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And here we go!!!!!!!!!!” – Mike Goldberg, announcer for the UFC.
I really like the UFC, but I’m a fairly new fan to it. I got into it starting December 2008 when Stephen invited me over to see it at his house. Over 2009, I slowly learned more and more, and then when the latest season of the Ultimate Fighter came out, it really kicked in for me at a new gear. Then, I learned about Spike TV’s show reviewing the best 100 fights in UFC history, and then the DVD set with all those fights got released.
Money –> Amazon = Done.
Description:
For 16 years, the Ultimate Fighting Championship has been the gold standard in combat sports. Now you can re-live the 100 greatest fights in UFC history with this once-in-a-lifetime collection. Featuring all the greats of the Octagon, from Royce Gracie and Chuck Liddell to Matt Hughes and Randy Couture, this set contains the most dramatic, explosive and memorable battles of the UFC in their entirety from 100 down to the greatest UFC fight of all time.
Since I’m not a UFC expert, I can’t comment on its value to someone who’s been a long time hardcore UFC fan. Also, in the US, I think you can just watch most of the UFC fights via cable, ppv or something, so maybe it’s not that big of a deal to have it compiled in a set.
For me though, since I’m mainly in Vietnam, and internet is a lot slower here, it’s a great starter set. I’m not sure if all the fights are really that great, but I can see that certain fights are in the set because of their importance as landmarks in UFC (for example, the Royce Gracie fights are boring to me, maybe due to presentation, but it’s good to see them there) history. I’ve seen other reviews state that fighters the UFC no longer likes get discriminated against in the set, such as Frank Shamrock. Nonetheless, I am happy with the set, and would recommend it to anyone who’s like me, not a long time UFC fan, but really interested in the subject material.
Other notes:
- I like Joe Rogan and Mike Goldberg as the announcers. I think they have good voices and do a good job of educating the audience (which is lacking in most sports announcing today). At the same time, when you start hearing them a lot, especially in succession as on the set, you can pick up certain things, like Goldberg and Rogan often using definitives and agreeing with each other, almost blindly. “Absolutely, Joe”.
- Video quality and audio quality are quite good. No issues for me here.
- Many more of that fights are from the last 4 years versus the previous 10 years. One reason is that there’s more frequent UFC events now than when the UFC first started. For the most part, I don’t like many of the older fights that are featured, anyway- I don’t know if I’m wrong, but I assume the skill level has gone up more and more, so I assume the competition level of more recent fights is tighter.
- I wish there were more extras to the fights. For most fights, you just get the actual fights- a lot of footage before, between rounds, and after the event is cut. It’s hard to learn more about the fighters like you do during the actual UFC events.
- 8 DVDs, over 16 hours of fights. It’s long. This is good, as it’s a a set that retails for $99.97.
- The DVDs have no extra, just fights.
- I’m not sure the 100 –> 1 countdown is the best way to organize the fights, especially when you have to consider that a lot of fights are a part of a series of battles, so you’ll watch them all out of order and learn who won previous fights inadvertently.
- Amazon Link: http://www.amazon.com/UFC-Ultimate-100-Greatest-Fights/dp/B002GU65M4/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1262537962&sr=8-3
