The fighter not from your time you like the most

[SirKratos]

Spartacus

 

[kikikhan]

Dioxippus of Athens

If only we had replays of the ancient fighters

 

[Le 7th Samurai]

Prime Peter Aerts

or

Andy Hug

 

[So Fresh]

I grew up watching boxing with my father in the 80s and picked up on MMA right around UFC 3, but I never really got into kickboxing or muay Thai or any of the sports that didn't become popular in the US until the last decade or so. So I think I'll go with Ernesto Hoost.

great choice
Ernesto Hoost was a beast

I was really depressed after his losses against Bob Sapp, just couldn't believe it lol

 

[kikikhan]

great choice
Ernesto Hoost was a beast

I was really depressed after his losses against Bob Sapp, just couldn't believe it lol

I laughed, because everybody was counting a mountain of a man out, because he wasn't trained properly

 

[The-AxeMurderer]

Mike Tyson.

 

[So Fresh]

I laughed, because everybody was counting a mountain of a man out, because he wasn't trained properly

Yeah, Hoost was over the hill tho, wasn't his finest hour

 

[K1MMA]

Didn't see those badabing badabooms.

Started to follow MMA around the time when he ended his career.

 

[Bob Sapp Junior]

^ Hoost/Sapp was what got me into combat sports. Didnt matter that Ernesto lost, his gameplan against that Beast completely enraptured me.

Sakuraba is my answer, the man was transcendent.

 

[vkram]

Ronda Rousey- I mean her skills are ahead of our time. He boxing is on the level of great champions such as Ali and Roy Jones Jr. Whilst her judo is out of this world, if she competed in the next Olympics she would be a a shoe in for the gold medal. It is also well documented that she has the ability to defeat the majority of male fighters in the UFC rooster, most notably Cain Velasquez.

 

[Moral Victory]

Sakuraba :/

 

[BabyBlue_Bomber]

See AV...

 

[MMA]

Honestly when I watch the fights from before my time they're practically a different sport

The fights from before my time I'd have liked to see live the most are... boxing

 

[Lil Smokie]

Faye Door

 

[CoffeeAndBeer]

More of you should be saying Gina Carano.

Every fight was exciting. Action fighter. Mostly outsized her opponents, but thats how things were then.

 

[Sgt Smith]

MMA not so much. Started really folowing the sport around 2001. The fighters I do watch highlights of are from that time on. Sakuraba, Igor, Nock Diaz, Aoki, Kid, Maia, Reem etc.

I do have a fetish for vintage boxing film, like waaay before my time. Was watching me some Sugar Ray Robinson just a minute ago.



I can't even put into words how awesome this is.

Man, that guy was special. Vintage boxing for me as well. I'm old enough to have seen Hagler-Hearns and remember it well. Still enjoy boxing, but it's lost some of it's luster.

 

[stav]

Spartacus

 

[Cptn1NSAN0]

Igor Vovchanchyn in MMA and Ray Robinson in boxing

 

[ejazahmednit]

Fedor, Cro-Cop(prime cro cop),prime penn,even tito

for boxing
ali,foreman,frazier