[KDawg]

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but it seems like maybe they are retiring the Pride titles altogether.

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yup, PRIDE is completely dead at this point. White did try to keep it going, but in Japan, they don't really want foriegners running things, and w/o TV in Japan all you would be doing is wasting money to put on a product.

PRIDE's biggest problem was when the Yakuza stuff came out . While it's known that the Yakuza have a hand in almost everything major in Japan, it just isn't acknowledged publicly. WHen it does get out in the public like that, you can pretty much sign the death card right there. Even under different ownership, there is still the taint on the company from that Scandal