Thread: Which was your first UFC event that you saw and how did you find it?

Mine was UFC40 just after it came out on DVD a colleague at mine is a kickboxer and has been in volved in various other martial arts for years and he let me borrow it, i loved it for Kens theatrics in the build up and then what a tough man he was in the fight taking the beating he did - there was no quit in him!!

Since then i dont think i have missed a UFC and prefer it to boxing now which is my sport. I spend half of my life on UFC.COM and Sherdog and found the learning process of the sport great, all of the different diciplines that you develop a basic grasp of.

How and which UFC (or pride i guess, i got into Pride only about a year ago and some of the fights there are truely amazing, i would say my favourite fight of all time is Lil Nog vs Shogun)??

UFC 1 when it first happened.

Came out on video at blockbuster and my Dad would rent them and we'd watch them.

Pretty much watched them off and on every since.

Can't remember which but it was one in the 60 range, hated it, watched it again hated it ...got another one out on rental quite liked it, then liked it more and it's all down to sticking it out and learninga a bit about what's happening and not writing it off.

Will never take the place of boxing for me but it's a close second now, just staerted reading the Iceman's Autobiography, love it !!

Watched the 1st few on videos, thought this was completely brutal and loved it. Very dangerous back in the day when ya could basically do anything ya wanted, kicks to the head when opponent down etc,

It was good to see a relatively small guy go up against a behemoth and utalise his style to overcome the bigger guy ! Royce was superb at this of course.

[QUOTE=Mattyhitman;845214]Watched the 1st few on videos, thought this was completely brutal and loved it. Very dangerous back in the day when ya could basically do anything ya wanted, kicks to the head when opponent down etc, QUOTE]

From watching alot of UFC and then moving over to Pride this took some getting used to, the head stomp isnt nice to watch but knee's to a grounded oponents head i liked and hope it comes back in (which Dana has recently hinted he hoped it would long term).

last year on espn I watched the 1st ultimate fighter series with coutore & liddell training forrest griffin, stephan bonner, diego sanchez, kenny florian, chris lebanand and josh koscheck.

I got completely hooked & couldnt wait for the 2nd series so i downloaded them all, i am on season 7 now & I watch UFC most nights, first event i watched was the show in manchester UFC 105.

i am slowly downloading all the old shows so will keep me busy for next couple years probably

used to watch a bit of pride when shogun rua, wanderlei silva and cro cop were tearing it up

UFC 1 The beginning go Royce!

Ufc 1 too here, I was enthralled with the idea of a kung fu man fighting a sump, a wrestler against a kick boxer and so on, damn it did change a lot since then hehe.

UFC 30 Ortiz won a Ko in 2nd round i think i was only 10 i was like What the hell Cage fighting! lol

Originally Posted by Nameless

Ufc 1 too here, I was enthralled with the idea of a kung fu man fighting a sump, a wrestler against a kick boxer and so on, damn it did change a lot since then hehe.

Skip season 10 the heavy's make for a rubbish season!

The first time i saw UFC was actually on VHS, someone bought me an old one. Is was the one were the Russian guy chokes out Tank Abbot in the final.