Has anyone tried to watch every event in UFC history?

[jko1355]

I started watching around UFC 75 and I've watched the main card of almost all of them since

And gone back and watched a bunch. So it's possible. If you're just now starting then yeah it would be like watching a card every night for the better part of a year. I think that would burn you out.

More than a year... there have been 715 ufc events... thats 2 years not including TUF seasons...

Also I doubt every fight night that ever existed is even anywhere you can find... I mean you can catch diego sanchez vs Joe Riggs but is the entire undercarriage available? P.s. that was a good card... fight for the troops

 

[jko1355]

Definitely. There are a lot of boring fights, too. I'll watch any live broadcast, because being live makes it exciting for whatever reason, but I don't really care about who's battling for the 12th spot in Belator, I'd never watch a recorded Belator event except for the main event and maybe co-main.

Do you mean PFL... don't know of a Bellator...

 

[Taric]

You listed two, and neither were boring. Tank/Oleg was an absolute war, one of the SEG classics, and Frank/Lober II lasted 7 minutes and it consisted of Frank putting on a kickboxing clinic, dropping Lober, low kicking up a storm, and GNPing him.

PRIDE definitely had some long and boring fights that ended in draws, but the subject of discussion was UFC 1-20. You listed two fights, neither of which were boring and only one of which lasted more than 10 minutes. This is like you making up those 25 phantom pounds that Arlovski never dropped. You seem to like your hyperbole, but come on, there's a reason that they did away with rounds after not a single fight at UFC 1 made it to the end of a round. Those fights were fast and furious, and even from UFC 10-20, there weren't many long fights and the ones they had were by and large barnburners.



Okay, do you care to explain why? Are you telling me that in an entire decade of MMA around the world featuring countless legends, it's all not up to par with today, but actually terrible? If all you have to say is that ridiculously ignorant statement, then you're not contributing anything. But if you want to explain your position rather than jump into a multi-page thread with knowledgeable fans talking about the old school to say "Old MMA sucks" please feel free.

I've been watching MMA just as long as you have, I'm just not wearing rose coloured glasses.

The reason the second generation of fighters like Wanderlei, Fedor, Couture, Nogueira, etc ended up so much more vastly popular than the first generation of fighters over time is because so many of the fights from the first generation were boring to watch while the second generation largely had some of the most exciting bouts in MMA history.

When people go back and watch PRIDE 1-8 most people will say a lot of those fights are boring. Nobody enjoys Rickson bouts but people love going back and watching Nogueira bouts even though both fighters primarily had BJJ based fights. People don't go back and watch Dan Severn bouts because they simply aren't as fun to watch.

 

[Iroh]

Cause I started watching on tv in 2002 when I was like 15. I didn't go back and watch.

I see.

It's worth going back, bud. Those early GPs are legendary!

 

[Hellowhosthat]

More than a year... there have been 715 ufc events... thats 2 years not including TUF seasons...

Also I doubt every fight night that ever existed is even anywhere you can find... I mean you can catch diego sanchez vs Joe Riggs but is the entire undercarriage available? P.s. that was a good card... fight for the troops

Every UFC fight ever is on fight pass

 

[Danespina]

Also I doubt every fight night that ever existed is even anywhere you can find... I mean you can catch diego sanchez vs Joe Riggs but is the entire undercarriage available?

I checked fightpass for the first prelim, and yes, Logan Clark vs. Steve Byrnes is on there

 

[jko1355]

Every UFC fight ever is on fight pass

Are they organized by event?

 

[Hellowhosthat]

Are they organized by event?

They used to be when I did it but it's changed since then so you'd need to have the wiki list of UFC events open and use the search now I think.

 

[Trabaho]

I see.

It's worth going back, bud. Those early GPs are legendary!

I likely watched half of it trough youtube over the years. And I usually know the results anyways. UFC fight pass got all recordings in good quality ?

 

[Bullitt68]

I've been watching MMA just as long as you have, I'm just not wearing rose coloured glasses.

The reason the second generation of fighters like Wanderlei, Fedor, Couture, Nogueira, etc ended up so much more vastly popular than the first generation of fighters over time is because so many of the fights from the first generation were boring to watch while the second generation largely had some of the most exciting bouts in MMA history.

When people go back and watch PRIDE 1-8 most people will say a lot of those fights are boring. Nobody enjoys Rickson bouts but people love going back and watching Nogueira bouts even though both fighters primarily had BJJ based fights. People don't go back and watch Dan Severn bouts because they simply aren't as fun to watch.

You didn't say PRIDE 1-8. You said all MMA before 2000. You said everything for the first decade of the sport's existence was terrible. Rickson was a chickenshit who cherry-picked his fights instead of taking on Bas Rutten or Kazushi Sakuraba. But Gary Goodridge/Oleg Taktarov from PRIDE 1 is an all-time KO, Sakuraba's grappling masterclasses against Vernon White at PRIDE 2 and Carlos Newton at PRIDE 3 are some of the best displays of grappling in MMA history, while his fight with Royler at PRIDE 8 is the biggest fight from those first few events with an atmosphere I can think of being matched only a handful of times in the entire PRIDE run, and even less subtracting other Sakuraba fights. And none of this even touches on the original discussion of UFC 1-20, never mind the insanely hyperbolic lunacy of an entire decade worth of MMA action being terrible. Can you actually defend that extreme statement or can you admit that it was hyperbole and you just like more modern MMA?

 

[Bobby Boulders]

When Dream and Sengoku were still around I had watched every card from UFC Pride and every otherwise big promotion that I could find.

Salute

 

[ryun253]

i can't even watch full events now, yuck

 

[Iroh]

I likely watched half of it trough youtube over the years. And I usually know the results anyways. UFC fight pass got all recordings in good quality ?

Not sure. I have them on DVD myself. I did a quick YT search and at least found the first two events. Maybe they are all on there. It doesn't seem to have any commentary though, that's a bit of a shame, IMO.

 

[Bullitt68]

Not sure. I have them on DVD myself. I did a quick YT search and at least found the first two events. Maybe they are all on there. It doesn't seem to have any commentary though, that's a bit of a shame, IMO.

A shame? It's like you're there, man. Just hearing the sound of the fight, of the arena, is the best. Besides, they didn't have English-language commentary until Michael Schiavello started calling stuff in the early 2000s anyway IIRC. But there are Japanese DVD releases with the full commentary. If you really want it, it's out there.

 

[Iroh]

A shame? It's like you're there, man. Just hearing the sound of the fight, of the arena, is the best. Besides, they didn't have English-language commentary until Michael Schiavello started calling stuff in the early 2000s anyway IIRC. But there are Japanese DVD releases with the full commentary. If you really want it, it's out there.

Commentary is nice to get a bit of a backstory, which helps if you have to catch up with a long gone era. It really depends on what you are comparing it with though. I'm used to great KB commentary, not UFC style entertainment first conmentary.

Obviously you can do a deep dive into the backstories yourself, but I don't think most people are willing to do that. And I think it's a better viewing experience going into the fight or during the fight to get some backstory, than afterwards. Makes you feel a bit more transported back in time, when watching. Same with old boxing documentaries giving you a summary of the narratives going into the fight and stuff like that.

But I'm sure some YTer must have documentary style vids on the Golden Era of K-1.but the problem obviously is that you will be spoiled with the results if you watch that in advance of watching the fights themselves .

Here's at least something that looks promising though. But it's a broader time period it's covering, so I don't know how thoroughly the Golden Era is covered.

 

[Bullitt68]

Commentary is nice to get a bit of a backstory, which helps if you have to catch up with a long gone era. It really depends on what you are comparing it with though. I'm used to great KB commentary, not UFC style entertainment first conmentary.

Obviously you can do a deep dive into the backstories yourself, but I don't think most people are willing to do that. And I think it's a better viewing experience going into the fight or during the fight to get some backstory, than afterwards. Makes you feel a bit more transported back in time, when watching. Same with old boxing documentaries giving you a summary of the narratives going into the fight and stuff like that.

But I'm sure some YTer must have documentary style vids on the Golden Era of K-1.but the problem obviously is that you will be spoiled with the results if you watch that in advance of watching the fights themselves .

Here's at least something that looks promising though. But it's a broader time period it's covering, so I don't know how thoroughly the Golden Era is covered.

Good point. I get what you mean with getting the perspectives/info of the day. Assuming you're an English speaker and are wanting English-language commentary, I'll be honest with you: I never saw any K-1 with English-language commentary. The only reason I even know that it existed is because I remember a spiel of Schiavello's on Cro Cop being used in a HL vid way back in the day (which I watched so many times that I remember his lines: "Cro Cop is no nonsense" and "Cro Cop is, well, perfect in his execution of techniques" ). I only know K-1 as full of Japanese commentators screaming shit that I didn't understand or the commentary-less footage. If you speak Japanese, there's plenty of this sort of thing out there...



...otherwise you're better off with the ringside audio.

 

[Bubzeh]

I can't believe there are people on this forum that haven't seen every UFC event...

 

[CosyToasty]

Are they organized by event?

They used to be when I did it but it's changed since then so you'd need to have the wiki list of UFC events open and use the search now I think.

They still are, you just go into fight library and they have all of the events for each year. There are a few fight nightsd and tuf finales missing but its still pretty well organised

 

[Paolo Delutis]

You just watch them White belt.... Doesnt matter how long...














Do you wanna be a fucking UFC fan ...or not

 

[Billthebutcher]

UFC does have a lot of shitty fights that nobody needs to see.
Watching the 1sts is better, Royce early domination, Pancrase w/Bas, Pride with Rickson, Sak, Mirko & Igor, Extreme Challenge with Lewis, Gracie & Conan, Superbrawl KO's are crazy. KOTC, Strike force have their moments as well.