Dana simps like to use the excuse that the company was "broke" back then. Curious how they couldn't pay they fighters a respectable wage because "the company was bankrupt" yet they seemingly had just enough money to line Dana's pockets with 1.2m dollars that year. Dude had a 5 million dollar annual salary from day 1 (at that time). Meanwhile he had these men fight for free, and it was rare to see undercard fighters breach $5k...
@@duramaxdad Someone else would have taken it over or started a new organization. They may have even paid their fighters better. We'll never know what could have been. The UFC isn't the end all be all of mixed martial arts
People forget that there was a time when Diego Sanchez was one of the best in the world. Dude fought for a title and had wins up two weight classes. The best of which has to be Nick Diaz.
People gotta respect the fact that Diego is a pioneer imo in mma like Stephan bonnar. The guy was 17-0 at one point and has the heart of a lion 🦁 much respect to bro
I miss the old beginning of the UFC ppv with the Gladiators. As soon as the song from Stemm would play you knew that was the war music and some shit was about to go down. Pissed off the neighbours a few times with the surround sound cranked on Ufc nights. Good times
I was 23 years old when season one of ultimate fighter came out I am now 43 years old It trips me out to this day every time I watch Diego Sanchez in season one Here’s the thing....How in the hell did this kid Diego have it figured out back then that it was important to incorporate yoga with his MMA😮 And how did he know how important it was to do ice punches after training None of those other guys had it figured out back then except for Diego To this day this is something you hear Joe Rogan talk about how important yoga is and how important ice plunging mixed with sauna treatment is important to recoup your body 💯
Wow. I remember watching this live and I didn’t remember the stoppage being that quick. Wow that was way too fast. Diego probably would’ve won anyway by Florian deserved more of a chance.
When that nobody Alex guy told Diego that 'he' was a nobody, I had to laugh. Here we are almost 20 years later, and time (being the great equalizer) has made Hall Of Fame level fighter Diego Sanchez who has given us some of the best early UFC fights into a respected and remembered champion, and made that other dude into forgettable mud. LOL
8:07 , 5’9” Diego (who has fought as light as 145lbs) had no problem calling out 6’4”, 205lbs Bonner (who probably cut a lot to make 205lbs). Cool that they became good friends later in life. RIP Bonner.
The first two seasons were real shitshows since they went the route of "reality TV" hard with competions to pick fights etc which would take its toll on fighters. Let alone making Diego fight more times than any other fighter. It was brutal compared to what it is now.
You think convincing guys that not being paid to do a job is a good thing? Wild that so many MMA fans are promotion fans, and not actual fans of the fighters.
Man, the drunk night of them reminded me of my time in the military(I'm from Europe, we have to go for 8months, no war, just training and learning to have discipline)... We did soo much shit to and with each other... A bunch of young drunk guys, all physically fit.... We (not only once) fought 1st VS 2nd floor.... Just 4 fun....
Met Diego at the MGM Grand during the Chuck Lidell Randy Couture 2nd fight.... he was a really nice guy...the only thing that shocked me was actually how short he was....haha....granted I'm 6'5 but I expected him to be taller for some reason
@@ongbruhlmao oh no doubt. I learned that when i was 19 years old....I had just gotten to the fleet in the Marine Corps and I did a fun wrestling match with another Marine almost half my size, and he quickly showed me what wrestling was all about. I couldn't believe it honestly. But then I started training in the Marine Corps martial arts, and about a year later we did another little match but that time I beat him. It was awesome. we're still friends to this day, over 20 years later.
Love Diego,s fighting style. He and Chris are both killers. Hell.... Lotta good guy's on this season. Forrest, Stephan, Koshcheck... Even though I don't like Josh
34:20 Holy shit, it’s spinners! I haven’t seen those bitches in forever. I still think they’ll make a comeback down the road. My drug dealer best friend had them back in 2002. He used to slam on the brakes constantly when he stopped so they would spin longer.
This seems like ages ago. All I remember was the look Diego gave when someone (Florian?) chose him as his opponent. He went into straight "I don't know who you anymore and I'm going to eat you alive" mode to the person. I remember thinking "oh man you messed up."
I haven't seen this season but I like the specific fighter's view, you see the same show though different eyes. It's like the three blind men trying to discribe a elephant story. Three differnt opinions kinda true but all different.
Wrestling was, is and will always be the king of MMA. Strikers never had a chance. A wrestler can always become an elite striker, a striker cant become an elite wrestler.
If that were true then we would see plenty of examples of wrestlers becoming elite strikers, not just the 1 in 1000. And GSP is an example of proving "strikers can't become elite wrestlers" wrong. He became the best MMA grappler at 170 despite his base being striking.
What I like about TUF is Sam H's entrepreneurial spirit. His secret store that he and Peter Welch will open after the TUF champion fights. Sam knows about honor, he speaks about it after having his Town Hall meeting. Another important takeaway is the actual fights now same team members are fighting each other. Sucks that we never thought this would happen so telling you what issue we are having. Like having a torn labrum.
