MMA First Impressions

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What are some strange first impressions you had when you first began watching MMA?

For example, when I first saw the documentary Smashing Machine I remember thinking "the main guy" (Mark Kerr) got beaten up by a little chubby guy (Igor Vovchanchyn) and that Marks trainer looked like he was a better fighter and I wondered why he didn't compete, that was Bas Rutten.

I also remember thinking Drew McFredries was terrifying, killing machine.
 
What are some strange first impressions you had when you first began watching MMA?

For example, when I first saw the documentary Smashing Machine I remember thinking "the main guy" (Mark Kerr) got beaten up by a little chubby guy (Igor Vovchanchyn) and that Marks trainer looked like he was a better fighter and I wondered why he didn't compete, that was Bas Rutten.

I also remember thinking Drew McFredries was terrifying, killing machine.

Igor's hands were crazy.

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Poor Francisco Bueno...

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"That fat Russian dude doesn't look so tough, he doesn't even make eye contact - must be shy"

Fast forward five minutes into his first fight with Nog...

"Holy shit is that murder!?"
 
I swear the only thing keeping Bueno up was Igor's rage.
 
In UFC 48 I saw an armbar tutorial and thought pfft that homo shit would never work in a real scrap. The next fight immediately after that was Mir/Sylvia and boy was I wrong haha.
 
I actually did watch my first UFC, UFC 1 around the time UFC 4 was on PPV (obviously nobody here will believe me since 0 people watched UFC 1 until years later by Sherdog logic) The one thing that stuck with me was that kick to the face by Gordeau on the fat guy. I remembered thinking people would die in this sport, I was pretty much wrong.
 
I remember seeing Tito KO Tanner with that brutal slam and thinking "no one's ever going to beat that guy."
 
This GSP guy blows ... Actually that belief never changed, jaja.

 
2009: "This Nick Diaz guy is a total dick. Why slap away Scott Smith's hand like that when he's trying to touch gloves?"

2010:
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I was really into Bruce Lee and Kung Fu, took Wing Chun lessons from this dude in the Boston area. Knew a little about UFC from Ken Shamrock and Dan Severn in the mid 90s WWF, but didn't know much about the sport or how to even watch it, but I was always taught that Wing Chun would defeat any opponent and he'd always show me videos of this dude Emin Boztepe just beating the crap out of his training partners and making it look easy.

Then they started showing K-1 and ISKA at like 1 -2 in the morning on ESPN 2 around 1999-2000, and seeing these real strikers made me question what I knew, so I googled that and found Bullshido, then this small website called "Sherdog" which had some videos of this Brazilian monster committing genocide against Japanese people in a ring. Long story short, Wanderlei taught me that traditional martial arts are mostly bullshit. From there I found Royce, Fedor and the rest is history.
 
What are some strange first impressions you had when you first began watching MMA?

For example, when I first saw the documentary Smashing Machine I remember thinking "the main guy" (Mark Kerr) got beaten up by a little chubby guy (Igor Vovchanchyn) and that Marks trainer looked like he was a better fighter and I wondered why he didn't compete, that was Bas Rutten.

I also remember thinking Drew McFredries was terrifying, killing machine.

Thinking Chuck was god

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I thought it was cool but that it would never last much like the amazing Battlebots.
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I thought it looked similar to gay porn but with a different ending.
 
I came from watching WWE ( = guys stomping each others faces, flying kees to heads, slams left and right, the craziest "submissions"...) so the first thing i thought was: "Wtf, this shit is boring. They hardly ever land, theyre just dancing aroung and there's a terrible lack of signature moves and finishers."
 
I thought it was going to be way too violent for me.
 
I actually did watch my first UFC, UFC 1 around the time UFC 4 was on PPV (obviously nobody here will believe me since 0 people watched UFC 1 until years later by Sherdog logic) The one thing that stuck with me was that kick to the face by Gordeau on the fat guy. I remembered thinking people would die in this sport, I was pretty much wrong.
I believe that's a nice ass in your AV
 
That chubby little russian dude is gonna get rekt. fast forward to Herring trying to climb out of the ring to avoid more punishment. HOLY FUCK
 
First time watching Wanderlei knee and stomp faces:

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I actually did watch my first UFC, UFC 1 around the time UFC 4 was on PPV (obviously nobody here will believe me since 0 people watched UFC 1 until years later by Sherdog logic) The one thing that stuck with me was that kick to the face by Gordeau on the fat guy. I remembered thinking people would die in this sport, I was pretty much wrong.

I watched UFC 1 on ppv. But like you said, nobody will believe you. Oh and that kick was awesome. That's what made me like mma. Royce almost killed it for me though
 
"Damn, This is brutal! I wish Vitor had won"

(Vitor was everywhere (t shirts, notebooks, stickers...) when he was the brand star from Bad Boy)
 
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