text: I have already answered a question similar to this one but here's my opinion once again.\n\nGenerally speaking I believe that PRIDE has the best MMA competitors in the world. The main reason for that is quite simple. They are by far the highest paying MMA organization today and all the top fighters want to work there. \n\nAnd as far as weight divisions individually are concerned situation looks more less like this:\n\nUFC heavyweights are nowhere near PRIDE level. With fighters like Fedor Emelianenko, Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira, Mirko CRO COP Filipovic, Sergei Kharitonov, Josh Barnett, Aleksander Emelianenko, Fabricio Werdum, Mark Hunt and so on PRIDE is completely dominant in this division. UFC's best Tim Sylvia and Andrei Arlovski wouldn't even make top 8 in PRIDE.\n\nPRIDE is also dominant in LHW division with Wanderlei Silva, Mauricio SHOGUN Rua, Ricardo Arona, Hidehiko Yoshida, Antonio Rogerio Nogueira, Alister Overeem all there (their only big minus was the recent loss of Quinton RAMPAGE Jackson who signed for WFA). UFC, now that Randy Couture is retired, really only has two top level fighters in that weight class - Tito Ortiz and Chuck Liddell. Sobral, Bonar and Griffin are good fighters but they're not on the level of PRIDE's best.\n\nMiddleweight division is at the moment about even in PRIDE and UFC but there are really only two kings in this weight class and the rest of the competition is not on their level. They are of course Rich Franklin and Dan Henderson and that would be a dream match.\n\nWelter weight division (-170 lbs) PRIDE doesn't have (well they call -185 lbs division welter) but Matt Hughes is the undisputed champion and the best fighter in the world in that class and UFC's fighters are best there, no question about that.\n\nLightweights are without doubt better in PRIDE with Takanori Gomi, Tatsuya Kawajiri, Hayato Sakurai, Joachim Hansen, Luiz Azeredo and so on all there.\n\nSo I agree with you, PRIDE is better then UFC.