‘Crazy Pride Lady’ act was born out of boredom
Nicknamed “Crazy Pride Lady” or “Screaming Crazy Lady,” Alaska-born Lenne Hardt has built a cult following with her incomparable introductions,…
Nicknamed “Crazy Pride Lady” or “Screaming Crazy Lady,” Alaska-born Lenne Hardt has built a cult following with her incomparable introductions, starting with Pride GP events in 2000.
“To tell you the truth, I got bored because I didn’t know what was going on,” Hardt said Thursday on MMAFighting.com’s The MMA Hour. “There’s a lot of time in between [matches]. You don’t really know what was happening so you’re just there twiddling your thumbs. And I thought, I want to participate in this. I want to understand it.”
“That’s when I started working on the calls themselves, these people’s names, to build up the excitement, and hype and tension.”
“I was under the impression it was a one-off. They liked it and they asked me back and one day became 12 years.”
Hardt continued to work for Pride until the company was sold to the UFC in 2007. Dream, an unofficial reboot of Pride, was launched the following year and Hardt reunited with her former Pride execs and production team.
