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Re: How about them fights
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09/14/23 10:16 AM
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. MMA has gotten more technical and I still like it....but I miss the slugger days! Dan,Don,,Chuck, Stephan,Forest,Tank,Randy,Wandelie,Rampage....just to name a few. Always exciting fights. Those were the glory days of MMA. I miss them too. I've been following the UFC since the early/mid-nineties. Remember when it was banned in most of the country in 97 thanks to the late, great senator John McCain? Absolutely If you guys get either FightPass or ESPN+ you can watch every old UFC that ever happened
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Re: How about them fights
[Re: shanemoss]
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09/14/23 10:17 AM
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Don't remember what year but I would rent the videos from western auto. Very brutal back then! Those days, they fought till they lost! Break your hand but still win, you fought again with broken hands! Gracie was the king, but I just didn't care for jujitsu style of fighting. Obviously very effective, but I like the stand up battles personally. Times change. Lol. Kinda like when I rode bulls in the 90's and 2000's vs the caliber of bulls today! Those guys were monsters in the day, but these fighters today get a hold on them and it's over. One FC is an Asian fighting championship and they are brutal on there. Full contact knees to the head on a grounded opponent Wild time
Matthew 7:6 KJV
Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine....
-OFBA, NTA, FTA, TTFHA-
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Re: How about them fights
[Re: shanemoss]
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09/14/23 10:31 AM
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Don't remember what year but I would rent the videos from western auto. Very brutal back then! Those days, they fought till they lost! Break your hand but still win, you fought again with broken hands! Gracie was the king, but I just didn't care for jujitsu style of fighting. Obviously very effective, but I like the stand up battles personally. Times change. Lol. Kinda like when I rode bulls in the 90's and 2000's vs the caliber of bulls today! Those guys were monsters in the day, but these fighters today get a hold on them and it's over. I believe it was the Gracie family that made MMA popular in the US in the early nineties. Royce Gracie was one tough guy. When Matt Hughes beat him Matt was bending Joyce's arm at the elbow way past what was normal. Royce showed no emotion or pain whatsoever. I've also see Royce deliberately break opponent's bones after they tapped. A fighter could get away with that back in the early days of UFC. I never cared for him because of that crap. The first years there were no weight classes and very few rules; no biting, eye gouging or groin strikes and that was about it. Like you said, a fighter had to keep fighting and winning until the end to take top honors.
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Re: How about them fights
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09/14/23 11:11 AM
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Never cared for the MMA fights. I prefer the sweet science, boxing. I never preferred boxing. Maybe it's my add, but I always thought it too long and got bored with it. MMA just more action packed/fast paced/more explosive....in my opinion. MMA fighters don't usually fare well in a ring and boxers usually don't fare well in the octagon. Just as anyone would expect. Bout like a football player on a soccer field I guess. MMA has gotten more technical and I still like it....but I miss the slugger days! Dan,Don,,Chuck, Stephan,Forest,Tank,Randy,Wandelie,Rampage....just to name a few. Always exciting fights. I guess the problem I have with MMA is it's the roughest, toughest guy who usually wins. Where in boxing it's requires more skill and expertise. I admit I get bored when you have two boxers who don't have enough power in their punches to break eggs. I guess that's why I like the heavier classes who are capable of one punch knockouts.
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