Early UFC vs. Modern UFC (dispelling the ignorance)

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• UFC
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• Rorion
• Royce
• Gracie
• Ken
• Shamrock
• MMA
• Steve
• Jennum
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[kataeb4ever]

you're trying to dispel myths...but you're just as Ignorant...

Have you ever fought? what experience do you have?

Fighting Under rules is different to fighting when people are trying to kick your groin and pull your hair...thats called REAL FIGHTING....early UFC was the closest thing to REAL FIGHTING in a sport format....TODAYS MMA is less brutal, in real life, people dont fight with Honour, they gouge eyes and stomp nuts...heck today you arent even allowed to strike the back of the head...

[DonnieHotTub]

I've taken some jiu-jitsu and kickboxing. I admit that I don't have any professional fighting experience. I'm just a fan of the sport with an opinion. My personal opinion is that the old UFC was just a step above streetfighting, which may be closer to real fighting, but it doesn't lend itself to fighter safety. This isn't streetfighting, this is a sport. Every sport needs rules in order to protect the safety of the athletes.

[DonnieHotTub]

With the tournaments, too many times we see guys coming in as replacements and winning. Look at Dream 5. Excellent event, don't get me wrong, but c'mon, Joachim Hansen came in as a replacement, beat Shinya Aoki and won the lightweight grand prix.

I respectfully disagree with you.

[alfredunhill]

I enjoy MMA today and the early days, but for different reasons...for you to say Royce Gracie was protected is complete BS....any puncher could have KO'd gracie, but props to gracie for not getting knocked out...plus you countered your own point, if they marketed UFC as a blood bath, (two man enter, one man leave) why would they want a non-striker, who would spill very little blood, as their champ? Your video makes no sense. Your only valid point is that tournaments don't work..

[DonnieHotTub]

It was marketed as a bloodbath because that's what they knew would sell the most amount of tickets at that time.

Promotion is used to market a product to the most number of people. They felt that marketing it as a bloodbath was the right thing at the right time. Guess what. It was! It worked.

Saying that the UFC was marketed as a bloodbath isn't an opinion of mine, it's a well-known fact.

[Rino88dotcom]

One of the things that made Bruce Lee Movies great was the fact that we had one good little guy beating up bigger, tougher guys. This was the same factor that made the early UFC's better. They had more character and emotional value. New UFC's have lost this spirit and soul, the charaters fighting are not as interesting as before. New UFC's have become more of a publicity stunt than the real characters we saw in the early Graci times.

[jbark61]

early ufc was alot better anybody can fight with a shit ton of rules to protect the fighters but true fighters or street fighters like early ufc are the best at what the do which is fighting

[mikebourkefan1]

@DonnieHotTub i am one of those people who believe the old NHB days were better it was a real fight and about wining or loseing a match on your terms more matches ended by submission back then now alost all fights end by SLOPPY AS HELL tko or ko from punches

[sharkfinnigan]

@alfredunhill i agree with you man, this guy is a tard

[whodahell781]

Mr. Jennum won ufc 3 not because he went in fresh but simply because he was a better fighter than harold howard. he was proficient in all aspects of his skill and as some would say he was a 3 dimentional fighter. He knew what he was doing plain and simple. he taught techniques that work on the street because he was a cop so the things he taught he used in the line of duty not to mention every instructor was a cop

[whodahell781]

i am from omaha nebraska. i trained at innovative martial arts stratagies back in the early days when the ufc was still getting started. and yes i personally knew and trained with Mr. Jennum. He taught his students that most fights a person encounters ends up on the ground so not having that ground fighting knowledge going into any fight is a very bad thing. was early ufc better than today i would have to say yes back then there were fewer rules. no groin shots, no eye gouging and that was it

[vamtheanomaly]

I stopped watching the UFC religiously when they started adding weight classes, rules and protective gear. THATS what made people want to watch it. It was also a battle of the styles. THATS another reason I watched it.

[TheSUBGAMER]

i liked ufc much more before

it was closer to street fights and it was karate vs bjj,boxing vs kik boxing etc.

now they all train mma and it aint so fun

[SteelClaw]

@renzokata yupp but guys like Lyoto machida make it interesting

[SuccessMMA]

Gracie fought Ken Shamrock in the Semi-finals of UFC I he defeated Gerard Gerdeau in the final.... the brackets were set by a random draw.... It depends on what your definition of "better" avg fight lasted less than 2 min this apeals to some....BTW I absolutely know who Steve Jennum is, lol.

[DJChaps]

Yah, I miss the old karate vs judo vs BJJ vs hapkido etc etc.

Ppl no longer go to karate dojos or the like. They go to "MMA Gyms" learn how to grapple and strike all in one? Geez.

I still watch actively, but crave a true contest among several styles. Do any organizations still exist (even with heavy rules) that feature style vs style?

[DaveTheFloridian]

I agree with renzokata