2003 in Pride FC

The year 2003 was the 7th year in the history of the Pride Fighting Championships, a mixed martial arts promotion based in Japan. 2003 had 6 events beginning with, Pride 25 - Body Blow.

Debut Pride FC fighters
The following fighters fought their first Pride FC fight in 2003:


 * Alberto Rodriguez
 * Aleksander Emelianenko
 * Chalid Arrab
 * Chris Brennan
 * Dan Bobish
 * Dokonjonosuke Mishima
 * Hayato Sakurai
 * Ikuhisa Minowa


 * Jason Suttie
 * Kazuhiro Hamanaka
 * Kazuhiro Nakamura
 * Maurício Rua
 * Mike Bencic
 * Mikhail Ilyukhin
 * Murilo Bustamante
 * Paulo Cesar Silva


 * Ralph Gracie
 * Rodney Glunder
 * Rodrigo Gracie
 * Rony Sefo
 * Sergei Kharitonov
 * Wataru Sakata
 * Yuki Kondo

Pride 25: Body Blow
Pride 25: Body Blow was an event held on March 16, 2003, at the Yokohama Arena in Yokohama, Japan.

Pride 26: Bad to the Bone
Pride 26: Bad to the Bone was an event held on June 8, 2003, at the Yokohama Arena in Yokohama, Japan.

Pride FC: Total Elimination 2003
Pride FC: Total Elimination 2003 was an event held on August 10, 2003, at the Saitama Super Arena in Saitama, Japan.

Pride FC: Bushido 1
Pride FC: Bushido 1 Is an event held by the Pride Fighting Championships at the Saitama Super Arena in Saitama, Japan on October 5, 2003. The card was billed as Team Japan Vs. Team Gracie, with five bouts featuring a Japanese fighter represented by Hidehiko Yoshida and a member of the Gracie family represented by Royce Gracie. In the main event, Dos Caras, Jr. became the first Hispanic fighter to compete in Pride and the first to wear a lucha libre mask during a bout. He is now better known as WWE pro wrestler Alberto Del Rio.

Pride FC: Final Conflict 2003
Pride FC: Final Conflict 2003 was an event held on November 9, 2003, at the Tokyo Dome in Tokyo, Japan. This event was host to the semi-finals and finals of the 2003 Pride Middleweight Grand Prix tournament. The first round of the tournament was contested at the Pride: Total Elimination 2003 event the previous August.

Pride FC: Shockwave 2003
Pride FC: Shockwave 2003 was an event held on December 31, 2003, at the Saitama Super Arena in Saitama, Japan.