The Evolution of Sherdog Forums

Morning Star said:
Sherdog never dies. We run this shit. How many forums can you say are relevant after social media? Basically none. Not trying to be confrontational, you're a solid poster.
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The forums I'm referring to are extremely small. Tons of members, but a few dozen regulars. Conversations are basically just shit we're up to every day. A small family, in a way.
 
'Rocky' said:
It was consensus Fedor until GSP started emerging. Throughout Silva's run it was overwhelmingly Silva until Weidman came along. Shoops of Silva front kicking polar bears and stuff. Anderson's run was the most remarkable to me. Living through it was different than going back and watching. There was an aura he had that was unreal to be around for. Makes me wonder what it was like to watch Ali as his career progressed.
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Chuck too, now the guy gets no respect. I did not like him, and he consistently ruined my fight nights lol...
 
Elmo said:
Chuck too, now the guy gets no respect. I did not like him, and he consistently ruined my fight nights lol...
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I couldn't help but distance myself from Chuck because of his popularity. Always liked him, though. Especially when he fought Tito the first two times. I thought Wand was gonna end him at UFC 79.
 
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Morning Star said:
Sherdog never dies. We run this shit. How many forums can you say are relevant after social media? Basically none. Not trying to be confrontational, you're a solid poster.
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I've always tried to find what are the current most popular discussion forums (traffic wise) . Never had much luck.
I assume 4chan and Reddit top the charts by an order of magnitude. But then what's next in the top10?
 
'Rocky' said:
I lurked for a good year or two on this forum before joining. Back in the early 2000s, die hard MMA fans were extremely rare, especially in person. At best you'd have a friend or two who was moderately into the sport, but not anywhere near the encyclopedia of knowledge that you were. On sherdog, it was a completely different monster. The history of MMA was still young, and nearly every damn poster knew every tiny detail about the sport. I can still recite a lot of Main Card fights from the first 100 UFC events and most of PRIDE. This was the place to talk shop about anything MMA.

I've always been a frequent reader and casual poster, so watching the forum evolving as the sport grows has been interesting in unexpected ways. I'm seeing threads being made from newer posters who have just started getting into the sport over the last couple of years, discovering some of the history of MMA, and it really puts into perspective how different the forum is now. What once was absolute common knowledge among every poster is now much lesser known. It's really cool to see that, and it makes me feel nostalgic for the early era of MMA and the discussions on sherdog. The forum collapsing after every big event, "The Heavyweights" (or: f2), The Year of the Upset, the Rashad shoop thread, etc... Good times. I frequent some other non-MMA forums, never made any close friends on sherdog, but it's low-key become a place I really cherish. A rare poster here, just stopping in to say thanks for the memories and the fun that's lasted over the last 15 years or so.

One thing I don't want to see change is watching some of you retards argue. That's been the one constant that I just cannot part with.

Thanks for reading.
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I definitely feel the same way. The only thing I wish sherdog hadn't ruined was the "ask the fighters" section. Other than that, I love this place. I rarely post too but love reading people argue even if they are wrong 90% of the time. I love reading the nuthuggers doing mental gymnastics over their favourite fighter. I even love the constant Conor threads haha
Never change Sherdog, you 6'3", 264lb natty gods
 
We could have a subforum for 5+ year old accounts. Or 10.
No noobs allowed.
 
davidlemonparty said:
I've always tried to find what are the current most popular discussion forums (traffic wise) . Never had much luck.
I assume 4chan and Reddit top the charts by an order of magnitude. But then what's next in the top10?
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To me Reddit isn't a forum it's an app. For men it's Sherdog, bodybuilding.com forums, maybe the UG, 4Chan if you want to see fucked up shit.
 
I only really remember the big grey format, when people would actually have to engage in conversation, without being able to just throw out likes.

I came for the Pro-Wrestling threads, stayed for the War Room shenanigans.
 
'Rocky' said:
I lurked for a good year or two on this forum before joining. Back in the early 2000s, die hard MMA fans were extremely rare, especially in person. At best you'd have a friend or two who was moderately into the sport, but not anywhere near the encyclopedia of knowledge that you were. On sherdog, it was a completely different monster. The history of MMA was still young, and nearly every damn poster knew every tiny detail about the sport. I can still recite a lot of Main Card fights from the first 100 UFC events and most of PRIDE. This was the place to talk shop about anything MMA.

I've always been a frequent reader and casual poster, so watching the forum evolving as the sport grows has been interesting in unexpected ways. I'm seeing threads being made from newer posters who have just started getting into the sport over the last couple of years, discovering some of the history of MMA, and it really puts into perspective how different the forum is now. What once was absolute common knowledge among every poster is now much lesser known. It's really cool to see that, and it makes me feel nostalgic for the early era of MMA and the discussions on sherdog. The forum collapsing after every big event, "The Heavyweights" (or: f2), The Year of the Upset, the Rashad shoop thread, etc... Good times. I frequent some other non-MMA forums, never made any close friends on sherdog, but it's low-key become a place I really cherish. A rare poster here, just stopping in to say thanks for the memories and the fun that's lasted over the last 15 years or so.

One thing I don't want to see change is watching some of you retards argue. That's been the one constant that I just cannot part with.

Thanks for reading.
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Great post man. Describes my sherdog experience to a tee!
I learned how to be a dick becuse of sherdog. And for that i thank you all.
 
Morning Star said:
To me Reddit isn't a forum it's an app. For men it's Sherdog, bodybuilding.com forums, maybe the UG, 4Chan if you want to see fucked up shit.
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I just did some searching..a super weird result..perhaps unsurprising.
Big forums are shit like IGN, GameFAQs, Gaia Online, stackexchange, Microsoft development, guitar online, XDA (android development), some porn ones.
Couldn't find sherdog in any top 50 list. It has a wiki page at least!
 
Was a very different forum back then. It's fun now and it was fun back then, just smaller. One thought I remember was the was when Lesnar came to mma. It sent a shockwave through the forums, a WWE guy in the UFC. He was the first one to really get people going on here.
 
Sherdog way back only one cool mod was around and it was @Kforcer

Every other mod was way too much of a tryhard in gate keeping the sports image or some bullshit. Like, the sport was full of convicts, bank robbers, drug dealers and all this shit. Saying they were a shit fighter and a shitty person was banworthy lmao
 
Bamboozled said:
Sherdog way back only one cool mod was around and it was @Kforcer

Every other mod was way too much of a tryhard in gate keeping the sports image or some bullshit. Like, the sport was full of convicts, bank robbers, drug dealers and all this shit. Saying they were a shit fighter and a shitty person was banworthy lmao
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Thanks bro, I appreciate that.
 
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