I've been watching that stuff since #1.
like junkyard, I like the early years. Really was no holds barred, no bitting and no eye gouging were the only rules. Most of the fighters wore no gloves, and the ones trained in martial arts wore ghi's (I understand why it's better not to wear them, but it just seemed to add a little style or class to the fights). I loved watching the small Gracie beat these bigger fighters with the grappling. I was kind of disappointed when he retired, because people were training to be able to grapple, and I would have liked to see him fight people with his same tactics. Still you gotta give the Gracie family props for that style of fighting, and "introducing" it to a wider audience.
They have added more rules in order to be able to fight in more states, and get to a bigger audience. Still good fighting, just as long as they don't "soften" it up anymore.
One of my favorite fighters is Dan
the beast Severn awesome dude. I like the ones considered "good guys" who "seem" to have respect for the fight game and especially their opponents, like; Couture, Shamrock, Hughes. I don't like ones that "seem" to have no respect or are @ss
like; Nick Diaz, and Tito Ortiz, though for some reason I did like Tank Abbott even though he was a s
t talker. No doubt that some of them this is a manufactured image, could be Liddell is an @ss and Tito is the nicest guy in the world, who knows.
Love both Couture and Liddell, but I'm gonna have to go with Liddell, he just brawls, and Randy is getting up there in age.
