounds and eventually score a surprise knockout of the Axe Murderer. On the same card Nick Diaz submitted Gomi with the elusive gogoplata, Shogun knocked out kickboxing warrior Alistair Overeem, Mach Sakurai TKO'd The Ultimate Fighter's Mac Danzig, Sokoudjou stopped Little Nog in under 30 seconds, and <strike>everyone bid farewell to the venerable Japanese federation forever</strike>. The UFC held an amazing 19 events in 2007, in addition to two reality television series, with half of their big events on free TV, but I don't think any one event comes close to what PRIDE left us with in February. Any arguments? <span style="color:blue">edit: it was their last event for US fans, with one more event in Japan in April</span>
I think it was probably the best card. It wasn't the last though. They still had one on April that was kinda a dud. their New Year's Shockwave card was extremely good too. UFC doesn't stack their cards top to bottom like they once did and it's a shame. They've gone the way of boxing and give you 2-3 really good matches and some potentially good matches and a few duds. when one or two of the good matches fizzle the whole card does.
