UFC on Versus 3 March 3rd

[Svino]

I'll be happy as long as the Facebook prelims get rebroadcast by pirates.

[MMA_scientist]

^ right, should happen.

I think it will probably help the UFC. It is sort of insane how niche MMA still is... We had a group of friends over last night and the subject of jj came up. Out of the 10 people that were there, not one of them had any clue what gracie jj was. One guy had heard of Royce Gracie, "oh I saw a video of that when I was in high school." It was basically the equivalent of "when animals attack III" to that group. Even after an explanation, the blank stares were unsettling. I NEVER tell anyone about my bjj training obsession and MMA watching obsession. Because now, I might as well be watching pro wrasslin... but it slipped out because someone caught a glimpse of my somewhat expansive bjj dvd technique library.

Anyway, my brother, who is 21, will watch the occasional UFC with all his buddies. It is much more normal for them. So the facebook is probably a good move for the future, because the 30+ crowd either is already in or never will be. The 40+ crowd is out.

[Luke]

Matt Riddle pulls out of UFC on VS 3 fight against Matt Brown -- http://ow.ly/3Hehz

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[Luke]

^ right, should happen.

I think it will probably help the UFC. It is sort of insane how niche MMA still is... We had a group of friends over last night and the subject of jj came up. Out of the 10 people that were there, not one of them had any clue what gracie jj was. One guy had heard of Royce Gracie, "oh I saw a video of that when I was in high school." It was basically the equivalent of "when animals attack III" to that group. Even after an explanation, the blank stares were unsettling. I NEVER tell anyone about my bjj training obsession and MMA watching obsession. Because now, I might as well be watching pro wrasslin... but it slipped out because someone caught a glimpse of my somewhat expansive bjj dvd technique library.

Anyway, my brother, who is 21, will watch the occasional UFC with all his buddies. It is much more normal for them. So the facebook is probably a good move for the future, because the 30+ crowd either is already in or never will be. The 40+ crowd is out.

The only person I know that watches MMA besides me is my little brother and he only watches Fedor fight or freak shows(Toney-Couture, Kimbo,Lashley,Lesnar etc)

[poopoo333]

My 70 year old Grandpa enjoys watching MMA. But he doesn't have a facebook.

[MMA_scientist]

The older guys that I know that like boxing basically see MMA as a glorified toughman contest. Thety are like Bob Arum, they think grappling is gay and uncivilized, like a bunch of wild brazilians speaking pig latin going Baraka on guys or a bunch of thunderlips' using their size to and wrasslin to cheat...

[Mr. IWS]

Do you have to create a facebook account to watch the fights?

[poopoo333]

Yeah.

[Mr. IWS]

Yeah.

Cool, thanks.

[poopoo333]

Make sure you send me a friend request and poke me <3

[Luke]

Do you have to create a facebook account to watch the fights?

Im watching on my ladies account if I can figure it out

[Mr. IWS]

Make sure you send me a friend request and poke me <3

No

[SPX]

You may be onto something about older folks Scientist, because I find that younger folks--at least younger males--pretty much universally have at least heard of the shit. Even if they haven't heard the term MMA, if you clarify it by saying, "you know, like the UFC," they go, "oh, yeah yeah yeah." Plenty of girls I've talked to at least have seen it in passing on TV, too.

As for my crew--of which there are only a few--my buddy Kris is my age and into MMA, my buddy Brian used to be into it and still watches it occasionally, and my friend Anna used to watch it regularly but now has kind of drifted away. So I have no close friends at the present time who are NOT familiar with MMA, but I have in the past, so it can happen. Even then most of them at least knew what it was.

When I used to work at Unisys and was stuck in a room in a call center with 60 other people I would hear other guys bring it up after events and shit, too.

[Luke]

Johny Hendricks vs. Paulo Thiago added to UFC on Versus 3

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[poopoo333]

Hendricks wins.