Average Joes who appreciate the growing sport of MMA

Okay, i am a huge boxing fan, but have grown to love MMA as well. Average Joes should take interest in combat sports because we need to know the art of combat to protect ourselves when nothing is available to us, also it is an innate quality in all of us to want to see who are the best fighters out there with fighting spirit, they demonstrate throughout the chaotic violence discipline in training, motivation, lack of fear, and tenacity to reach to the top and become champion of their domain, or you can just see it as Alpha Male macho stuff. I been watching fights since the pride days, way back in 2001. Here are the legends of the previous generation. This is backstage to fights in the now defunct PRIDE organization held in japan, it was truly in my opinion the greatest mixed martial arts organization to date, now being held by UFC, however i have to say the presentation of PRIDE and its fighter roster was very entertaining and unique. Here are videos for all of you to enjoy, back in the day. Remember the great Fedor said that he was nothing special, he trained hard with his average genetics and made the most out of his abilities, so he is the super average joe, see we have it in all of us fellow joes.



Here is Alistair Overeem having fun with quinton rampage, playing game of their video game characters. For those that don't know Alistair will be known soon enough within 2011 or as early as 2012 here in America if he solidifies himself by winning a few more fights, he has potential. However what many do not know is he has been in the fight days back when he was very young, and a lot lighter. You will notice his physique from then to now, it is impressive.




Overeem now holds championship belts in K-1, Strikeforce (now bought by the UFC), and Dream. He has had his fair of losses, but to come back and improve beyond many peoples expectations is impressive to say the least.

Here is another video of the legendary cro cop back when he was in his prime, and rutheless, #2 pound for pound fighter at the time, fighting top ten opponent Josh Barnett, for spot to be the number one contender to face the king of all fighters in MMA at the time Fedor Emelianenko.




Here is the rematch of Wanderlei Silva vs Cro Cop. Here Cro Cop has grown as an MMA fighter coming out of K-1 and the heavily undersized Wanderley would not get his way like he did the first fight, tough tough guy nonetheless.