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McLovin'!!!
Career record: 176-83
Season: 55-15 (#5)
Location: Florida
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Posted by tylerlee123
When Vitor Belfort opened up that cut on Eastman's forehead was when i got hooked i was going through the channels came across that and watched MMA ever since
So, you're a fan of MMA because of the barbaric and gruesome side that it can showcase at times.  j/k That was one hell of a cut! 
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Post #16 3/21/08 8:13:20PM
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bls1919
MMA Sensei
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Career record: 155-90
Season: 48-19 (#352)
Location: Clarendon, PENNSYLVANNIA
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I cant remember what year, but the first time i saw the UFC i loved it. I remeber watching it with my dad(RIP) He was a cable guy we watched at his work. It was still in the early UFC tournney days. I remember that cause we watched a guy take a bunch of knees to the nuts against the cage, then he came back to win. And then couldnt return for the next fight. Since then i have tried to get as much MMA exposure i can in NW pennsylvannia. Hickville USA the internet is a god send
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Post #17 3/22/08 12:13:52AM
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HulkRage
Standup Guy
Career record: 129-90
Season: 40-19 (#1653)
Location: cloud 8
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98' after I seen UFC's Ultimate Brazil with both Rizzo and Belfort, I became a big fan of the sport and of those two fighters.
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Post #18 3/22/08 3:02:59AM
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gartface
MMA Sensei
Career record: 147-96
Season: 51-19 (#178)
Location: Flo-town, SC
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Posted by Aaronno9
Posted by NatedawgThaM
I'm a TUF 1ner.
I knew about it before TUF 1, but wasn't hooked till the TUF 1 Finale.
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Post #19 3/22/08 3:08:36AM
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Keeping the pimp hand strong
Career record: 181-78
Season: 47-23 (#525)
Location: Oklahoma
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Since my dad took me to UFC 4 in Tulsa. I was hooked ever since then. I will say its been crazy how much things have changed in just a few years and even more so since TUF.
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Post #20 3/22/08 3:48:29AM
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Dancing Mod With Tha HAND
Career record: 194-134
Season: 31-21 (#3708)
Location: Maryland
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From the get go. Buddy of mine recoreded it and let me watch it. Was hooked
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Post #21 3/22/08 11:17:02AM
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MondayNiteMauser
MMA Regular
Career record: 160-91
Season: 47-23 (#266)
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I was hooked when i saw Vitor KO wandy at Ultimate Brazil.........The best thing i have ever seen.
Last edited 3/23/08 10:14AM by mondaynitemauser
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Post #22 3/23/08 10:13:09AM
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Laying down the beats
Career record: 192-150
Season: 37-33 (#1810)
Location: Canada
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From UFC 1, but I slipped out of it when it wasn't being televised in Canada on PPV nor was it coming out on video. (This was some time around UFC 20-30)
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Post #23 3/23/08 11:10:29AM
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fullerene
MMA Sensei
Career record: 184-92
Season: 42-28 (#1511)
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I've been a fan since the events started. I'll date myself and admit to some former ignorance: When the UFC started I had a black belt in karate and close to one in TKD and I was a former HS wrestler. I thought the asian martial arts strikers were going to kill any of the grapplers. My logic was that it would take too long to finish a guy with wreslting (especially the kind of wrestling I knew of) and all the kung-fu/karate fighters would need to do was land one shot with the right part of their hand in the right place to cripple or kill whoever was hanging on to them. Same logic with western kickboxers and boxers vs. asian martial artists--I figured it would take a dozen or more boxing punches to finish a fight and only one karate strike. So unless the boxers could land over and over again without being hit he was going to get caught and lose.
Sounds crazy now, but I swear we could make those bricks and boards explode
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Post #24 3/23/08 11:28:10AM
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mk1630
Standup Guy
Career record: 164-90
Season: 46-22 (#993)
Location: B-lo,New York
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I somewhat knew about it before TUF 1, around the early UFC 40's, and became hooked during the show. I kept up with it from the Fight Night's and TUF's and reading results online because my parents wouldn't let me buy the PPV'S and i didn't have any money cuz i didn't work yet. My first PPV i bought was 62 with Liddell vs. Sobral and have tried to not miss one since.
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Post #25 3/23/08 6:36:19PM
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rabbit915
In Full Mount
Career record: 123-75
Season: 42-28 (#1137)
Location: Wisconsin
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Im not going to lie about my inexperience in terms of MMA.
I watched the first few TUFs casually and would miss episodes a lot. That was my first experience with it. I really lost interest in the show after that and didnt really pay attention at all to it. If i was bored i would watch some of the highlight shows on spike but thats it. I liked the sport but just didnt have the time or motivation to follow it closely.
Last fall, i saw information about P4P rankings on the front page of yahoo and looked at the list. I didnt recognize many of the names. I decided that i would start following it a little closer. I read a few news stories. A month later i went looking for a better ranking system so that i could learn more and know more about who the top names were.
And thats when i found mma playground. Its ranking system came up in the search and i didnt really like it but i saw the fantasy game. I thought, this could be fun and it cant really be that hard. Since then ive become an incredibly hardcore fan. I dont miss PPVs ever, i watch other MMA orgs constantly. I dont know what changed but i love MMA so much more than i used to.
To put it simply, the playground is what converted me to the greatness that is MMA. Thank you for creating this website.
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Post #26 3/25/08 12:31:47PM
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murphy_16
Standup Guy
Career record: 98-65
Season: 28-23 (#4305)
Location: Carlow, Ireland
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havent been a fan fo that long however im only low teens first event i saw was UFC 70 and after watching TUF 5 i was really hooked and ive only ever watched UFC 70, UFC 75, UFC 81, TUF 5&6 Finale, and have seen the last 3 UFN events and am watching next week event as well
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Post #27 3/25/08 4:14:17PM
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smky213
Learning to Sprawl
Career record: 132-91
Season: 46-23 (#1174)
Location: philly
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ive been a fan since since i saw the pride mw grand prix 03. i have been totally hooked since then. ive got over 100 dvds bout 40 ufc about 40 pride events and many more smaller shows koc, wec,strikeforce, bodog i cant even think of alot of them. plus ive also been to 3 live ufc events.
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Post #28 3/27/08 10:39:44AM
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