Your First Time watching UFC.

ufc 4:Severn vs Gracie
 
Watched the first season of tuf culminating with the Forrest griffin Bonner fight, kinda watched tuf here and there but didn’t get super into it until mcgregor Diaz. Call me a casual pleb I guess
 
I didn’t watch my first UFC event.

i read about it.

UFC 1 it was in a penthouse (might have been playboy) mag (In Australia) as an article in 1993-94 (I was 16)

did not watch the event till 2002
 
With my uncle and a few cousins... Ufc 3. We couldn’t believe how that skinny dude could submit guys much bigger. I remember watching Kimo vs Hoyce like it was yesterday. The channel who broadcasted ufc events in latin america stopped doing so a couple of years later. I stopped watching mma completely from 1996 until 2004 when I got hooked again thanks to TUF1. I sent emails to a few of the guys, Bobby Southworth and Alex Schoeanuer kindly answered.
 
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Came to the game pretty late . Saw a few random fights at a mates place but nothing special... Then I saw the promo and build for DC vs Jones 1 and I was hooked.
 
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It was Randleman's debut my uncle had one of those illegal Direct TV cards I always went over to his house to watch boxing and he invited me to watch UFC, but it was a few years before I really started watching.
 
UFC 2 - had no idea what it was just watched for the novelty of no rules fighting. Wasn't that impressed as I didn't really have an appreciation for MMA yet. Started really getting into it after watching TUF 1 ( like many) n the Leben - Kos fued ......... then the epic finale fight with Forrest got me hooked after that
 
Classmate in High School of mine at the time was training under Ralph Gracie. The week of UFC 1, it was all he was talking about in school. We watched it on a black box, and I thought it was corny. A glorified Bloodsport the movie, just in real life. But I was a HS Wrestler and had been training Judo since I was 6, so the Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu captivated me. Yet still, I didn't take a true interest in the sport, though I watched all of them.

I started attending KOC, Gladiator Challenge, etc.. events around 2002 or so because I had friends that were fighting, but didn't get into the sport and start liking it until I went to Fairtex SF and saw guys training there that I was seeing fight live.. Faber, Terrell, Castillo, Bucholz, Irvin, Smith, Militech, Nick.. shootz Shields and Melendez were teaching MMA classes at the time there. Then I stopped by AKA around that time thinking it was a kickboxing gym, and didn't realize I was watching BJ Penn train.. not knowing who he was at the time, beside being a Braddah Hawaiian like myself.

Was a fan of the WEC, Pride, more then the UFC for a long time. Then the merger happened and I lost interest, as I was around the scene training and felt like MMA lost the aura of being a Martial Art. Today I'm a fan of fighters I know personally, not a fan of any org. I rather watch a regional fight, even a PFL card, over a UFC or Bellator card. My wife and her girlfriends still go to most of the UFC cards on the West Coast, and she's the one who keeps me informed about the who's who of those two orgs, beside those in the gym telling me.

I will attend a UFC or Bellator fight if I know someone on the card personally, but beside that, I pass. I will say if Zhang, McFarland, DJ, Cody, McKee, Khabib, Daniels, Khamzat, Soriano, or Nemkov is fighting, I'm probably going to watch their fight on tv, not necessarily the other fights on the card though.
 
Ufc 2 on ppv. My uncle was into boxing and was always down to watch a fight. Needless to say that I liked it.
 
I was a 10 year old and saw Joe Son on the news being beaten in the balls by Keith Hackney. I was hooked after that.
 
agibmxmma said:
Classmate in High School of mine at the time was training under Ralph Gracie. The week of UFC 1, it was all he was talking about in school. We watched it on a black box, and I thought it was corny. A glorified Bloodsport the movie, just in real life. But I was a HS Wrestler and had been training Judo since I was 6, so the Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu captivated me. Yet still, I didn't take a true interest in the sport, though I watched all of them.

I started attending KOC, Gladiator Challenge, etc.. events around 2002 or so because I had friends that were fighting, but didn't get into the sport and start liking it until I went to Fairtex SF and saw guys training there that I was seeing fight live.. Faber, Terrell, Castillo, Bucholz, Irvin, Smith, Militech, Nick.. shootz Shields and Melendez were teaching MMA classes at the time there. Then I stopped by AKA around that time thinking it was a kickboxing gym, and didn't realize I was watching BJ Penn train.. not knowing who he was at the time, beside being a Braddah Hawaiian like myself.

Was a fan of the WEC, Pride, more then the UFC for a long time. Then the merger happened and I lost interest, as I was around the scene training and felt like MMA lost the aura of being a Martial Art. Today I'm a fan of fighters I know personally, not a fan of any org. I rather watch a regional fight, even a PFL card, over a UFC or Bellator card. My wife and her girlfriends still go to most of the UFC cards on the West Coast, and she's the one who keeps me informed about the who's who of those two orgs, beside those in the gym telling me.

I will attend a UFC or Bellator fight if I know someone on the card personally, but beside that, I pass. I will say if Zhang, McFarland, DJ, Cody, McKee, Khabib, Daniels, Khamzat, Soriano, or Nemkov is fighting, I'm probably going to watch their fight on tv, not necessarily the other fights on the card though.
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Have a fight yourself. Be it boxing, kickboxing, mma etc. You will likely regret not doing it unless you're really shitty like CM punk.
 
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