Impact thread for December 2, 2021 - Snap back to reality

[Sky]

After all, he's only human

 

[Chris]

Maybe he lives close too, a lot of fighters live in or near Vegas

 

[Sky]

Maybe he lives close too, a lot of fighters live in or near Vegas

I heard a bit about fighters staying near Vegas because there's looser restrictions so MMA feds hold a lot of shows there

 

[Sky]

But IDK shit about fuck when it comes to MMA

 

[Sky]

So don't hold me on that

 

[Chris]

UFC has shows in Vegas literally every weekend almost bc that's where their Performance Center equivalent thing is lol

 

[Sky]

Pretty much most of what I know about MMA comes from reading old Observers

 

[Chris]

But historically the Nevada athletic commission was much more lenient about MMA so that's why shows were always there, New York didn't even fuckin' legalize it as a sport until like within the last 10 years bc it was a big deal when they got to run MSG for the first time lol

 

[Chris]

I don't really think many states care anymore, if any. But Vegas has became home by now so that's just where the fighters go

 

[Sky]

My favourite tidbit is they jobbed out Dan Severn in UWFi so if he beat Royce Gracie they'd say "ah, we told you our guys were better"

 

[Sky]

This was before they made him NWA champion

 

[Chris]

Early MMA was wild

 

[Chris]

Half that shit was literally just worked like pro wrestling or at least believed to have been bc it was never proven lol

 

[Sky]

They made him NWA champion on a non-member (SMW) show because it was literally the last date before then-champion Chris Candido left for WWF and they didn't want an awkward vacancy

 

[Sky]

Half that shit was literally just worked like pro wrestling or at least believed to have been bc it was never proven lol

RINGS was worked early, Pancrase apparently was not though there's some mixed info