Before TUF? Before Youtube?
Blockbuster.
Ordering PPVs.
Buying DVDs.
Buying Magazines (if you could find them)
Sherdog.
Watching Japan events at 3 in the morning or on tape delay.
Sometimes Subfighter.com would post highlights or full fights if they were short enough.
You had to be dedicated. A casual could not survive.
I miss subfighter.
They actually sponsored me way back when very cool guys.
Ironlife was fantastic too.
I've posted it before but an example of how hard it was watching back then.
I used Sopcast, I think. Anyway some sort of audio stream program.
It was Kerr's return. Against Yamamoto I think.
It was a feed of the commentary, may have been someone translating the Japanese commentary.
I don't remember for sure. But what I do remember...
I was all excited for Kerr. Then I hear that he got a takedown.
"Kerr with a double leg"
"He's taking unanswered shots"
"He's out"
I'm all happy, Kerr just won with a double leg slam. And finished him with strikes!!!
Then it dawn's on me.
Kerr was the one that went out... DDTd himself.
Followed by depression...