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What's the first MMA event you ever watched?
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07.14.2012 | 4:28 PM ET
For me it was UFC 65, I remember seeing Jeff Monson and thinking he was going to murder Sylvia (for real), knowing nothing about MMA I was conviced just by the looks of the guy he was the greatest fighter of all time and anyone who stepped into the cage with him had to be out of their mind. Well the fight was pretty boring to me, Monson got owned, and I learned that looking like a guy who just shived his cellmate means absolutely nothing in the octagon. The next fight was the reason we bought the PPV, to see a Canadian fighter get a shot at the Champion, GSP vs. Matt Hughes, and it did not disapoint. GSP finnished Hughes in the second round to become the new UFC Welterweight champion and I was hooked. I havn't missed a PPV since, with a few exceptions, but that moment was the begining of my love affair with what now is my favorite sport.
Just interested to see if other people on this sites remember their's.
"He told me he was going to **** me, but was disappointed in himself when he could not get hard."
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07.14.2012 | 5:39 PM ET
"get outta my face man! i gotta go get drunk"-Rampage
07.14.2012 | 5:46 PM ET
"'I'm going to beat you to a living death." -Ken Shamrock on Tito"
07.14.2012 | 5:57 PM ET
"This will teach those filthy bastards who's lovable!" - Bender
07.14.2012 | 6:27 PM ET
07.14.2012 | 6:45 PM ET
07.14.2012 | 7:00 PM ET
First full event I watched I think was TUF 10 Finale where Jones ****** up Hammil and Roy Nelson won the finals. OH yeah and we got this amazing fight...
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"I bought a Bruno mars cd once - gunn4206"
07.14.2012 | 7:24 PM ET
the very first PPV they had and i was living in lakewood washington state.
07.14.2012 | 8:14 PM ET
"I Stab Waterbeds!"
07.14.2012 | 9:10 PM ET
"Sure the fight was fixed. I fixed it with a right hand. - George Foreman"
07.15.2012 | 2:50 AM ET
"The only way to guarantee failure is by giving up" Frank Mir
07.15.2012 | 3:00 AM ET
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"RIP Bill Burgess , RIP CthuluJones"
07.15.2012 | 9:59 AM ET
Then I saw how bloody Oleg Taktarov got and I realized this **** was actually real. Oh, and Gracie/Shamrock 2 didn't exactly turn me onto the sport either. I didn't watch another MMA event until I was 21.
Since growing up, the first event I watched was Elite XC: Primetime. AKA, the show where the referee stopped the fight the instant Kimbo Slice was winning it. How I stayed a fan after that, I'll never know, but I'm glad I did!
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"I can't think of anything witty to say at the moment..."
07.15.2012 | 10:32 AM ET
"Whoa, whoa, whoa! There's still plenty of meat on that bone. Now, you take this home, throw it in a pot, add some broth, a potato...baby, you got a stew goin'!"
07.15.2012 | 10:32 AM ET
Straight from my Tapology profile:The first fight I watched was a re-run of Royce Gracie vs. Matt Hughes,My dad explained how Royce had his reign of dominance and used BJJ to beat people twice his size.I was hooked and soon I watched tons of old fights from the UFC and Pride and developed and understanding of the sport and the fighters.My first PPV was UFC 100 and I followed the sport from that day forward.
07.15.2012 | 11:14 AM ET
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07.15.2012 | 1:14 PM ET
First event I watched while it was happening live was UFC 116.
First full event I watched (prelims and all) was UFC 124.
I really started becoming obsessed with the UFC with TUF 12.
"الله أكبرl"
07.15.2012 | 1:45 PM ET
"I'd like to take this chance, to appologize. To absolutely nobody. -Connor McGreGOAT"
07.15.2012 | 2:19 PM ET
I'm not sure what the first fight I ever saw was, maybe Anderson vs Rich Frankin or Forrest? It was all precipitated by buying UFC Undisputed 2009, prior to that I had no knowledge of MMA, but as soon as I bought that I got very interested and started researching and watching MMA, old and new.
I watched UFC 1 and 4 and 8 and so on in their entirety online, and that really gave me an appreciation for how much things have changed in such a relatively short period of time, and how many common ideas about toughness are false, like huge muscular guys being the toughest, scariest people in a fight.
Most of those websites I used to watch full old events on have been taken down sadly, and I sometimes ask myself if I could become a fan now with the current availability of stuff online. I don't think Zuffa is doing itself a favour by taking everything down with their army of lawyers, anyway I digress. I have been watching pretty religiously ever since UFC116.
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07.15.2012 | 2:29 PM ET
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07.15.2012 | 5:10 PM ET