What kind of casual are you?

[BowserJr]

Started getting interested in the sport after playing a demo of the first UFC video game on Sega Dreamcast. Then I started downloading the old Sherdog highlight vids off of Morpheus/Kazaa. This was around 2001/2002.

Kazaa!!! Holy shit

 

[BowserJr]

Im that fan that just out grew it. Once competition died, then the scene slowly dies, and now we got this new age stuff, and imo, the fans expectations are alot lower these days.

We would have laughed back in the day if a fighter got a bjj blackbelt in 4 years. Bj penn atleast proved he was worthy. These new guys just dont have that world class to their grappling anymore. Very rarely you get a high level wrestler anymore, when back then, they were too common.


I cant pin point the exact thing, cause i think its multiple. But the sport is just not as fun anymore

I generally agree. TBF I was annoyed at lay n pray wrestlers but nowadays MW and up has 0 grappling. I prefer lnp over 0 grappling toughman level fighters who point fight

 

[joy2day]

I thought they were fake when I first heard about them from co-workers in the 90s. The first one I watched was when Tank sends Tua into a seizure, I was like "Holy shit! This is real!"

 

[blaa_kriger]

I only watch Conor fights, maybe some of the Paul brothers fights.

But seriously I started watching mma late 90s, me and some friends borrowed some shitty pirated ufc tapes and I was hooked after that.

 

[Bobby Boulders]

polls are somewhat fucked right now unfortunatley until they fix the forum

I am somewhere in between
"Watched UFC 1 Live!"
and
Pride Never Die!

First UFC was UFC 5.
You could call my Era the "Blockbuster era" if anything lol

Same. 6 for me. Also a Pancrase and Extreme Fighting noob

 

[TriangleMonkey]

UFC 3 noob

Homie had 1-3 from Blockbuster Video (RIP)

He used two VCR’s (RIP) stacked on top of one another and dubbed the series

We were 15-16yrs old and would proceed to “UFC” ourselves in the living room

I started training at a gym that same year and have never stopped LoL

 

[Bobby Boulders]

I'm thoroughly satisfied by how Blockbuster changed so many of our lives. I'm not going through and responding to each individual with Jeremiah Johnson GIFs, but I think you know what I'm getting at

 

[VinceArch]

TUF noob!

 

[JPOMMA]

I traned UFC bro!

 

[L0ki]

I'm all of them.

 

[bean88]

I started watching around the Brock era but not because I was a WWE fan (I didn’t know who he was until the UFC)

I also was hooked on TUF for a while but more going back watching old seasons to get a feel for who people were

So somewhere between TUF noob and Brocktober guy

 

[Doctor Grudge]

I'd say I was a TUF noob. TUF season 5 with Pulver vs Pens that had Manny Gamburyan, Nate Diaz, Gray Maynard, Joe Lauzon and others. I thought every Ultimate fighter would have stacked rosters like that.

 

[Better Every Day]

I watched UFC 1 on a videotape rented from Blockbuster.

 

[Doctor Grudge]

Im that fan that just out grew it. Once competition died, then the scene slowly dies, and now we got this new age stuff, and imo, the fans expectations are alot lower these days.

We would have laughed back in the day if a fighter got a bjj blackbelt in 4 years. Bj penn atleast proved he was worthy. These new guys just dont have that world class to their grappling anymore. Very rarely you get a high level wrestler anymore, when back then, they were too common.


I cant pin point the exact thing, cause i think its multiple. But the sport is just not as fun anymore

People rarely get black belts in 4 years. How has that changed?

 

[KBE6EKCTAH_CCP]

"Watched UFC 1 Live!"
Pride Never Die!
I traned UFC bro!
TUF Noob
Brock/WWE crossover
Conrad McNugget fan
JRE crossover
Rainbow Hair Face Tat Fan


Can someone make a poll out of this?

I am a hybrid. Watched UFC1 live and rented UFCs on VHS in the 90‘s. But I didn‘t really follow the sport until like 2010 and even then it was sort of on and off.

 

[MigitAs]

Found my dad’s ufc VHS collection before TUF 1

 

[Luffy]

Uh, I guess an overall noob if it's MMA broadly but kinda consistent follower of specific fighters. I don’t watch just any MMA fight at all—I need to be invested in the fighters. But if there’s a name I connect with, either because they’ve built an incredible record or there’s something about them that pulls me in, then I get really invested. I get that nervous feeling during their fights, and I’ll watch all their past fights and dig deep into researching them. Though it just started to be more consistent ever since 2023 when it became my #1 hobby outside of work and social life / irl practicing sports. I've known some fighters ever since 2011 or so though, and would casually check the results here and then, most times to see "has JJ lost once already?" — I kinda rooted for him to lose as my father is a real Lyoto Machida fan and I was watching it with him (I was barely 10 yo though lulz) but still, it was, until 2023, a very superficial following. I think that when seeing JJ just wouldn't lose, I kinda started rooting for him to finish his career as just an all unstoppable force in the octagon, in the sense, that people made him a monster to the point he became even like a different kind of monster to still be seen as a monster after 15 years in this mystical fighter...

 

[Sms_productions713]

People rarely get black belts in 4 years. How has that changed?

Didnt periera just get his or brown belt? Either way, thats too quick. Especially for a 38 yr old kickboxer.

 

[khukurikoo]

Caught the 1st UFC live on the hot box. Then me and my brother used to "trane UFC" in the basement even though we had no idea what we were doing, and it'd turn into me kicking his ass because I was older. He'd kill me now lol Been a fan since although don't follow MMA nearly as much as I used to. Also PrideFC never die.

 

[Doctor Grudge]

Didnt periera just get his or brown belt? Either way, thats too quick. Especially for a 38 yr old kickboxer.

Come on man, I knew right away when you said that you'd mention Poatan lol. Even if you were right, do you really think that is a representation of the entire BJJ and MMA community?


But to answer your question - Poatan has been training in BJJ for a decade already. He didn't start BJJ when he joined the UFC.