The Year The UFC Almost Died
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- Опубліковано 27 лис 2023
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A judge thinking WWE is real is peak alarming of the justice system 😂
Back in those days, near everybody thought it was real. That was the point. Kayfabe was still alive and the rule, not the exception.
"I've been watching WWE for 20 years, it is real... ", yeah.
Sometimes us judges just baffle me
Almost as bad as American lawmakers making laws for whoever pays them the most
Peak capitalism
I take it you’ve never heard of kayfabe.
Maybe he truly believed a dead cowboy had a brother who wore red clothes and a mask. And somehow a guy drinks beer and bears his boss up at work and is rewarded for it. Pro Wrestling is great but it’s even better when you meet someone who takes it too serious😂
@@thatboybearkayfabe had already been publicly broken for several years by the time the judge was speaking in court as referenced in the video.
@@onlycommentsonmobilelate 90’s? Not so much. And “publicly broken” doesn’t equate to publicly acknowledged. Vince only admitted it to get around the Athletic Commission. However, he didn’t start PUBLICIZING it til the mid, late 2000’s. And if the judge had been watching for 20 years by the point in question, he’d grown up during the territory days, and kayfabe never died there.
the bigger question is why did American Gladiators die
Netflix has a good documentary on that
😂
Same reason as Jon Jones...
Cocaine and Steroids
@@adipyramidadmalyeah they explain it all lol Still feel like they could come back
😂
Given the Journey of the UFC from inception to today. It truly defies all logic that it's still around. Also, it's always a blast to hear Tommy talk about MMA.
Somebody needs to make a documentary on Dan Lambert. His story is wild, and it’s hard to find a lot about him.
Don't forget that John McCain was also heavily invested in Budweiser which was one of the biggest advertisers in Boxing, his attack on MMA was just as likely to be in response to his portfolio being impacted as the reason he decided to show in public. Moral outrage plays better on the news than crying about your pocketbook.
Also, Jeff Blatnik deserves to be revered as the godfather of MMA because he's the one who broke the illusion that MMA was more dangerous than it is worth.
I went to UFC 7, UFC 30, and the first IFL.
UFC 7 must have been insane in person. Marco Ruas is one of my favorite fighters of all time and was such a savage especially at that event. 🔥
@joeldavis28 the early UFC events were awesome. Tickets were cheap. There were more fighters than fans at the events. That event was a tournament. Marco really put it to Varlens and Cuerton. Remco tapped out when he got mounted.
So if I punch someone it's assault, but if an extreme cage fighter punches someone it's entertainment. Our government in a nutshell
Man I just wanna thank you guys so much you can turn an every day person into an MMA expert with your library.
Lest we forget, it took until Sheldon Silver was removed from office and SENT TO PRISON before the UFC could hold events in New York.
Whatcha wanna bet that he has never spent even one minute in jail?
@@declamatory He actually died 2022 in a Maryland Federal Prison. But he was convicted in 2015 and didn't go to prison until ~2021 due to appeals and rulings challenging how the original conviction went down.
That guy Hazzard is such an unsung hero in MMA history. He brought the UFC back to life giving them that crucial opportunity in Atlantic City.
You guys knock it out the park with every video. From me and many others, thank you MMA On Point!
That judge has been a big fan of basketball for 20 years but he can't tell the difference between the NBA and the globetrotters.
There is no way he was watching one of the most haphazard era of wrasslin and the UFC was too brutal. Not chairshots , piledrivers or going through tables but some full mount hammer fists are too far
The judge who thought WWE was real. 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
The judge probably started watching during the territory days before the truth came out it was scripted and predetermined.
8:35
"DVD sales has halted"
A hard strike for the UFC since it seems to have started selling DVDs three month after the official release of DVDs in Japan.
You ever see a MMAOP notification and just go
“This is definitely a Tommy vid” and get excited?
Just me? Sweet.
Love it when you guys do a deep dive into the behind the scenes nuts and bolts of the UFC 👏🙏
Love this style of video. Like a behind the music type story. Keep em coming
More of this please guys. Keep up the stellar work.
As someone who only started paying attention to the sport during connor's rise, I really appreciate you guys going into the history and interesting stuff that came before.
2024 the year the UFC WILL die
Started watching in 2007 when I was 14 - crazy to see how far it's come
This is like the Old Testament of the UFC lol
What a MASTERPIECE of a video, thank you guys!
What a great deep dive shout out to those unsung heroes.. Tommy will forever be the voice of MMA on point 👍
I would love a full length doc on this. Even though I probably know most of it already it would be great.
Tommy you are the absolute best at these deep dives and you should be the only one to do them! So how long until MMA ON POINT starts their own promotion? I mean you guys have a wide collection of background knowledge and you all have a different point of you. I think you guys could do it the right way.
I agree I kind of shy away from the other guys but Tommy is the man no offense to the other guys I’m sure there is people that like them as well
TOMMY MAN UR THE MAN!!! HOPE U WILL BE IN THE UFC COMENTATOR TEAM SOME DAYY!!!!!!
I love the history videos they put out
4:30
WHAT? What an absolute joke these men are from senator McCain, at the time to all the other incompetent people. 🤦♀️🤦♂️
Love this stuff. So many fans wont have heard this story.
Great vid guys. Keep it up!
Thanks for the informative video ❤
During the dark ages of MMA, while the UFC was getting banned from most states. The banned states start having their own MMA promotions like King of the Cage in California.
judst wanna say thanks, have a sociology assignment due in, needed to use an example I knew lots about to explain a deviancy amplification cycle, this video unknowingly explains a cycle very well
What a great role model for his son! This is brilliant
Great production
Great vid
The Jim Ross and Triple H joke 😂🤣 hilarious
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I kinda misjudged the title of this video, I thought that you were gonna recycle some of the content that you've talked about before, I don't mean it negatively since you've gone in depth so many times and covered every possible aspect of the sport, or so I thought... Yet again you guys managed to share nuggets of information and lore that I've never heard before, the work y'all have been putting in is really really underrated and despite having a million subs and a decent amount of views and recognition, I think that the channel is under appreciated. So yet again thank you guys for the amazing work 🙏
How are you guys coming up with such high quality vids so often??
they have a highly trained team of walruses helping them
And a room full of monkeys on typewriters
Guys, “XVII” means 17, not 27…
MMA Right On Point 💯
No shade on other members of the MMA On Point team... but Tommy is the OG GOAT.
Do this style of video on other events!
I love getting comments deleted and wondering what word got flagged or why it got deleted constantly on bigger channels. It's super fun and makes me want to comment.
I remember seeing UFC as a 90s 00s fight fan it was my cousin that had all the VHS and DVDs from some weird place called eBay 😂 so I asked why they never came out often and he said they never can find a place to hold the bouts which is pretty bad fucking ass I thought
Ufc 27 writes it down XVII instead of XXVII
Alabama gave em a place to fight when nobody else would..... they never came back😢😢
And here I am, having just attended at msg! Great story
2:13 😂😂😂 omg !! Why !! Why god why !! All hell , dam you, Why!!😂😂
4:26 Did anyone else see what that neon green sign said? Lol
Big John tells some food stories of the early days
S tier video
I learned a lot
Shoutout uncle Tommy 😂
That judge loves him WWE, it's still real to me damnit lmao 🤣
You guys are doing G-d’s work on this channel with this spectacular content. On another note, videos and information like this is another huge reason we need a MMA hall of fame. A place ppl can go and learn about the sport just like any other.
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@@ubcroel4022 G-dizzle's*
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Let’s get the real story on why McCain really wanted to snuff out the UCF
Take me back.
I still think Lorenzo saw something he liked and kept it out of Vegas till it was cheap enough to pounce on and use his connections to legitimize and grow.
Pride never die
I use to rent them at blockbuster
The only thing you didnt really get into was how Lorenzo changed his mind so that early ufc event would fail allowing him to swoop in and buy
Most MMA fans today don't even know who Jeff Blatnick is in the context of the UFC or MMA. Big thanks to Jeff for his contributions in making MMA a legit sport.
Top ten Tommy toe hold characters… watching rather than working… ehh retail sucks right now anyway
Trump supported UFC too, even hosting two shows at his venue, Trump and Dana are good friends, also to this date trump coming at massive ufc cards
Storytime with Tommy Toehold? pepeCozy
gee, I hope it's ok!
"UFC 27" Shows 17 in Roman Numerals (XVII @13:04)
Some how I’m never heard this
Damn I really wish prelims were still 2 rounds that would be cool
To what dame are you referring?
thanks@@declamatory
If its not tommy in a mma on point video i aint watching it simple as that. 🙅♂️🙅♂️
XVII is 17... not 27
With mass CTE syndrome, I sorta regret sending McCain strong disagreements 😓
Well where danna white come from then if he ain’t the owner?
Dana is the president of the ufc not the founder
He became the president of the ufc when zuffa started running the ufc
Ofcourse Tito Ortiz had to be in the thumbnail
*A former president
It’s funny how Trump wasn’t mentioned about the saving the company also.
Some schmuck *
Why do we die?
Shout out Buffalo
As a NY resident, I’ll forever hold that unforgiving grudge against Pataki for acting like a tyrant in the midst of that mess.
ANd how will that ever affect him?
So if I punch someone it's assault, but if an extreme cage fighter punches someone it's entertainment. Our government in a nutshell
They try to band something that can give power to the people teaching someone to defend themselves from all threats person or government and the other reason they wanted it band because of money it’s all about money. Someone in boxing or something was whispering in those congressmen ears it all go back to money and control
Respecc Sen. McCain but I just find it weird that legislators barely take the time to look into things before formulating an opinion that becomes a law.
BRING BACK FIGHT FRONT!!
It should be noted that a lot of the legal combatants of UFC/MMA were doing so on behalf of boxing.
They didnt want boxing to have competition in the fighting marketplace.
Wasn't Rudy Giuliani supposed to be in Building 7 during the World Trade Center event on September 11, 2001, instead of being videoed on the street running away from it?
WTF?
Doesnt matter but 27 is XXVII not XVII
Can someone tell me I'm not crazy. Didn't Tommy do a video on the history of martial arts and it all lead bs into Karl Gotch or something?
13:02 that's 17, not 27.
XVII would be 17.
XXVII would be 27.
Still cant believe they got trump showing up to these events
it is definitely not just about fighting now. now its just the republican national convention with fights. bill burr absolutely nailed it. nia burr is awesome.
Helen Yee at 12:00 😮 😳
If UFC don’t settle the lawsuit then 2024 might be the year it dies
At this point it SHOULD die
Dana White is literally the worst thing to happen to MMA
WHAT lawsuit? Got a link?
They settled of course 😢😢😢😮
is this channel now the unspoken mouthpiece of the ufc? sure looks that way
8th.
How can anyone with testosterone be against MMA?
Wasn't Donald Trump involved in saving UFC? Or did that come after the period this video covers?
First like!!! Yeah
So if I punch someone it's assault, but if an extreme cage fighter punches someone it's entertainment. Our government in a nutshell
Are you restarted
Porn is also only legal due to a loophole being categorized as art rather than prostitution.
In some states mutual combat is legal, that's how Kimbo Slice and Masvidal started with unsanctioned fighting.
So if I tackle someone it's assault but if an NFL player tackles someone it's entertainment. Our government in a nutshell.
See how stupid that sounds?