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03-16-2008, 08:31 PM
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Considering I am a mma news junkie and I also buy every event I can, I would say I am a good hardcore fan.
I'm the type of fan Dana likes.
I am better than all of you.
I am champ.
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03-16-2008, 08:37 PM
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Considering I am a mma news junkie and I also buy every event I can, I would say I am a good hardcore fan.
I'm the type of fan Dana likes.
I am better than all of you.
I am champ.
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03-16-2008, 09:08 PM
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I consider myself the new generation of an MMA hardcore fan. I was introduced to it back when Royce Gracie was running through everybody, but since my family didn't even have cable growing up, I could not really follow it like I would have liked to. I grew up playing all types of sports, but mainly baseball. When I was about 7 or 8 my parents put me in Tae Kwon Do and I took to it really fast, but once again due to financial hardships, they were forced to pull me out. Then when I got to high school, my intrigue for combat sports was finally met when I wrestled for all four years of high school. Fast forward through college with hearing stories of Tito Ortiz dominating and such... I still had the interest, but no knowledge of how the game had evloved until I got my first "black box" (illegal cable). I quickly started to see what I was missing whether it was UFC, Pride, or K-1, I was hooked.
Sure, when Spike starting airing TUF, I watched week after week because it was free! It was already UFC 56, when I was finally my own man with my own job and my own place that I started ordering the PPVs (and I haven't missed one since).
I don't consider myself the casual fan however, because I am pretty much obsessed. After I watch an event, I will replay my favorite matches over and over until I have to force myself to go to bed. I log onto every MMA website I know about and blog with strangers since none of my friends are as into it as I am. I have gone back into the UFC and Pride libraries to see classic fights that I have missed. Before a PPV, if I am unsure about a fighter, I will try and find any tpe on him to see how I should pick in fantasy (by the way I average 8-9 out of 10 winners every PPV - can a casual fan consistently do that??)
So, in a similar way to how MMA has evolved, I feel like the fans have too. I even advocate for MMA (not just the UFC) saying things like, "If you enjoy boxing, you'll love MMA" or "Mark my words, MMA will be an Olympic sport one day."
I am well educated, but for anyone who really knows me, knows how much I hate to read for fun. Well, I have read the Matt Hughes autobiography and I am almost halfway through Chick Liddell's. There is no way any real "casual" fan can have as much knowledge as me on the topic of MMA.
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03-16-2008, 09:12 PM
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^^^
Too much.
Thou doth protest too much.
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03-16-2008, 09:14 PM
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Set MMA Back 10 Years
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If you're on this forum, you're an internet parasite. The lowest of the low. Thats the missing group!
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03-16-2008, 09:17 PM
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Oh I just read the rest of the posts and I'd be content with saying I am a die hard fan. Sorry about the long rant above, but like I said, once I start, I can't stop...
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03-16-2008, 09:20 PM
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Good idea - but I think the categories aren't sufficient. I'm a fan, but I don't train. I'd like to and I did MA in the past. I got a bad attitude if the counts for anything.
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03-16-2008, 09:29 PM
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If you're on this forum, you're an internet parasite. The lowest of the low. Thats the missing group!
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03-16-2008, 10:41 PM
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I don't fit into any of those categories. I've been watching MMA since UFC 1 (thank you illegal cable box). The only combat sport I ever did was boxing when I was a teenager, now the only sport I participate in is beer league softball. I'm not a Kimbo fan. My vehicle doesn't have a bed or stickers. I attend local MMA shows.
So I guess I'm a casually hardcore non-douche bag non-fighter fan who thinks the term "casual fan" (casual fanatic) is an oxymoron.
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03-16-2008, 10:53 PM
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I would watch boxing with my dad when I was a kid...maybe 5 or 6 years old. I remember the UFC coming out around that same time, and i remember my dad letting me watch it with some of his buddies, stressing that iy not let my mom find out.
I was mainly in to wwf back then, but i remember i was 12 or 13 when the whole tito flipping off the lions den thing happened, and i couldnt stand shamrock as a wrestler. I heard about tito ortiz through a couple friends who were into ufc. I watched Tito and Frank Shamrock go at it; I was in like...7th grade or something like that. Been a fan ever since
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