Best year ever in MMA

[dead joe]

I was just wondering, which year was the most exciting, or represents for you the peak of MMA ? I started following the sport regularly around 2014, but have watched a shitload of fights from before that time, and somehow I get the sense that I arrived just at the end of a "golden age" (circa 2010-2012). Is it just a romanticization of the past from me ? Or maybe some of you guys think that it's always been uphill or downhill since the 90s ?

 

[gono btw]

I was just wondering, which year was the most exciting, or represents for you the peak of MMA ? I started following the sport regularly around 2014, but have watched a shitload of fights from before that time, and somehow I get the sense that I arrived just at the end of a "golden age" (circa 2010-2012). Is it just a romanticization of the past from me ? Or maybe some of you guys think that it's always been uphill or downhill since the 90s ?

either 1998 or 1999 or 2000

> 1999. Rings´ awesome tournaments + Pride´s awesome fights that year

 

[RoyJonesJr]

2015 or 2016

So many good fights those years

 

[Mask Of Winters]

The last two years might be the worst ever TBH.

 

[Gambit MMA]

id say 2009-2013

 

[wilKO]

2019: The last year of MMA.

#ufcisdying

 

[dead joe]

id say 2009-2013

That's the feeling i get as well. Does any one of those five years strike you as especially epic, awesome, unforgettable ?

 

[epic1stpost]

Mid 2000s

 

[Gambit MMA]

That's the feeling i get as well. Does any one of those five years strike you as especially epic, awesome, unforgettable ?

2013 had gus-jones, gsp-hendricks, silva-weidman, aldo-edgar 1, etc.

some big landmark fights

 

[Typrune Goatley]

2003

Fedor vs Nog 1
Nog vs Cro Cop
Randy vs Chuck 1
Randy vs Tito
Hendo vs Busta 1
Sylvia vs Ricco
Fedor vs Fujita
Overeem vs Chuck
Rampage vs Chuck 1
Wanderlei vs Rampage 1
BJ vs Gomi
Gomi vs Hellboy
Igor vs Cro Cop
Carlos Newton vs Renzo Gracie
Carlos Newton vs Anderson Silva

 

[Elysianwing]

'01-'07 were the salad days.

 

[dead joe]

2013 had gus-jones, gsp-hendricks, silva-weidman, aldo-edgar 1, etc.

some big landmark fights

Wait... I started following the UFC way before that then. Ok so I miscalculated, I'm just thinking the golden age is around 2010-2012 because that's when I started getting invested lol. I just checked and realized UFC 141 is from 2011, and that's the first card I remember watching.

 

[dead joe]

2003

Fedor vs Nog 1
Nog vs Cro Cop
Randy vs Chuck 1
Randy vs Tito
Hendo vs Busta 1
Sylvia vs Ricco
Fedor vs Fujita
Overeem vs Chuck
Rampage vs Chuck 1
Wanderlei vs Rampage 1
BJ vs Gomi
Gomi vs Hellboy

You make some good points.

 

[Gambit MMA]

Wait... I started following the UFC way before that then. Ok so I miscalculated, I'm just thinking the golden age is around 2010-2012 because that's when I started getting invested lol. I just checked and realized UFC 141 is from 2011, and that's the first card I remember watching.

yea 141 was lesnar vs overeem right?

 

[YOLOGOGOPLATA]

2003

Fedor vs Nog 1
Nog vs Cro Cop
Randy vs Chuck 1
Randy vs Tito
Hendo vs Busta 1
Sylvia vs Ricco
Fedor vs Fujita
Overeem vs Chuck
Rampage vs Chuck 1
Wanderlei vs Rampage 1
BJ vs Gomi
Gomi vs Hellboy

I hate that I became a fan after the Pride era. I've gone back and watched tons of stuff but it's just not the same as experiencing it live (plus any one who was a fan back then seems to prefer Pride to present day UFC). This list has a couple fights I haven't watched, about to check them out now!

 

[kerykda]

2007 ufc 75 in london, rampage unifid the pride and ufc belts

 

[007]

2003

Fedor vs Nog 1
Nog vs Cro Cop
Randy vs Chuck 1
Randy vs Tito
Hendo vs Busta 1
Sylvia vs Ricco
Fedor vs Fujita
Overeem vs Chuck
Rampage vs Chuck 1
Wanderlei vs Rampage 1
BJ vs Gomi
Gomi vs Hellboy

Good old days

 

[dead joe]

yea 141 was lesnar vs overeem right?

yep, that's the one.

 

[Bob Sagat]

whatever year PRIDE was at it's peak was the best year of MMA

 

[pick999]

2005