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Some of you guys are lying
Some of you guys are lying
Pretty much the same here, only I saw the first couple of cards in '96 when my BFF started raving about this new thing called "UFC" saying I had to watch. When I did I...wasn't impressed. Claiming to have no rules but then having rules against eye-gouging, fish hooking, etc. Jim Brown on commentary (as an amateur NFL historian I knew who he was, and I also knew at that time he was a notorious misogynist), some skinny arrogant dude beating everybody only because nobody else even knew what BJJ was, this Ken Shamrock guy being all hyped up but never actually winning anything of substance, and the whole thing coming across as the clownish sideshow it actually was. I figured it was just another fad that wouldn't last.For me it was 1993 when UFC first started, my dad and his friends would get the PPV. I watched the first few events, rented on VHS and then stopped watching or a few years and then came back around 2003 and been watching since then.
You're not kidding, Wikipedia says UFC 30 was the first card since 22 to get a home video releaseI got UFC 2 VHS from Blockbuster, rented it and really liked it and have been watching ever since, I was just renting some WWF VHS tapes from Blockbuster and the UFC VHS section was right next to it and it caught my eye, I then went back to the store a week later and rented UFC 1 VHS
Then after about a year I randomly found some bootleg VHS tapes of Ken Shamrock fights before UFC 1 even happened, so I saw MMA before UFC ever existed
I loved UFC up until around UFC 22, then after that UFC went underground and totally dark.. UFC 23-30 was awful and dead sport, then after UFC 30 it picked up again and started to get great.
Yeah UFC 23-29 was awful and you couldn't watch it for love nor money, they removed it everywhere and it was close to being finished forever. They started to do a lot of UFC events in Japan because in US it was taken off, so hard to watch it. Around that time I started to get into King of the Cage and I really enjoyed that and I used to go to King of the Cage events, the tickets were between $12 - $25You're not kidding, Wikipedia says UFC 30 was the first card since 22 to get a home video release
I don't regret missing the dark ages.
The UFC 30s is my favourite era.I got UFC 2 VHS from Blockbuster, rented it and really liked it and have been watching ever since, I was just renting some WWF VHS tapes from Blockbuster and the UFC VHS section was right next to it and it caught my eye, I then went back to the store a week later and rented UFC 1 VHS
Then after about a year I randomly found some bootleg VHS tapes of Ken Shamrock fights before UFC 1 even happened, so I saw MMA before UFC ever existed
I loved UFC up until around UFC 22, then after that UFC went underground and totally dark.. UFC 23-30 was awful and dead sport, then after UFC 30 it picked up again and started to get great.
This is what I was thinking... everyone here is supposedly 45 and go back to ufc 1 live lmao... they could just be more realistic and admit they saw ufc 1 on tape rented from a blockbuster or somethingSome of you guys are lying
I loved that era as well, it was so entertaining and so many great fighters, plus you had Pride which was awesome, it was a great time.The UFC 30s is my favourite era.