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shardian:
--- Quote from: northerngames on September 26, 2007, 09:55:23 pm ---yeah there getting more and more like wrestling now.
when it first started their was no weight catagory's and the only rules were no using teeth or eye poking but everything else was a go.
that is why alot of the origanals that were great stopped doing it becuase the rule's they made went against alot of there specialty moves and went against what they were taught when that opertunity is there for the taking.
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Nothing will beat Keith Hackney's two memorable bouts. For those of you not knowing, He made a guy tap out by pummeling him in the nuts, and also broke his hand using it as a club against the 6'8 600 lb Emanuel Yarborough.
I still wonder if nut guys crew met Keith outside after the show...they should have.
I need to watch the first ten or so again some day, just for fun.
ChadTower:
I hated the UFC at first... just way too unsafe, guys were getting permanently injured on a regular basis. Not cool. It's a million times better now and is actually far safer than boxing and football.
shardian:
--- Quote from: ChadTower on September 27, 2007, 09:01:25 am ---
I hated the UFC at first... just way too unsafe, guys were getting permanently injured on a regular basis. Not cool. It's a million times better now and is actually far safer than boxing and football.
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Now I will say I am NOT a big fan of the arm bar. Royce Gracie pretty much broke the arm of everyone he fought.
ChadTower:
That was mostly because guys weren't educated in submissions and didn't tap until it broke. Fighters now are a lot more aware that once you're locked in there is very little chance to escape before you are injured... so there's no shame in tapping rather than sitting out for 3 months. Guys rarely get their arm broken anymore and when they do it's their own fault.
shardian:
Current UFC fighters also owe all of their skills to the original UFC system. That system of pitting every style of fighting and various sizes of competitors against each other allowed the evolution of a dominant style of fighting to come about. Now everyone fights nearly the same.
I just feel the fights were much more exciting back then. Due to the contrasting styles, size issues, etc. Who would have thought that when Dan Severn was pounding Joyce Gracies head in with knees that it was just a ruse to slip an arm bar? How about when as soon as Big John Started the fight, Pat Smith sprinted across the ring and planted a foot in the other dude's chest and sent him flying into the fence, then put him in a guillotine choke. Remember when Ken Shamrock was pissed that everyone doubted his submission skills, so he said he would not throw a strike against Dan Severn and win... and he did? That was ---smurfing--- awesome. Every fighter now is identical. That is BORING.
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