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Old 05-04-2009, 02:50 PM   #17
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I admit, I don't follow that closely. If it's on Spike I will watch, I watch the Ultimate Fighter reality show etc... but I don't much about the sport. I have no idea who are champions in what weight class (I am sure I can look that up) who the big names are, the guys who are on the rise, vets on the decline.

How would you tell someone new to the sport to get more familiar with it?
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Old 05-04-2009, 03:02 PM   #18
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Check out this thread lot's of great ideas for starting out and getting into UFC.
My personal opinion is watch The Ultimate fighter series, and UFC unleashed on Spike lot's of great fights and it helps get familiar with some of the best fighters from past and present.


http://www.operationsports.com/forum...owing-mma.html
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Old 05-04-2009, 03:09 PM   #19
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Spike TV is a good bet, especially if you have some sort of DVR. They have The Ultimate Fighter show, but they also have UFC Unleashed, which is a show that replays memorable fights, and they will often replay UFC events that happened a few months prior. For example, I know the other weekend they replayed UFC 94 which happened at the end of January. I think this stuff usually airs on a Friday or Saturday night.

Spike also occasionally has live cards. The next one is The Ultimate Fighter Finale on June 30th. For a good site listing upcoming cards, and rumored fights, check out:

http://www.mmaweekly.com/rumors.asp

MMA Weekly also has top ten lists for each weight class, so you can get a good idea of who the top guys currently are.

Just keep plugging away at that stuff and you'll start to get a handle on it. Watching the PPVs also helps. If you don't have some buddies that want to pitch in for one, there's usually a lot of sports bars that will show the PPV.

If you need more help with anything more general like a fighter's history or specific techniques and strategies or whatever, you can also check out sites like Sherdog.com for their Fight Finder, Wikipedia is also a good resource, and people have posted tons of videos on YouTube, which is especially helpful in learning the various submissions and whatnot. And feel free to ask here.

There's a lot of people in the same boat here learning the sport.
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Old 05-04-2009, 03:58 PM   #20
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Thanks for the tops fellas.
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Old 05-04-2009, 04:00 PM   #21
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Re: Someone new to UFC

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I admit, I don't follow that closely. If it's on Spike I will watch, I watch the Ultimate Fighter reality show etc... but I don't much about the sport. I have no idea who are champions in what weight class (I am sure I can look that up) who the big names are, the guys who are on the rise, vets on the decline.

How would you tell someone new to the sport to get more familiar with it?
Here are the champs:

Brock Lesner - Heavyweight
Rashad Evans- LHW
Anderson Silva- Middleweight
George St Pierre- Welterweight
BJ Penn- Lightweight
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Old 05-04-2009, 04:03 PM   #22
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Thanks for the tips and info guys. i didn't know there was another thread pretty much like this. Can lock it up if you like.

Thanks again.
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Old 05-04-2009, 04:06 PM   #23
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Re: Someone new to UFC

This site has a searchable database of videos -- you can search by fighter: http://www.mmalinker.com/

Found that thanks to an MMA head from another forum... I got some research to do myself.
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Old 05-04-2009, 04:08 PM   #24
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Posted this in Dookie's thread also.

You can search this site for video on each fighter... they have pretty much everything: http://www.mmalinker.com/
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