- Saturday 11.03.2001
- U.S. Broadcast: Pay Per View
- Promotion: Pride FC
- Ownership: Dream Stage Entertainment (DSE)
- Venue: Tokyo Dome
- Location: Tokyo, Japan
- Enclosure: Ring
- TV Announcers: Stephen Quadros, Bas Rutten
- Attendance: 53,246
- MMA Bouts: 9
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Fight Card
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Pride FC Vacant Middleweight Championship
KO/TKO, Doctor Stoppage
10:00 Round 1 of 39Main Event
205
10 + 5 + 5 Three Rounds | Pro -
Pride FC Vacant Heavyweight Championship
Decision, Unanimous
3 Rounds, 20:00 Total8Main Card
265
10 + 5 + 5 Three Rounds | Pro
Cancelled & Fizzled Bouts
Referees
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Yuji Shimada
Silva vs. Sakuraba II (9), Nogueira vs. Herring I (8) -
Daisuke Noguchi
Erikson vs. Skelton (6), Henderson vs. Rua (3), Gracie vs. Ohara (1) -
Keiji Shiozaki
Sperry vs. Vovchanchyn (5), Schilt vs. Satake (4), Jackson vs. Ishikawa (2)
Wiki
Pride 17 Wiki
In what was probably the best fight card the promotion had put on to date, Pride 17 featured the crowning of the first two Pride FC champions, as Wanderlei Silva won the first-ever Middleweight Championship by finishing Kazushi Sakuraba for a second time, while Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira defeated Heath Herring for the Heavyweight Championship.