Over the years I have been unfarly critizing MMA as being "boring" and "no different then gay porn" even though I literally only watched about 5 matches. I have been watching more MMA lately and I'm here to admit I was wrong and should have given it a better chance. So MMA and all it's fans, I, Vladimir Alvarez, (using my real name for once) am sorry and apologize.
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Welcome to the club! Enjoy! There's plenty of space! And YES! One of my favorites, and it's exciting as hell to watch if you've developed even a remote appreciation for the ground game and how sophisticated it is, and even moreso if you've trained in it yourself and can relate to what's happening... UFC 87 - Demian Maia vs. Jason MacDonald. Fight was ****ing AWESOME! Easily in my Top 3 ever. (And I've seen all 150 UFC events, and all 68 Pride FC events and all the other ones...)
I kinda hate watching fights I've neve seen before on YouTube because you have a good idea on when it's going to end and the "Holy ****!" factor is kinda...well, gone. (Almost) Try torrents or something that streams...that way nothing will be given away by the duration of the YouTube video.
Also, out of curiousity, what made you change your mind? (I've converted about 5-6 dozen people to now MMA addicts...was as simple as answering some fairly basic questions that people usually get really bad or horribly wrong answers to)
here's a list to get started on, look up all these fights: diego sanchez vs clay guida don frye vs yoshihiro takayama (not the most technical fight but it was a ****ing slugfest) forrest griffin vs stephan bonnar 1 (this fight basically single handedly saved the UFC) wanderlei silva vs quinton jackson 2 mauricio rua vs quinton jackson matt hughes vs frank trigg 2 anderson silva vs rich franklin 2 randy couture vs pedro rizzo 1 chuck liddell vs wanderlei silva paul kelly vs paul taylor fedor vs crocop wanderlei silva vs kazushi sakuraba 1, 2 and 3
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Going by matches that every MMA fan has seen. Matt Hughes vs. Frank Trigg 1 & 2 Matt Hughes vs. BJ Penn 1 & 2 Stephan Bonnar vs Forrest Griffin Spencer Fisher - Sam Stout II Gomi vs Diaz Wanderlei v. Cro Cop I and II Wanderlei vs Rampage II The just too many, but thats to be expected. Theres plenty of good fights out there, you just have to find what you like. Same as boxing.
I like I said I've been judging it off of like 5 matches i've ever watched. I've been hearing about it almost everywhere and have been thinking why is this better then boxing? I saw some matches and it totaly sucks. So I just started watching some fights Spike TV had on the other day (I cant name any of the fighters) and saw some pretty good fights. Then I went on youtube and just typed in some names of MMA fighters that I knew of and started watching (youtube doesn't bother me). So I'm still looking for some good fights to watch but from what I was watching I horrably misjudged MMA.
GSP - Matt Serra 2 GSP - Matt Hughes 3 GSP - Frank Trigg Anderson Silva - Rich Franklin 2 Anderson Silva - Chris Leben Anderson Silva - Dan Henderson Dan Henderson - Michael Bisping Robbie Lawler - Scott Smith 1 and 2 Robbie Lawler - Melvin Manhoef