Are us TUF noobs now the seasoned longtime MMA fans?

[Pastinaca1]

Pride's highest recorded Buyrate is Pride 32 with 30,000 buys.

https://www.tapology.com/search/mma-event-figures/ppv-pay-per-view-buys-buyrate

To put that in perspective, Ortiz Vs Lidell 3 did 40,000 buys and Bellator 120 did 100,000 buys.

I like Pride, Igor vovchanchyn is one of my favorite fighters and Sakuraba Vs Gracie might be the most important fight in the history of MMA but stuff like this is absurd. Pride was good for what it was and does deserve a bit more credit then the UFC gives it and to be fair, it does have the highest (alleged, the Yakuza might have pappered the gate) live attendance in MMA history but it was not perfect and it certainly wasn't better then the modern current day UFC.

The technical aspect of the sport has evolved massively in the last decade. Just look at BJJ.

I don’t care about the numbers of buys and stuff like that. I care about the quality of the show, and Pride was much much better.

UFC’s production is amateur hour compared to Pride’s. Pride at the time had most of the best fighters in the world.
And the fact that MMA was not as evolved back then was actually kinda positive, because we saw a lot of unorthodox stuff going on and it was fun to watch.
Today almost all the fights look identical . It is like all fighters only use the same 10 techniques.

 

[ryun253]

Found this random forum in highschool. Had to lie about my birth date to make an account

 

[corrupted]

I'm afraid that if you have to ask....

 

[Lethal_Striker]

According to some people in a thread I was in earlier today no, we're old has beens who don't pay attention to the sport anymore, just yearn for the old days, and are no better than filthy casuals.

Blabbering on about the glory days of Pride, you get the idea.

 

[corrupted]

If you didn't rent UFC VHS tapes at blockbuster then you are a noob .

I got my 1st UFC tapes from the same guy I got my porn from. Same quality too. LOL

 

[DizzyYeahYeah]

Starting following the UFC and TUF in 2009. Then started watching Strikeforce just before the UFC bought it and Bellator in 2012.

Forever a n00b.

 

[Goatenstein]

No.

 

[Egészségére!]

 

[Normot]

Nah. I'm still 12. I'm not 30. I'm still gonna make it in life and BJ Penn is still the GOAT.

 

[Little Mac]

It is crazy to think TUF is consider old and not new any more.

 

[MMA_Enigma]

I first got into MMA when I watched TUF 5 on Spike TV.

I thought it was awesome and I got all my friends to watch it and started ordering PPVs at my house.

I basically missed Pride. I came in at the end of it, and went back and watched a whole bunch of Pride fights and highlight reels on YouTube.

That was almost 12 years ago.

I order every pay per view and I trained off and on for a few years but never really got very far. I was taking training more seriously right before Covid but then Covid happened and my gym is shut down, probably forever.

I remember the hype behind Rashad and Rampage when they sold a million PPVs.

And I’m on Sherdog every day.

Are most people here from TUF?

I sure as hell didn’t watch UFC 1. I was a baby then.

God i remember the beginning tuf days, season 3 is what got me started. All the pride vets on here shit all over us. Now we're the old guys and people who came in with Conor call people casuals on Twitter lol

 

[MMA_Enigma]

I don’t care about the numbers of buys and stuff like that. I care about the quality of the show, and Pride was much much better.

UFC’s production is amateur hour compared to Pride’s. Pride at the time had most of the best fighters in the world.
And the fact that MMA was not as evolved back then was actually kinda positive, because we saw a lot of unorthodox stuff going on and it was fun to watch.
Today almost all the fights look identical . It is like all fighters only use the same 10 techniques.

Dude you're dead on. The fighters now have been training every discipline since they were teens so it's almost impossible to stand out skill wise. It can make for a lot of evenly matched fights that aren't fun to watch.. We used to have specialist. Not anymore.

 

[Poser Caust]

I am a blockbuster noob. I started watching from renting older UFCs on VHS. So I was months/years behind as to what was going on. Then I got the internet.

 

[Pastinaca1]

Guys who discovered MMA because of TUF or Brock Lesnar will always be noobs, even if they are 90 years old.

 

[ralek4grammy]

 

[John Creed]

People still watch TUF?

 

[Corey]

I first got into MMA when I watched TUF 5 on Spike TV.

I thought it was awesome and I got all my friends to watch it and started ordering PPVs at my house.

I basically missed Pride. I came in at the end of it, and went back and watched a whole bunch of Pride fights and highlight reels on YouTube.

That was almost 12 years ago.

I order every pay per view and I trained off and on for a few years but never really got very far. I was taking training more seriously right before Covid but then Covid happened and my gym is shut down, probably forever.

I remember the hype behind Rashad and Rampage when they sold a million PPVs.

And I’m on Sherdog every day.

Are most people here from TUF?

I sure as hell didn’t watch UFC 1. I was a baby then.

No

 

[TUFNewb]

The question is how many were actually filthy WWF/WWE converts since that is what Spike was doing right before UFC?

 

[CrippleWerk]

Where the Brock noobs at?

he brought us over as ex WWE fans

That was me. I wrestled for my high school and was aware of Randy Couture, Tito, Chuck and Ken Shamrock and seen a few fights but that was it. Then when Brock came over I started paying a lot of attention and I went to a Strikeforce event and that's what really did it for me. I started training BJJ and Muay Thai and have been hooked ever since.

 

[snowbro]

While having an argument about an mma fighter at work. My supervisor declared himself right because he's been watching since TUF 1. I laughed so hard and called him a TUF noob. No one had any clue what I was talking about.