I agree with a lot of your ideas, tournaments are my absolute favourite and I would like to see Pride keep its historic rules. Moving all of the LW's to Pride is a little overkill in my opinion, Japanese LW's and North American LW's have a different fighting style. The Japanese are more adept at the ground game while North American fighters are springing up left and right with all kinds of strengths.
More MMA on public television would be awesome, maybe one day the sport will evolve so we will be able to have some sort of weekly show rather than patiently waiting for our MMA fixes from a monthly PPV.
My biggest suggestion would be to leave Pride exactly the way it was. Pride is and always has been a far superior organization having better cards and venues. Dana is slowly sucking the life out of Pride to promote his "baby" which he calls the UFC. The repercussions will not have much effect on Zuffa, they already make their millions through the UFC and they will continue to do so by taking the top talent out of Pride. The ones who are going to pay for the mistakes of Zuffa are us fans who realize that the UFC is not the only MMA promotion in the world nor is it the best.
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