Fights you got physical jitters for?

HHJ said:
All Fedor's fights.

Wanderlei, crocop.
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This right here.
Poatan and Jiri in the current era, but I’d be lying by saying it’s the same. I get excited, but certainly not shaking. DDP, Islam, Tom and Ilia are close as well.
 
Fedor/Cro Cop
Machida/Shogun 1
Tanner/Terrell
 
I usually fell alseep when GSP fought, but he is one of the best ever. I was at UFC 69, when Matt Serra shocked the world. I almost choked on my popcorn, when GSP lost. Then, GSP came back in the rematch and destroyed Serra at UFC 79.
 
Watching them live...

Cro Cop in the OWGP and then his first few fights in the UFC. 2006 was the highest high, 2007 the lowest low, but I literally felt like there was a livewire attached to my spine.

Randy Couture's HW comeback. I jumped up when he dropped Tim in the first ten seconds and I refused to sit back down. Every round, in between rounds, I stayed standing for half an hour for fear of jinxing Randy. And then the Gonzaga fight was almost too good to be true, he took some big shots but it was like he couldn't lose that night.

Chuck/Wand. Both had faded by that point, but I still couldn't believe the fight was finally happening, and it was a war fitting for both.

GSP against Alves and BJ II. Against Alves, I wondered if GSP had finally met his match, someone strong enough with good enough TDD to keep him on the feet and nasty enough striking to put him down. I was in awe of the clinic GSP put on that night, IMO his best wrestling display. And I couldn't stand BJ and his fans were even worse, so I was champing at the bit as much as GSP for him to pulverize BJ, and that was an extremely satisfying beatdown.
 
ventrue said:
I usually fell alseep when GSP fought, but he is one of the best ever. I was at UFC 69, when Matt Serra shocked the world. I almost choked on my popcorn, when GSP lost. Then, GSP came back in the rematch and destroyed Serra at UFC 79.
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No, you've got that wrong. After losing to Serra at UFC 69, GSP beat Koscheck at UFC 74, beat Hughes for the second time at UFC 79 (when Serra got injured and couldn't defend his title against Hughes, so GSP stepped in for the rubber match with Hughes for the interim title), then avenged his loss to Serra and took back the WW title at UFC 83.
 
Any time Sam Patterson or Modestas Bukauskas fight - trained at the same place as both of them at various times in my life so always nervous that something horrendous is going to happen (like Sam's first UFC fight :( )
 
Bullitt68 said:
No, you've got that wrong. After losing to Serra at UFC 69, GSP beat Koscheck at UFC 74, beat Hughes for the second time at UFC 79 (when Serra got injured and couldn't defend his title against Hughes, so GSP stepped in for the rubber match with Hughes for the interim title), then avenged his loss to Serra and took back the WW title at UFC 83.
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Your right Brother. I am getting old and feeble, lol
When I was at UFC 69, it was so surreal. The whole building was going crazy for GSP, on his walkout. He looked amazing. Fresh, powerful. I doubt there were more than 10 people in that arena that actually thought Serra would win.
When it happened, the whole arena went silent in shock. Then, a few seconds later, everyone went ape shit.

But for me, it will always be Fedor/Cro Cop. I will never forget that fight and here on Sherdog. The whole forum shutdown, lol I couldn't log back on until the next night.
 
Sweaty hands and fast beating heart I get during the introductions of any big fight between two of the best in the world
 
ventrue said:
Your right Brother. I am getting old and feeble, lol
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Believe me, I know. I was in high school when I discovered MMA. I knew everyone and everything and my memory was a steel trap. Now I just had to look it up before posting to make sure that GSP/Hughes III at UFC 79 actually was for the interim WW title 😁

ventrue said:
When I was at UFC 69, it was so surreal. The whole building was going crazy for GSP, on his walkout. He looked amazing. Fresh, powerful. I doubt there were more than 10 people in that arena that actually thought Serra would win.
When it happened, the whole arena went silent in shock. Then, a few seconds later, everyone went ape shit.
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Sounds about right. Have we had anything closer than that to Buster Douglas beating Tyson? Nobody in their right mind was giving Serra a serious shot. This wasn't like Anderson Silva being largely unknown to the UFC fan base while the "hardcore" fans knew that he had more than just a chance at beating Franklin. Serra was older and fighting at least one weight class higher than he should've been, while GSP had beaten Hughes and ascended to the WW throne. I can't imagine actually being there and seeing, hearing, and feeling the energy in the arena before, during, and after that shocker.

ventrue said:
But for me, it will always be Fedor/Cro Cop. I will never forget that fight and here on Sherdog. The whole forum shutdown, lol I couldn't log back on until the next night.
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That was back when I was just "lurking" on here. Not technically before my time, but before I was following PRIDE. I had a couple of friends who knew about the UFC thanks to the PlayStation 2 game Throwdown. They spotted Ultimate Knockouts 3 on SpikeTV one night while I was flipping channels and we watched Ken Shamrock KO Kimo from UFC 48. I was hooked immediately (it helped that Ken Shamrock was my second favorite WWF wrestler growing up behind Stone Cold, and I remembered all the shit about "ultimate fighting," his "Lion's Den" matches with Steve Blackman, his "ankle lock" submission, etc.). I don't remember exactly when that was, somewhere late 2004. Then I discovered Sherdog and lurked all of 2005. What still burns me up: In January of 2006, a friend of mine casually mentioned posting something on Sherdog. This sneaky little shit who I got hooked on MMA and who I introduced Sherdog to, he signed up without telling me. As soon as he told me, I joined, but he had the 2005 join date while I had the 2006 join date. He had seniority even though I showed him the damn site!

Even with my lurking, though, I was really only paying attention to the UFC. But the Fedor/Cro Cop stuff was so huge that even though I didn't know either one of them I knew those names and I was trying to learn what I could from the Fight Finder, I knew PRIDE was out there full of former UFC guys, but it wasn't until I accidentally saw a DirecTV PPV advertisement for PRIDE 30 that I realized that the Japanese shit was accessible to me. It was stupid of me not to realize it then, but I had no idea how anybody was watching PRIDE. Seeing all of Cro Cop's HLs was all I needed to see, plus Ken Shamrock is my all-time favorite fighter and he was fighting Sakuraba at PRIDE 30. I worked backwards from there, Cro Cop quickly became my second favorite fighter after Ken, and of course I registered the magnitude of Fedor/Cro Cop after the fact. It's too bad my fandom didn't start a year or two earlier, as I would've loved to have been following PRIDE for that. My friends and I also used to talk about figuring out somehow after high school to go to Japan for a PRIDE event...then before we even graduated PRIDE was gone. I don't really have regrets, but man I would've loved to have been in the Tokyo Dome or the Saitama Super Arena for a live PRIDE event. In fact, on the subject of this thread, I'll never forget the electricity of watching Cro Cop walk out for his first UFC fight and for the first time ever not coming out to Duran Duran's "Wild Boys" and instead coming out to the PRIDE theme song. My friends and I lost our shit!!!!

Ah, good times.
 
Some of these guys get physical jitters and erections every time Conor tweeters.
 
I get pretty excited for most UFC title fights still. I think the most highly anticipated fights I've seen though were GSP vs Penn 2 and a few of Brock Lesnar's title fights.

I didn't get overly jittery about Fedor's fights because I thought he would pretty much win all of them. Werdum submitting him was a huge shock to me.
 
Every time someone came within a foot of Overeem's chin, especially post-Brock.
 
Doctor Grudge said:
I get pretty excited for most UFC title fights still.
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I envy you. Whether it's the chicken or the egg - whether I don't really follow the sport anymore because it no longer excites me or whether the sport no longer excites me because I don't really follow it anymore - I haven't been excited for a UFC fight since Khabib/Conor. I couldn't even tell you the last event I watched beginning to end, and when I watch fights now it feels academic, not that old burning need I had to see every fight possible. That said, I still love the history of the sport, and I get as excited now rewatching UFC 6 or UFC 34 or PRIDE 26 or Bushido 9 or the 1994 King of Pancrase tournament as I used to when I was a teenager. I can still connect to that, that fire will never go out, but I don't know that I can get the spark back for the current product.

Doctor Grudge said:
I didn't get overly jittery about Fedor's fights because I thought he would pretty much win all of them. Werdum submitting him was a huge shock to me.
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Haha, I was the other way: It's because he was undefeated and so unstoppable that I'd get antsy wondering if THIS was going to be the night he finally loses. The Arlovski and Rogers fights were tense because it was clear he'd lost a step but not clear if losing that step meant that someone would finally be able to beat him. The night Werdum tapped him was the longest that the forum had ever been shut down in my experience, it just imploded from everyone's incredulity.
 
I'm not generally one who roots for my fellow countrymen per se, I don't care much about nationalism, but I grew up watching Mikkel Kessler, and watched his fights with my dad, so they were kinda special. I was fucking nervous for those.

Long time ago, and I know it isn't MMA.
 
I forget who her opponent was but Meisha Tate's first fight after I saw her arsehole

I knocked out a goodun right before her fight and I was physically and mentally exhausted afterwards. Proper jittery. It was a cocaine wank, basically a marathon
 
Luthien said:
@HI SCOTT NEWMAN used to go crazy when Andre Roberts. The Chief fought :)
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Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha can't stop laughing because its so true :D I remember that time, its actually true, You are psychic. Can I have a tarot card reading

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