What was your favorite year for UFC?

[SPooderMan]

2013 was my favorite. So many interesting storylines and fights. Every card felt like you were watching something monumental happen or seeing a superstar in the making

Ubereem descending to overeem, walking out with the most cocky entrance, getting late KO'd by big foot silva
Jose Aldo vs Frankie Edgar, edgar dropping down a weight class in an attempt to become the 3rd multidivision champ
GSP vs Nick Diaz, "george here selling you wolf tickets"
Mark Hunt's resurgence culminating in a showdown with JDS. Hunt was a huge fan favorite at the time. It was surreal to see him get this far
Renan barao destroying the BW division who some believed to be p4p #1

The rise of WMMA with Ronda Rousey's first card in a dominating performance over Liz Carmouche
Bendo vs Pettis 2, a rematch from the fight that brought you the most jaw dropping wall kick ever
TRTfort on a tear, bisping loses an eye, rockhold eats a spinning kick from hell

Conor Mcgregor's incredible fight in a dominating performance over max holloway
Mark Hunt vs big foot silva in one of the best fights of the last decade
Cain vs JDS 3, cain brutalizes JDS in a fight that took years off JDS's career

GSP vs Hendricks, GSP has never been pushed like this. A lot of people doubted Hendricks. Thought it'd be another GSP decision. Hendricks brought GSP to an incredible back and forth fight that many believed hendricks to have won
Jones vs Gustafsson, Jones felt invincible. His reach, his fight IQ, his ability to adapt. The man just took out a laundry list of former champs. And then gustafsson brought the fight to him and made him feel beatable. Again a fight many thought gustafsson to have won
Rousey vs Tate 2, this fight was the fight to solidify WMMA to the fans. A real feud and a beautiful armbar by rousey to snap tate's arm

Silva vs Weidman 1/2, the spider loses his crown. It felt like this man dominated for a century. Didn't matter how dire the circumstance, he always found a to win and put on a show. But weidman finally took him out by fearlessly marching forward. But we thought Silva was taunting too much. We needed to serious Silva. We needed a rematch. And in that same year, Weidman dominated him in the first round, and shattered Silva's tibia with a ruthless check. Literally watching the spider break to conclude the year was horrifying for me and every other fan. I felt like shit. Couldn't even log into sherdog because I didn't wanna see the hate threads. Feared this was the last time I'd see him fight. But looking back he had a great career afterwards. And I'd like to think of it as the insanity needed to top off such an incredible year.

 

[Leinster Rugby]

Around 2008 when the LHW belt was being passed around like a spliff. Also BJ, Anderson, GSP all active as were Brock, Mir and Nog.

Good Times.

 

[Doctor Grudge]

I think I stopped in 2013 because that's when a lot of the non-UFC promotions I followed died, and there was a big explosion of UFC events with their new TV deals that made it jarring for me to follow it for a while.

I had to learn how to consume the UFC differently when it wasn't a once per month show.

 

[Bobby Boulders]

Probably like 1997

 

[Bork Neslar]

1993. It was all downhill from there.

 

[gosuasus]

Every year in the 1990s was epic.

Probably 2006 from what I've seen live. UFC's first year after TUF resurgence. Roughly 20 events, 10 PPVs. No content saturation and repetitive fights. 7 out of 11 title fights ended in a KO. HW and LHW belts were defended several times. Anderson and GSP became champions by beating Franklin and Hughes respectively.

Also 2008 was awesome with Brock storming the heavyweight division. He injected dopamine into the fans like no other fighter.

 

[don't ask]

When the Pride guys came over.

 

[usernamee]

It was pretty fun around Conor peak era simply because that is the only time and probably will be the only time where my friends who aren't even mainstream UFC fans, they're guys that never ever watched fucking UFC, now all of a sudden they wanted to sit up in the middle of the night to watch Conor fight which was fun

The very first time I watched MMA will always be special though, it was like looking into another world or something. Shit was crazy. Especially how Pride did things, it was like watching a dream or something.

 

[PurpleStorm]

There's been a lot of great years. Truthfully my favorite is always this year and next year. I enjoy living in the present and looking forward to the future.

 

[Lee Danger]

 

[ALAN PARTRIDGE]

2003 or so

 

[Thepaintbucket]

Dude it's 2009 and I'm not even playing around

GSP vs Penn 2
Silva vs Forrest
Hendo vs Bisping
Lyoto vs Rashad and Rua
Randy vs nog
Penn vs Sanchez
Sexyama vs Belcher
Wandy vs Franklin
Lesnar vs strawberries 2
Penn vs the plagiarizer
Carwin vs manbear pig
Liddell vs Rua
Bisping vs Kang
Koscheck vs rumble
GSP vs alves
Franklin vs Belfort
Lyoto vs Thiago Silva
Cain vs Kongo
Johnny Hendricks vs amir
Nate Marquardt vs k1 Maia
Chael vs Yushin
Rumble vs yoshida
Cain vs Big Ben
Lil Nog vs dark horse Luiz
Koscheck vs dark horse Paulo
Kimbo slice vs Houston is for real. Battle of the cardio
Roy Nelson vs goofball Brendan schaub
Mir vs Kongo

 

[TeenageMutantLesnarTurtle]

Dunno about a single year but 2009-2011 was when things felt most electric.

 

[don't ask]

Randy vs nog

This is an underrated fight and is one of the best grappling battles ever put on. I never get tired of watching it. (Big Nog and Fedor consistently put on the most rewatchable fights for me. A surprising entry in that category is Nick Diaz's Strikeforce run, but don't get me started on his career after that.)

 

[Thepaintbucket]

This is an underrated fight and is one of the best grappling battles ever put on. I never get tired of watching it. (Big Nog and Fedor consistently put on the most rewatchable fights for me. A surprising entry in that category is Nick Diaz's Strikeforce run, but don't get me started on his career after that.)

Definitely one of the greatest matchups in UFC history. I never expected both of them to perform like that. I guess they really wanted it badly

 

[Luthien]

Whatever year Rashad and Rampage had beef

 

[Luthien]

I was ten and this was REAL Let it happen!

 

[Herwald]

2016 was the last hype year for me and I remember it as my absolute favorite.

January 2nd was Condit vs Lawler - Fight of the Year. Later T-Wood became champ (his best performance). Bisping went undefeated and won the belt (Silva, Luke 2, Hendo 2). Stipe went undefeated and won the belt (Arlovski, Werdum, Overeem) - the silence after the Werdum fight... iconic shit.

I remember shitting a brick when Eddie won the belt, left RDA just standing there. UFC 200 milestone. MSG debut for UFC - which helped Khabib come to the scene with his "Let's go with your chicken" promo. Brock came back. Cain came back. Ronda came back. Jones as well... before leaving again. Nate's clinic on MJ + the "Fuck that" promo leading into Conor drama. Conor becoming double champ at MSG. Black Beast went 4-0. Cerrone went undefeated the entire year at WW with 4 wins in a row... there's so much more. Even side circus like the CM Punk experiment happened that year. GSP come back rumors also started sounding more serious back then, so there was always heat and something to stay tuned in for.

It was an incredible year. Seemed like there was always something happening.

 

[HI SCOTT NEWMAN]

I loved 1995, 2008 and 2009. So hard to choose.

 

[Pizza Werewolf]

Not this one .