UFC 92. I remember because I had over 30 people at my house that night, every single one f them casual fans, and I spent a month hyping up how Wanderlei and Nogueira were going to DESTROY their opponents. Like they had no chance against these legends. For many of the people there that night, the only MMA fights they'd ever seen were Wand vs Rampage 1 and 2 at my house a week prior, and various highlights of Wandy and Nog wrecking shop in PRIDE.\
I explained that Nog had NEVER, EVER been finished and someone like Mir would have no chance. I remember going around myspace and posting this gif of Wandy to everyone's comments - holding up 3 fingers and slicing his throat, as if to say he was gonna kill Rampage for the 3rd time.
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When Wand got knocked out by Rampage I almost got in a fight with my douche cousin because he thought t was funny to rub it in, in front of a bunch of chics lol. The room was totally silent when Wand got KO'd except for him laughing at me haha. I got seriously emotionally invested back then. I blew up and was like "YOU DON'T KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT MMA, OR BOXING EVEN, YOU CAN'T EVEN NAME FIVE FIGHTERS RIGHT NOW" haha... Hey I was like 18, soooo.. douchines excused... at least I wasn't wearing a Tapout or Affliction shirt
That memory will always stay with me as the reason why I won't tell casual fans who I think is gonna win before a fight. It never seems to work out. Every time I'd have people over to watch my favorites fight, they'd get wrecked. EVERY TIME haha. My friends are like a curse
I had like 20 people over for Fedor/Werdum also. Only a few knew who Fedor was, but the ones who did knew he was the GOAT and had seen a few of his fights live with me on TV, like the Affliction shows and the Rogers fight. They were shocked, the room was silent.. Then all of a sudden a random kid goes "I thought he was supposed to be the best ever".. I was like "he is, who is your favorite again?" He goes "Forrest Griffin"... I just didn't even bother.
But 92 was the worst.. Cuz of the amount of people I had and how much I'd been hyping up Wand and Nog. Couldn't believe 2 of my heroes got destroyed that night at and I had specifically thrown the fight party for allllll my friends to watch those 2 guys. Haha. Typical