U F’n C Expertise (or UFC vs. Wrasslin)

This was a great lightweight bout

http://tkohub.com/leonard-garcia-vs-chan-sung-jung-wec-48-video

I have tried to get into UFC/MMA before. I liked the really old stuff when it actually was ultimate fighting and you had guys with two totally different styles going up against each other like a guy like Shamrock or Severn up against some bar brawler, a sumo, or a guy into jiu jitsu. Now guys are too similar and it’s all about ground and pound.

There are tons of best of vids on places like youtube so see if any of those spark your interest. It’s different to wrestling where you like different guys but they are all part of the same show. I tend to only ever watch the one or two guys on the card I like and have no interest in the other guys that fight.

I think UFC is something you either like or dont like. Its an event more than anything else similar to when boing was big. There are people who really enjoy alot of boxing (I used to be one of them, not so much anymore) and others who like it when they see a good match or a big personality and get bored when its someone else. UFC is the same way. You can watch a match with a violent KO and get all excited and then get bored with it after two more events when nothing cool happens. So my guess is if you dont really care for it on first viewing you wont get into it later on except for the occasional super fight (ie something involving Lesnar if he ever returns).

Im a fan of both but have grown a bit bored with UFC because its oversaturated on TV and PPV. Ive been to PPVs for both and both are fun to attend live. The funny thing with UFC is that the WWE and Tough Enough is indirectly responsible for their success. It was the idea of tough enough that got the ball rolling for Spike to put on the Ultimate Fighter in 2005. They correctly assumed that if they put it on after Raw they would have a built in audience which they did. The show was awesome (probably the best starting point actually if you never saw UFC) and just hit left and right with unplanned angles that caught the attention of people in a similar manner to the old Austin/Tyson angle in that people talked about it after they watched it and drew friends to the show. They did a live special that was a total home run. It was drawing from the pages of the old SNME shows in that people were getting a PPV type show on free TV so you get a huge curiosity factor that tunes in. Bonner/Griffen is probably the greatest fight in the history of the UFC (certainly the most exciting) right out of the pages of Rocky with two guys just getting totally beat up and constantly getting up and going forward. It exploded from there.

I actually think if WWE ran Tough Enough in a similar way by taking veterans of the indy scene instead of green guys and put them through weight training and more advanced wrestling training and then having two guys a week work matches with the weak link being booted or both guys being booted if it sucked that it would do wonders. Plus you would have a guy that is actually ready to work Raw at the end of it instead of a guy so green that he cant do a FCW match and have it air on TV without being completely edited. That was a big reason why TUF worked. The guys were all thrown on PPV and TV specials after the show because they were good enough to compete.