Your Age At UFC 1, When & Why You Started Watching MMA

-November 1993 - 10 years old
-Grandparents house with my uncle and grandpa
-Pirated copy recorded on VHS
-Blown the fk away with the violence
-Took Karate and went into boxing almost months after
-Could never watch another sport again: hockey, football, baseball
-Got beat up because I thought I could fight after watching my first UFC lol
 
I was 4 when ufc 1 came out, didn’t watch my first ufc until I was 6 which was ufc japan with my older brother who was a 4x state champ in wrestling. He was very interested in becoming a mma fighter in the late 90’s and I looked up to him so much. Our bonding was always on the mat wrestling or at home watching all the UFC’s we could rent at blockbuster. Fast forward to now and my brother has never had a MMA career but has coached plenty of current fighters and wrestled on the same team with the likes of Steve Mongo, Derek Brunson, Lew Polley, to name a few.


It’s safe to say the bond I have with him is a strong reason why I’ve been a ufc fan since childhood and never skip an event
 
Ingjr said:
I was 37. Went to a few "Tough Man" contests in the early 80's late 70's. It was a welcome transition.
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Thank god..i thought I was gonna be the oldest..
I was 26 and living in the states.
Started Gracie jiu-jitsu at 30..
 
1994-1995 my uncle sat me down and we watched UFC 1,2 and 3 on vhs. I was 5
 
I watched UFC 1 in grad school live at the local campus bar. The bouncer was a martial arts fan and ordered it.
 
I was 12. Watched ufc 2 on ppv when I was 13. Been a fan since.
 
Walked out with Pat Smith for UFC 1, was 20 years old, been watching since.
 
I was 3.

I first watched an event back in 04' when my brother introduced me to the sport, watched a bit of TUF in my teens, started seriously watching around 2010
 
I remember back then people talking about ninja shit in a cage and my much older cousin told me about leg locks, which I thought was badass.

Ofcourse, I was much too young to watch it, but since I turned 20 I've been a fan.
 
I was 3. Also a bonfide generation 1 tuf n00b.
 
i was 5 or 6 my dad had an illegal cable descrambler "the black box" you could hook it up and it would play all the ppv's all the cable channels and all the porn channels. He would take it out only when there was a boxing PPV or to watch some UFC I think there was some other UFC wannabe organization at the time too it wasn't just UFC there was some other organization as well.

Anyways yea we watched the first one and the second one later on then my dad put the black box away because he thought the cops were onto him
 
6 years old, had no idea fighting even existed
 
CorpseApathy said:
Writing a paper on MMA for my return to college, any feedback is appreciated, and might make it into the final draft.

I was 12 when the UFC debuted, but didn't started watching until I was maybe 14-15 years old. I used to ride my bicycle to the local, "16, 000 Movies" store to rent the events on VHS, a franchise that was eventually purchased by Blockbuster.

I had taken Shotokan Karate, and was taking Tae Kwon Do when I started watching. Like most fans back then, I had never seen any real NHB or Vale Tudo style competitions, but a lot of boxing and other TMAs.

It was more than just watching a bloodsport, (although that was definitely part of it) but I was also interested in seeing how all these martial arts and their practitioners would stack against each other. Watching Gracie tie up all these larger, tough fighters showed me how easy it could be to neutralize years of training, rendering all that work basically useless.

Watching the sport evolve from it's infancy has helped tremendously in understanding the sport as it exists today.
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I was about 38 LoL..was doing judo and tkd before the UFC came out...
 
Nov 93 so I was 12..

Just fascination when I was a kid. Watched until maybe like 96. Then I got back into the sport with Tito/Ken 1.. Pretty much watched faithfully ever since..
 
My situation was exactly the same as that of the TS. I was rooting for Pat Smith because I was training in TKD at the time, and "knew" it was the best style. I was buying VHS tapes from SunCoast at the mall, and various videos I saw in Bkack Belt magazine.

The Karate Kid started it all, and Blood Sport changed my life.

Does anyone else remember Future Fights on PPV? Woon was their star. I believe the fights were staged, but not sure.
 
bubbleboyjones said:
I had almost same story as you except I attempted to watch UFC 1 as a kid live sort of like how i tried to watch the Spice channel back in the day. I gave up and found out a skinny jujitsu guy won the thing. I then got a hold of UFC 1 and then watch the next few live via a friends pirate box. I stopped watching during the dark days of the late 90s when it got banned and then got a Japanese bootleg tape of Pride Grand Prix in 2000 so I could watch Gracie vs Sakuraba(I got the tape because I heard Gracie lost a fight and had to see it). That was my intro to Pride and then I started back into MMA.
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OG streamer right here

Well done
 
Ha to be honest I was an old school pro-wrestling fan.

You guessed it I heard about MMA from when Ken Shamrock first came to WWF.

Watched the some early UFCs then I got bored. Came back again around early 2000s and also got into Pride then I was hooked. At the time I was in college and also wrestled and did some martial arts myself.

Around mid-late 2000s WWE went to shit so I switched permanently. Still access old school wrestling shows and video games from time to time for nostalgia.
 
I was ten and I loved combat sports and van damme movies. I had taken tae kwon do before then and me and buddies would always box or spar for fun starting in about middle school. Whenever I went to blockbuster there was nothing more interesting to me than finding out who won which matchups against who on the cover. That was about 95-96 and I have been hooked ever since. Though it seems wme want to unhook me and throw me back..
 
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