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History What Brought You To Sherdog

I found Sherdog through a really obscure MMA forum called CombatFighterZone (RIP). We was all apart of a wrestling forum in 2002, and when I stopped following wrestling in 2003, the MMA section on the wrestling forum were a group of lads who had created their own small MMA forum.

I remember asking on there if there's anywhere I could check fighters records and someone suggested Sherdog. I loved the Fight Finder, was always using it. I lurked the forums for a year or two then decided to join.
 
I saw an MMA highlight of Hayato Sakurai with Sherdog watermark on it. It's around the time MMA starting to take off with UFC & Pride. Got me curious checking out the site & forum and the rest is history
 
My father and I watched MMA very sporadically starting with Shamrock/Gracie 2. He was a boxing fan and didn't really care for MMA/UFC. I would look for MMA videos and highlights and saw the SD watermarked a lot. I became a full fledged MMA fan watching Shamrock post WWE fight Tito. Visited the site often but didn't post until 2009. I was what used to be called a TUF noob then.
 
Around 2000-2001 I started lurking because there wasn't any mainstream coverage of the UFC and Pride.
 
I remember VHS of early UFC. I remember Ruas chopping down the Polar Bear. I remember Ken and Severn doing nothing for 30 minutes. I remember Tank.

Then I got back into it with TUF and joined.
 
I used to come on here to watch the UFC weigh-ins before the UFC showed them.
I also used to read the play by play when I couldn't find a Pride stream. <Fedor23> <{JustBleed}>
 
Me and my friends liked wrestling and so got into MMA after watching the spike TV ufc hl show. Don't really care about mma anymore though. Now I just watch boxing and argue with liberal boomers.
 
Originally it was just MMA results, and probably around 2007 or 2008 I started lurking on the forums. Didn't make an account for a while because I guess I didn't really feel like interacting at that point, just seeing what others were talking about and how others viewed the sport and fighters.

Fedor is still my favorite fighter, and I finally signed up a week before the Werdum fight to start talking about it. And of course I was like so many others, told my girlfriend at the time, "Oh you gotta watch this dude, he's going to wreck this guy," only for Werdum to troll face everyone 😭
 
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MMA results and fightfinder. Mainly when I was in Iraq and this was the easiest way to find out what was happening. Back in 2006. Made an account in 2007 then.
 
Pride which I watched when living in Japan. Then I was in Vietnam on holiday and knew Ken Shamrock was fighting Ortiz at UFC 40. I stumbled across an internet cafe and started looking up the results. Then stumbled across Sherdog.
 
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