Below is a list of Pride Fighting Championships champions and title defenses:
Weight limit: Over 93kg (205lb)
| width=1% | No. | width=21% | Name | width=15% | Event | width=15% | Date | width=8% | Reign | width=48% | Defenses |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | align=left | align=center | Pride 17 | align=center | Nov 3, 2001 | align=center | days | ||||
| 2 | align=left | Fedor Emelianenko | align=center | Pride 25 | align=center | Mar 16, 2003 | align=center | days | |||
| - | align=left |  Antônio Rodrigo Nogueira | align=center | align=center | Nov 9, 2003 | align=center | - |
Weight limit: 83kg (183lb) to 93kg (205lb)
| width=1% | No. | width=21% | Name | width=15% | Event | width=15% | Date | width=8% | Reign | width=48% | Defenses |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | align=left | Wanderlei Silva | align=center | Pride 17 | align=center | Nov 3, 2001 | align=center | days | |||
| 2 | align=left | align=center | Pride 33 | align=center | Feb 24, 2007 | align=center | days | ||||
| align=center colspan=6 | 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.[1] |
Weight limit: 731NaN1 to 83kg (183lb)
| width=1% | No. | width=21% | Name | width=15% | Event | width=15% | Date | width=8% | Reign | width=48% | Defenses |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | align=left |  Dan Henderson | align=center | align=center | Dec 31, 2005 | align=center | days | ||||
| align=center colspan=6 | The Pride World Welterweight Title was unified with the UFC Middleweight Championship on March 1, 2008 when Anderson Silva defeated Dan Henderson at UFC 82. |
Weight limit: Below 731NaN1
| width=1% | No. | width=21% | Name | width=15% | Event | width=15% | Date | width=8% | Reign | width=48% | Defenses |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | align=left | align=center | align=center | Dec 31, 2005 | align=center | days | |||||
An asterisk (*) indicates that the tournament was also a title fight.
| Event | Division | Winner | Runner-up | Final | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pride Grand Prix 2000 Opening Round Pride Grand Prix 2000 Finals | Openweight | Mark Coleman |  Igor Vovchanchyn | May 1, 2000 | |
| Pride Total Elimination 2003 Pride Final Conflict 2003 | Middleweight | Wanderlei Silva | Quinton Jackson | November 9, 2003 | |
| Pride Total Elimination 2004 Pride Critical Countdown 2004 Pride Final Conflict 2004 Pride Shockwave 2004 | Heavyweight |  Fedor Emelianenko * | Antônio Rodrigo Nogueira | December 31, 2004 | |
| Pride Total Elimination 2005 Pride Critical Countdown 2005 Pride Final Conflict 2005 | Middleweight | Mauricio Rua | Ricardo Arona | August 28, 2005 | |
| Pride Bushido 9 Pride Shockwave 2005 | Welterweight | Dan Henderson * | align=center rowspan="2" | December 31, 2005 | |
| Lightweight |  Takanori Gomi * | Hayato Sakurai | |||
| Pride Total Elimination Absolute Pride Critical Countdown Absolute Pride Final Conflict Absolute | Openweight | Mirko Filipović | September 10, 2006 | ||
| Pride Bushido 11 Pride Bushido 12 Pride Bushido 13 | Welterweight | Kazuo Misaki | November 5, 2006 |
| Victories | Champion | Division | V | D | NC | L |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | Wanderlei Silva | Middleweight | 5 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 4 | Heavyweight | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 2 | Antônio Rodrigo Nogueira | Heavyweight | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Takanori Gomi | Lightweight | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Dan Henderson | Middleweight Welterweight | 1 1 | 0 0 | 0 0 | 0 0 |
| Defenses | Champion | Division | Period | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | Wanderlei Silva | Middleweight | November 3, 2001 – February 24, 2007 | |
| 3 | Fedor Emelianenko | Heavyweight | March 16, 2003 – October 4, 2007 | |
| 1 | Takanori Gomi | Lightweight | December 31, 2005 – October 4, 2007 |
| Interim title |
| No. | Champion | Division | Won | Lost | Defenses | Reign | Total reign | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | align=left rowspan="2" | align=center | Middleweight | align=center | February 24, 2007 (Pride 33) | align=center | September 8, 2007 (UFC 75) | align=center | 0 | align=center | days | 987 days | |
| align=center | Welterweight | align=center | December 31, 2005 (Pride Shockwave 2005) | align=center | March 1, 2008 (UFC 82) | align=center | 0 | align=center | days |
| No. | Champion | Division | Span | Defenses | Simultaneous Reign | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | align=left rowspan="2" | align=center | Middleweight | align=center rowspan="2" | February 24, 2007 – September 8, 2007 | align=center | 0 | align=center rowspan="2" | days | |
| align=center | Welterweight | align=center | 0 |
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 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| align=left | align=center | 2 | align=center | 1 | align=center | 2 | align=center | 4 | ||
| align=left | align=center | 2 | align=center | - | align=center | 2 | align=center | 4 | ||
| align=left | align=center | 1 | align=center | - | align=center | 2 | align=center | 3 | ||
| align=left | align=center | 1 | align=center | - | align=center | 1 | align=center | 2 | ||
| align=left | align=center | - | align=center | - | align=center | 1 | align=center | 1 |