Tapology Forums
when did you start watching UFC/MMA?
Anonymous Mode
You are not logged in to Tapology. When browsing anonymously, profanities and images are automatically removed from the forum.
-
- rappinpapsoda
-
- Location: Midwest
- Member Since: 2013.07.05
-
Predictions:
71,544
|
59.8%
-
Forum Posts:
8,603
- Post Score: 69
I just realised that I started 18 years ago when watching UFC 6 on vhs. What year did you start and what event was it?
-
- sreimuth
-
- Location: New York
- Member Since: 2011.02.23
-
Predictions:
79,892
|
63.9%
-
Forum Posts:
4,245
- Post Score: 262
UFC 95 at 16 years old. Before I was watching MMA I was sniffing coke and ******* prostitutes. I don't know why I didn't start watching earlier. I did Karate as a kid and Judo and Kickboxing in my teens for two years. My first KO and fight was Paulo Thiago over Koscheck, which was a hell of a KO to come into the sport with.
-
- curtwag84
-
- Location: Arizona
- Member Since: 2012.06.25
-
Predictions:
13,940
|
63.9%
-
Forum Posts:
5,695
- Post Score: 273
I started watching around 2007 I remember following Lesnar vs Kim and Liddell vs Rampage fights on Youtube. I dont remember what my first event was but it was probably a free SPIKE card around that time. I started becoming a hardcore fan in 2009 I watched all of TUF Bisping vs Hendo and Torrented UFC 100. Watching Lesnar rag doll Mir and Hendo knock Bisping the **** out made me a big fan and I never looked back. I can thank Tapology for turning me into a more cultured fan. Before I joined this site I just watched UFC and the occasional Bellator and Strikeforce, now I watch a good 6 events a weekend . I love me some MMA
-
- 2 Nyce
-
- Member Since: 2013.02.26
-
Predictions:
19,158
|
59.6%
-
Forum Posts:
2,852
- Post Score: 214
Ufc 12..it's why I like belfort
-
- mmawizzard
-
- Location: idk ask Nomad
- Member Since: 2012.06.22
-
Predictions:
49,823
|
61.5%
-
Forum Posts:
5,249
- Post Score: 146
im 19 now and started watching it in 2008 but didn't get really into it until forrest griffin vs stephan bonnar that'swhen I found out the sport was amazing.
-
- SpiderGuard
-
- Location: Los Angeles
- Member Since: 2011.10.29
-
Predictions:
1,914
|
62.0%
-
Forum Posts:
775
- Post Score: 174
I used to only watch UFC once in a while, like whenever I saw it on spike while flipping channels or I would watch the big fights online. I only became a hardcore fan after I saw watched my first PPV which was UFC 123 Rampage vs Machida at a friends house. Since then I hardly miss a PPV.
-
- OldManGloom
-
- Location: The Mitten
- Member Since: 2011.03.19
-
Predictions:
109,651
|
62.5%
-
Forum Posts:
9,505
- Post Score: 254
For me it was TUF 3 in 2006 and especially the WEC's debut on Versus in 2007 that made me a fan.
-
- flying_frontkick
-
- Location: Canada
- Member Since: 2011.08.14
-
Predictions:
9,765
|
62.4%
-
Forum Posts:
5,793
- Post Score: 273
Been watching it since I saw some previews for UFC 62 - Liddell vs Sobral 2, started downloading the early UFC's and the ultimate submission/KO's watched every event since but I have missed a few live. Would have been 18 in '06, so 8 years a fan. Favorite events ended up becoming the Japanese events that they would hold on new years, Dynamite!! shows with the combination of Dream, Sengoku & k-1 are my favorite events I have watched MMA wise. WEC became a huge favorite, loved watching that and whatever I could stream from HDNet. Cage Rage was another that I would stream a lot.
-
- Gregory
-
- Location: Boston
- Member Since: 2010.05.24
-
Predictions:
6,817
|
63.3%
-
Forum Posts:
18,574
- Post Score: 275
Pride 28 was the first event that I really watched. First fight... Heath Herring vs Hirotaka Yokoi. It was like, holy ****, these guys are really fighting.
-
- rappinpapsoda
-
- Location: Midwest
- Member Since: 2013.07.05
-
Predictions:
71,544
|
59.8%
-
Forum Posts:
8,603
- Post Score: 69
Wow, I feel so old in watching the tournament days and dark days before Zuffa came around.
-
- gunn4206
-
- Location: Sitting Down
- Member Since: 2012.04.21
-
Predictions:
39,963
|
66.2%
-
Forum Posts:
7,834
- Post Score: 249
First event i watched was UFC 50 but only a couple fights . wasn't till UFC 60 till i really got into it that was also the first PPV i bought . Matt Hughes and Tito Ortiz were the guys that got me into the Sport . I've always loved me some wrestlers .
-
- rappinpapsoda
-
- Location: Midwest
- Member Since: 2013.07.05
-
Predictions:
71,544
|
59.8%
-
Forum Posts:
8,603
- Post Score: 69
I remember the days when people would laugh at fighters such as Ranger Stott and Wes Albritton.
-
- JeremyBrigham81
-
- Location: Arkansas
- Member Since: 2013.09.20
-
Predictions:
25,183
|
62.9%
-
Forum Posts:
819
- Post Score: 248
I've been watching since the very first UFC event. Been a hardcore fan since about 99 or 2000
-
- jodybanman
-
- Location: Vancouver, BC, Canada
- Member Since: 2011.09.30
-
Predictions:
3,332
|
61.2%
-
Forum Posts:
1,707
- Post Score: 237
I saw UFC 1 and 2 on a high school wrestling trip in 1995. The guy we were staying with had them on VHS, and I thought it would be fake. I was blown away when in the first moment of the first fight Teila Tuli got his tooth knocked into the audience by Gerard Gordeau. I stopped watching as the sport got taken off PPV but started again after a friend gave me TUF 1. Haven't missed an event since. It's the only sport I really care about.
-
- House Sparrow
-
- Location: Columbus, Ohio
- Member Since: 2013.06.24
-
Predictions:
3,528
|
63.6%
-
Forum Posts:
409
- Post Score: 263
A lot later than you guys, but I started watching around 16 years old because I saw an ad on YouTube for an upcoming UFC PPV. I was bored so I decided to check it out and buy it. UFC 139, still one of my all-time favorite MMA events ever, and here I am today a huge fan of the sport. I also still love Wandy, Faber, Hendo, and Shogun for giving me those first impressions.
-
- skelliher
-
- Location: Boston, MA
- Member Since: 2010.05.24
-
Predictions:
5,670
|
63.4%
-
Forum Posts:
11,051
- Post Score: 245
I believe around 2004. Watched a DvD of Ultimate KOs at my buddy's house. Thought it was nuts and searched Limewire (Yes) for grainy videos of fights. Then started seeing some UFC Unleashed episodes on Spike.
First few fights I can remember seeing were Hughes/Trigg 2, GSP/Mayhem (been a huge fan of his ever since), Stout vs. Fisher 1, Jorge Rivera vs. David Louiseau.
Good times.
First fight I watched the same day it happened was GSP/Hughes 2 in 2006.
-
- Brazilian Jitz
-
- Location: Canada
- Member Since: 2011.10.08
-
Predictions:
3,516
|
61.3%
-
Forum Posts:
6,816
- Post Score: 211
2007, 17 years old. Started hearing bout GSP, and watched GSP/Serra. Then I started doing research and become super intrigued with the legend of Royce Gracie. he's the reason why I got into MMA and started doing BJJ.
-
- amp112
-
- Location: The Town
- Member Since: 2012.10.14
-
Predictions:
37,156
|
62.2%
-
Forum Posts:
5,588
- Post Score: 208
I'm only 24, so no obscure MMA beginnings for me. MMA started with the UFC and took awhile to stick for me. A couple of my friends were talking about this guy named "Chuck Liddell" and how he just won the title (UFC 52). I looked up that fight, fell in love with Chuck and slowly started to get into it, lost interest until the same kind of thing happened with Rampage/Liddell. I would look up the fights on youtube after an event (It was wonderful having them on all youtube).
Bought UFC 2009 for 360, and started looking up all the fighters. Then I found out about PRIDE, Anderson Silva, Shogun and Wanderlei....got sold on MMA and never looked back.
My first card where I watched it in real time was UFC 110 and I haven't missed a card since.
