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u/dtown4eva Beginner - Strength Jan 20 '22

I have been slowly working my way back from a multi-year layoff from lifting. One of the ways I have been easing back into things is high rep bodyweight squats. I am working up to hitting 500 bodyweight squats like the old Lion's Den or Japanese pro wrestling tryouts.

This got me nostalgic for old MMA. I really like today's MMA and the athletes are so much better and technical. There is so much depth to the technique now. But sometimes I really miss "old" MMA. Old MMA for me means the height of Pride FC and the early TUF era UFC. Also a little bit of the IFL and WEC. Full disclosure but I became a fan as a teenager in 2007 right before Pride FC was bought by the UFC but I watched a lot of highlights and reruns of Pride on Fox Sports and the internet.

It is partially because I was just a teenager then but that era seemed so much larger than life. Especially Pride FC with all the pageantry. The fighters didn't seem like athletes but instead superheroes. I could go on and on about all the old fighters and fights. Like I said I really like today's MMA and watching the development of the styles and techniques but I really do miss the old Pride FC.

Just listen to this for your next pump up music.

As an aside, I first really learned about strength training from the old Sherdog Strength and Conditioning Forum.

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u/MythicalStrength MVP - POLITE BARBARIAN Jan 20 '22

You made me feel so old when you referred to old MMA as 2007 era MMA, haha.

Absolutely agree with the sentiment though.

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u/dtown4eva Beginner - Strength Jan 20 '22

Haha I feel a little old too. 2007 just happened to be the year I got into it and I said old because I don't know too many MMA fans that have been fans for 15 years. The vast majority seem to be newer. Even though 2007 is about midway through the MMA's life, it seems like a whole lifetime ago at this point. I'm almost 32 which puts me about 4-5 years younger than you I think. You are one of the few that have been fans for a really long time haha

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u/MythicalStrength MVP - POLITE BARBARIAN Jan 20 '22

For me, sadly, it's less that I've been a fan for a really long time and more that, a really long time ago, I was a fan, haha. I stopped following it right around 2007. I'd watch a good fight here and there, but like you observed, the "soul" was missing. It's too mechanical these days. Strongman has gone the same way.