Kind of hard to judge that when the weight classes don't match up.

Pride
Heavyweight: >205
Middleweight: <205
Welterweight: <183
Lightweight: <160

UFC
Heavyweight: 206-265
Light Heavyweight: 186-205
Middleweight: 171-185
Welterweight: 156-170
Lightweight: 146-155

The only class that matches up is the heavyweights, in which I do agree that PRIDE has the better fighters. But if you went by the UFC weight standards I think that the LHW is debatable but leans toward PRIDE. MW would go to UFC with Franklin knocking out Henderson. WW is hard to say bc nobody really fights at that weight in PRIDE. Technically Gomi would be a WW and would get his ass kicked by Hughes or GSP. If he dropped to LW then he would pound the shit out of the UFC fighters though. And the LW division in the UFC is coming back pretty fast.

Yeah I was shocked at how many fighters dropped to lightweight when they opened up the class in the UFC. The lightweight fights are very entertaining because most of them aren't powerful enough to do huge damage so you actually get to see them knock eachother around.

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I dont see hendo getting ko'd by franklin at all, that fight would go to a decision, or a ko by hendo. Not saying franklin couldnt win the fight, but it would be by decision. WW is the class where the ufc has it, but there really isnt a ww class in pride mw=lhw and ww=mw.