What was the first MMA fight that felt really big to you?

[Benoitthegr8]

I’m going with Couture vs. Liddell as being a big event that had huge build up.

 

[Bork Neslar]

Gerard Gordeau vs Teila Yuli.

 

[TriangleMonkey]

This was some barbaric shit

I was in a Kenpo school for the next 10yrs immediately after this

 

[gspieler]

Chuck/Tito II. Was the first mma fight I witnessed, that had that big fight aura and atmosphere of a big boxing fight. IIRC, it was the first UFC card to break a million buys.

 

[1BadMF]

Royce vs Shamrock I

 

[VAfan]

i was getting into it around the time that hughes beat gsp, so i remember how pumped up i was for the 2nd fight, and how psyched i was that gsp won.

 

[HHJ]

Tito vs Ken 1 UFC 40

That fight had everything you wanted in terms of rivalry, star power and on that huge WWE style stage. As well as being an awesome fight…. Or one sided beating

Same.


This fight made more noise than any other fight previously to that point.

 

[Ignatius]

I watched UFC 2-11 and the rest. So I've seen it. It was all shocking at the time but I saw the evolution as a martial artist myself.

The FIRST game changing fight I saw to me was Marco Ruas vs. Paul Varleans. That was where early UFC met modern well rounded MMA future.

 

[Thai Domi]

Call a super fight or a unusually big fight. What was the first MMA fight you remember felt like a special fight to you?

For me it was probably Chuck Liddell vs Tito Ortiz. The first fight. Because the long build up. And the history between then.

The next one was Chuck Liddell vs Randy Couture 2. The two coaches from TUF season 1. Finally gonna do the rematch for the title.

Also kinda from the same era: Crocop vs Fedor.

Chuck and Tito is what got me into mma.