UFC on MTV in 1998

[Cheese]

Before the TUF Era.

 

[dildos]

 

[Philo-Publius]

Before the TUF Era.

Good stuff. I remember the controversy of the UFC in the 1990's. I also remember Mark Coleman coining the phrase "ground and pound," and the evolution of mixing grappling with striking that they mentioned. The tipping point for the UFC was the fight on Spike TV between Forrest Griffin and Stephen Bonnar, which began the UFC's climb out of impending bankruptcy.

 

[bad seed]

@ 15 seconds in- NOT FOR THE PAINTED HEART

 

[Philo-Publius]

@ 15 seconds in- NOT FOR THE PAINTED HEART

Not what he said. He said it correctly.

 

[FierceRedBelt]

Early UFC marketing?

 

[Uber_Noober]

 

[breadfighter]

I remember seeing the tapes at Blockbusters as a child and thinking they were like snuff films or like underground fights to the death and wondering why they were allowed in a video store.

 

[Madmick]

Completely different era, bud.

 

[Oblivian]

Pre TUF era? Well yea, but this is pre-Zuffa era. Griffin/Bonnar wasn't until 2005. Zuffa didn't even buy until 2000.

 

[Jack Reacheround]

The song they have playing during the video is Struck a Nerve by a band called Machine Head. It was off the album The More Things Change. I still have that album. Fantastic band from Oakland. I saw them in 2000 at a place called Big Shots in Roseville. It was great.

 

[Rhood]

I want my MTV


Bring back music video's or else I'm boycotting it again like I did for over a decade.

 

[sissypunch]

If Sham Kenrock was alive today, he would be loving that clip.

 

[BullyKiller]

I remember seeing the tapes at Blockbusters as a child and thinking they were like snuff films or like underground fights to the death and wondering why they were allowed in a video store.

Lucky. My Blockbuster didn’t carry them. I had to go to the shitty video store that had the secret porn room in the back covered by a shame curtain. I wasn’t old enough to go back there.

 

[Falconkick]

Man. I loved that moment with Bonnar

 

[HunterSdVa29]

I actually got lucky as a kid/teen
my stepdad wrestled in College and coached the USMC team, and was adamant that wrestlers would win a real life Kumite (i'm dead serious)

so when the First UFCs came out, despite not being able to watch violent movies in my house or play video games, he made sure we rented all the early UFC tapes and watched them all

I actually own a box set w/ all numbered UFC events from 1-120, bootlegs in Kabul bless

 

[BullyKiller]

I actually got lucky as a kid/teen
my stepdad wrestled in College and coached the USMC team, and was adamant that wrestlers would win a real life Kumite (i'm dead serious)

so when the First UFCs came out, despite not being able to watch violent movies in my house or play video games, he made sure we rented all the early UFC tapes and watched them all

I actually own a box set w/ all numbered UFC events from 1-120, bootlegs in Kabul bless

Even the hard to acquire dark age events?

 

[HunterSdVa29]

Even the hard to acquire dark age events?

it's all the numbered UFCs, so no later UFNs or TUF finales or anything
but ya 1-120, it's like 42 discs.