This Year in UFC History - 1997
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- Опубліковано 11 лип 2023
- In celebration of the UFC's 30th anniversary, take a look back at pinnacle years in the Octagon's existence.
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Almost never see Frank Shamrock acknowledged by the UFC
Happy Anniversary to the JUST BLEED guy!
“I wanna be the championship.”
-Tito Ortiz, 1997
Lol he wants to be an inanimate object.
😂😂😂. Goddamn that's good.
😂😂😂😂
UFC fighters are the best at articulating their dreams
0:19 that guy should be in the UFC hall of fame
Frank Shamrock was a fucking beast.
Facts! Him and Tito at UFC 22 was my favorite fight for years. Shame we didn't get to see him continue fighting in the UFC during his prime, left undefeated in the promotion.
I remember watching UFC 1. I was in the 3rd grade and i was frightened by what i saw....this is the best sport of all!!!
Yes, it was very scary with no rules. Now a sport, and still good, but doesnt compare to the early UFC's, where you really were scared
Yeah i still have UFC 1 on DVD its crazy how far its come!
The fucking Just Bleed guy they had to put him in here lmao 😂🤣 perfect
Man's a legend
Randy looks too skilled for that year wtf 😮, double leg takedown transitioning into rear naked choke was superb
Was thinking the same thing. He looks like a modern MMA fighter.
Couture was more well rounded in 1997 than most UFC heavyweights and light heavyweights in 2023.
all the shit he was doing was so advanced. even the head butts to the occipital lobe from doggy lolol
@@lowlowseesee The ol' donkey punch head butt!
@@NaturalLanguageLearning when Joe Rogan called him the best heavyweight ever, he was actually right. All opponents look totally mismatched.
Randy the man back in the day would just grind his opponents apart.
Bruce Buffer is proof that if you keep practicing your craft, you will improve and become excellence at what you do.
The UFC and MMA really has come a long way since then, now its one of the best sport in the world🔥
It was one of the best sports then.
Does anybody know the song in background at the start?
Thanks for the news.
Such a good year for mma becoming truly mixed martial arts, we got Vitor, tito, Randy and so many more
Not to mention Joe Rogans debut
Don't forget Frank Shamrock too
Dont forget the legendary fight of Jesus Christ vs Hitler where Jesus submitted him with a flying camorra.. legendary
@@ffbear8078 Not to mention that Rogan still had his hair.
Hell yeah, I got into the Ufc pretty late (2016) so it’s amazing to see where this company has come from.
I knew about it from when I was young and training in boxing. I would trade boxing instruction for jujitsu and Muay Thai instruction (since I also wrestled in my local inter-mural and in school) just so I would be well rounded in defending myself. But I never competed in mma even after I trained in it specifically, the pay just isn’t good.
Facts me 2015
I started watching around 2008 that was best era in ufc, heavy metal style type cage fighting it was around before then but it was sorta more underground and people thought it was ultra violent
@@D-Rizzle653starting watching myself around when Chuck Liddell was champ.
Was 205 your first card you watched?
I was late to the party, cut my teeth on the ultimate fighter in 2007 whilst on a deployment. I then got a dodgy UFC box dvd set from Vietnam and watched UFC 1 to 75. I feel like I know all these fighters and their journeys. I'm more emotionally invested in UFC than any other sport in the world. Amazing what they have done with it. Bravo
Frank Shamrock was wrecking people back then, I thought he killed Zinoviev when I saw that fight.
That shit was insane. Slammed him on his head. 😵
Things really started taking a turn here. You really start seeing the fundamental foundations of what we know as UFC now. Polished grappling mixed strikes and effective use of changing levels. Not surprisingly seeing Tito, Couture and Rogan make their appearances for the first time. I remember renting these from the video store when they were converted to VHS. Truly the beginning of a new epoch of sports.
These fights are part of my formative teenage years. I have a soft spot in my heart for all these names.
It’s crazy how these fights are just snap shots from my memory. I didn’t know anyone’s names except Ken Shamrock but I remember all of their fights vaguely
@@astheskylarksings😊😊😊😊
Yup. I bought my first PPV, UFC IX in 1995.Tank Abbotts debut I believe. Love these old fights
Same dude remember there was a snapshot in time when everybody jumped to Miletich fighting systems 😂
I trained with Maurice Smith at Al Chengs Kickboxing in Vancouver Canada. Really nice Guy with Devastating Kicking Powers. He treated everyone as a Equal and seemed very humble even though he was WKA Heavyweight Champion for the past decade or so. Kick-boxers feared fighting Maurice
Stop it.
I always liked Maurice and Frank. They moved the sport forward in a massive way.
Great thing about MMA is it typically produces class act guys like him.
i love 'powers' hahah thats awesome. you must be a bad ass training with those guys
The kick he hit Coleman with didn’t seem illegal to me
Bruce Buffer progressed, too. Love to see it. The Buffer brothers are and have been an integral part of my existence as a boxing/mma fan. The fight world would be missing something if the Buffer brothers didn't exist.
yeah and the way they came up is crazy. they didnt meet til like 14 years ago or some shit lol.
@@lowlowseesee fuckin wild
One of the overall best years ever for the UFC. Amazing review. Great times.
I always forget the early onslaught that Maurice Smith survived before going on to win.
Underrated guy.
Couture is so legendary. I use to train at his Gresham, Oregon Team Quest a long time ago. he got me into MMA and the UFC like 5000 chapters ago in my life before I became an ancient human
I wonder if Coleman was on every steroid or just half the steroids 😅
Dang look at pre TRT Rogan, he looks like a kid. Couture one of the most cerebral fighters of all time. Awesome to see his wrestling showcased
I mean rogan is only 29 here
Cerebral? You mean those head butts to the cerebellum?
I still have UFC 1 on DVD! Its crazy how far its come!
I've got vhs of all the oldies and Pride bloody excellent 👌
People forget and don’t give Maurice Smith his flowers he deserves, this current gen of fans have no idea who he is and it’s a shame. He was one of the forgotten forefathers of the UFC!
Roid Fest 1997. But it was still awesome. Everyone was on the same playing ground.
That fight theme anthem that they still use is incredible. So happy it’s still in the mix.
Aw they left out Joe calling Belfort "Victor" 😂
Joe "handsome" Rogan
1997
The Birth Of "The Natural" 💪
And Randy The Natural Couture won the UFC World Heavyweight Championship three times while he also won the UFC World Light Heavyweight Championship two times
These at fantastic!! Please keep them coming 🔥🙏
It's insane how far this amazing sport has come. How advanced the fighters of today are compared to back then. Man I absolutely love this sport!!!
I didn’t know The Natural wore yoga pants before they were cool😂
I miss headbutts.
Love the old belts
i once met Mark Coleman at Pride 32 the real deal in Vegas before his fight with Fedor, after the press conference he was kind enough to go and mix with the fans waiting, i said hello and had a pic, and he was the coolest nicest fighter I've ever met. it was sad to see him fall to the great Fedor but he will be forever immortalized in the Hall of Fame and rightly so. this era was so awesome!
I met Frank Shamrock in a restaurant in Sacramento in 2000 (or maybe '01); I was leaving the bar when I saw him eating, went over to say hi and stuff. He was an absolutely cool guy too...
@@chonqmonk youre braver than me haha i would never approach a fighter when they are eating, i would respectivly at least wait till they was leaving haha in a better mood with a full belly ✌
Tito speaking mostly clearly is shocking. Pre CTE
It sure didn't take much to tire out Mark Coleman!
Huge, strong man with LOTS of muscles that need LOTS of oxygen. When he emptied his tank by not pacing himself, those muscles no longer helped him.
At UFC (15?) Coleman gassed really bad and got head kicked by Pete Williams. KO'd him clean. Still to this day a top 10-15 head kick KO in UFC history.
@@ibezzantand with shoes on, imagine the skilled fighters today wearing shoes and throwing kicks
Coleman always had cardio issues 🤷🏽
1997 was the year that the UFC World Heavyweight Championship was born and Mark Coleman became the first ever UFC World Heavyweight Champion defeating Dan Severn for that belt and it was also the beginning of the first of three UFC World Heavyweight Championship reigns to Randy The Natural Couture!
Mckarty soo powerful 😂
John McCarthy has been there since the very beginning with Joe Rogan and Bruce Buffer.
UFC 2 ,not the beginning ,it was helio vigio and barreto,2 bjj red belts in the first 1 one.
Those were the days, so glad I got to witness them first hand, miss'em desperately.
Not including Couture vs. Belfort I at UFC 15 is criminal though.
Oh my GOODNESS that Tito Ortiz fight was brutal
The steroid era
the joe rogaine era
NÃO existia os esteroides.
Existia os suplementos alimentares..
Kkkkkkkkkkkkkkk
Like now
How dare you, Coleman was clearly 100% natural.
Mike Goldberg and Chuck Liddell era
Who remembers the Tough Man contests they used to have around the country open to anyone who wants to to compete in? UFC was def materialized because of the existence of that. My dad won the Tough Man that was held in Maine.
Please continue to drop these! So sick
What UFC would be without ... the just bleed guy
People forget how much of a beast Tito Ortiz was because he’s become such a meme😂
these kind of ufc videos are my favorite
Raw and uncut!!
When Joe had hair and everyone was on juice mma heaven lol
Is there a release schedule for the This Year In UFC History series? Just getting into UFC and I've already rinsed through the first load of videos in one sitting 😅
OLD SCHOOL UFC IS LIT 😂
I forgot Randy Couture fought Ludvig Borga.
Can't deny the impact that Randy Couture and Mark Coleman had on this sport.
Tito and Vitor as well. Anytime is a good time to start being a fan of Mixed Martial Arts. Relive the past and catch-up. It's like nothing else.
Vitor Belfort. I remember that guy was one of the first phenoms that had high level skill with not only a black in BJJ but in Judo as well. But then he was also incredibly dangerous with his boxing. Athletic freak with KO power, strength and speed. He was like BJ before BJ but a Brazilian who's an Athletic specimen.
Caramba mano!! O Belford nessa época devia ter uns 19 anos e já era um monstro, nem pescoço tinha. Com certeza já fazia amor com o suco.
The just bleed guy will forever go down as a legend of combat sports
All these fighters' voices were so much higher pitched....pre HGH LOL
love the origination days of UFC. But dang, the way Coleman, Vitor, Kerr were juiced...goodness it's crazy
I took a nap during Smith/Coleman but otherwise this video is another banger, loving the series
Nice 'video Legend. Fighters" .
The first kick smith landed on Coleman was completely legal I thought
22:51 Randy Coutuuuuuuuuuure!
Young Joe Rogan brings a tear to my eye lol little did he know he would become a cultural icon
Vitor and Mark looked juiced the hecked up
They need to make where are they now episode of that just bleed guy at 0:20
I can't remember what channel it was( Napoleon Blownapart?) But I remember seeing a little segment on the dude and I believe he said he kinda stopped following MMA when they implemented the new rules and weight classes
Belfort was a war machine 😂
Joe’s face doubled in size since then. Whoa!
6:19 Left guy's gameplan was to punch so unbelievably telegraphed as to confuse his opponent to get hit anyway.
this makes me feel so old haha. great times... could hardly get it on PPV, had to get the VHS in a sketchy video store months later lol.
Hes reachin for my grapes, tryna play that violin and cheese.
Maurice Smith, what are you doing my G? Finish your food!!! 🤔
Nice cameos by Joe Rogan there
Crazy to think our sport has come so far from such humble beginnings, from being bashed by uninformed public and media outlets, to the fastest growing and one of the biggest sports / entertainment branches ever, AND YET, we somehow still haven't gotten rid of the plague that is weight-cutting. Time to fix that, everyone will be better off; the athletes, the fans, and the company.
Mo smith and pete Williams were the first strikers to shut down the elite wrestlers who couldnt strike,then along came Randy who could do it all.
back when bruce wore basic suits
Maurice Smith out there playing with his food in reference to Mark. What the fuck. It's like he was trying to sell a win to Mark with his hesitation.
モーリススミス
コールマン
シャムロック…
PRIDEやpanclassで活躍してたの懐かしく思う
Love the ol' stuff
coleman had the typical red juice glow, looking scary af
Most importantly known as The Birth of The Just Bleed God.
If I hadn't seen this (and then googled it just now), I would've sworn he was from '93, or '95 at the latest...
Headbutt , knee to head on the ground that was mma
12to6elbow soccer kick i love it
Das heutige mma ist zu weichgespült leider 😂
What’s crazy is I live in NYC and Bruce Beck is the Sports reporter for NBC channel 4! I remember watching this event in 97 while in college I became a full fan that nite! Been watching the UFC Before Dana was around! When Joe was a young man 😂
I grew up watching these on vhs and early pay per view...Old school Randy and Vitor...Coleman excellent 👌
Frank vs Tito was a great fight 🎉
I actually watched MMA back at this time but i didn't become a big fan until Chuck showed up and Chuck n Tito had their rivalry. Ths was MMA before that and it might as well be the stone age. Not a jab or leg kick in sight, no technique, i'm surprised UFC pre Chuck made fans out of anyone. It was combat that wasn't boxing, that is the only thing i probably liked about it back then. Great memories though.
Crazy fights
What a terrible standard of fighting. So glad it's evolved so much
At 0:18, the Just Bleed Guy GIF is born.
buff was still fluttering on this oooooo sounds (when he butchers couture) even then. he does that with Louisiana when he announces dustin til this very day hahahaha
What happened to these videos...when is 1998 and more dropping? these were great
Matando a saudade de assistir grandes lendas do MMA, passei a gostar de MMA vendo o Wanderley Silva no pride Fc 👏👏
The most Christian name for an event " Judgement Day"
GIVE MARK COLEMAN A PENSION
"Everybody is on steroids" Diaz, Nate
Back in the days!
Randy great champion Fighter Of year 1997
Couture, Ortiz, Shamrock : all tomato's friends reunited in the same video. Kudos to the intern who put this up.