which fighter or fight made you fall in love with mma

[Royce's Gi]

SEVERAL different eras as well

Shamrock

Fedor

Crocop

Igor Vov

Sakuraba

Even old Pancrase-matches with Bas Rutten , Funaki, Shammy and Suzuki piqued my interest

 

[UppercutFromHades]

Rashad Evans.

 

[Paolo Delutis]

So much casualness in this thread... my heart hurts lol ..

 

[Bruce Lee666]

Honestly...


Tito Ortiz.

Tito are a Badass in his Prime!!

 

[SomethingCringetastic]

Royce Gracie made me like it, Anderson Silva made me love it.

 

[Reign Supreme]

Royce. Subbing guys twice as big.

 

[Dandy Chiggins]

Black beast versus Ngannou.

 

[mkreku]

Seeing Fedor for the first time.

I lived in a dorm at the time and this huge Nogueira fan asked if I wanted to see the best MMA fighter in the world take on an unknown, flabby Russian dude. I said sure and that was my introduction into the world of MMA: the first Nogueira - Fedor fight! Fedor played basketball with Nogueira's head that night and my friend was in tears.

 

[RockyLockridge]

So much casualness in this thread... my heart hurts lol ..

lmfao shut up

 

[RockyLockridge]

Mir vs Big Nog (the first one)
Shogun vs Machida (the second one)
Edgar vs Maynard (the second one)
UFC 100

YUP edgar vs maynard 2 was insane, that was one that where i was only watching the sport very casually, could not name divisions or champs really yet but that fight blew my mind

 

[emefer]

Giant Silva

 

[Starman]

Fedor , swinging like a killing machine with that dead pan look on his face- not even a grimace.

That’s old Fedor. Young Fedor was more balanced, a brutal ground and pound fighter with good submissions.

 

[Strijfy]

That’s old Fedor. Young Fedor was more balanced, a brutal ground and pound fighter with good submissions.

you telling me my memories now? LOL
I was more alluding to his demeanor than his fighting style. Regardless of what method he was employing at the time , he was still a stone faced killing machine.
I was watching it live back in the day

 

[Prologue]

Tyron Woodley making me fall in and out of love with MMA.

 

[blaseblase]

Pettis doing the showtime kick

 

[Neck&Neck]

ARLOVSKI

 

[Poirierfan]

After I watched UFC 1 live I was hooked. Seeing that little guy Royce tear up field, it was amazing to me back then.

 

[chiefwiggum]

The whole ufc 2 event. I didn’t see ufc 1 until years after as it wasn’t avAilable

 

[chiefwiggum]

I have no shame in saying I saw mma here and there from the start but nobody suckered me in like Kimbo. Watching Kimbo street fights made me watch more Strikeforce free fights and when they signed Kimbo it was everything for me… until he sucked but by then I was already hooked. MMA owes Kimbo MILLIONS. There has been no human on earth that brought non mma fans to mma better than Kimbo

wasn’t kimbo on elitexc long before strikeforce? I loved kimbo fights as well.

 

[Th3Sav4ge]

diego and rampage. after they got me hooked on mma then it was shogun