Which fighters still make you excited to watch?

Long-time veterans? Champions? Up'n'comers? Relatively undiscovered or undiscovered gems? Foreign? Domestic? etc...

Not many champions intrigue me

Mostly veterans I've watched grow like pat curran or pitbull freire or international stars.

Some up and comers keep me excited but its mostly surprise each event as to who performs at their peak levels.

mma is dead. boxing is dead.

humanity is dead.

MuayTyson wrote:mma is dead. boxing is dead.

humanity is dead.

5/5 this is how posting should be done

I get excited to watch the new breed of fighters. The modern era of MMA fighters have so much surpassed the skill level of guys 8 to 10 years ago. The "PRIDE never die"-kinda guys need to face reality, it's dead. MMA has evolved so much since then.

Alexander "Storm" Shlemenko

Rampage Jackson

Mariusz Pudzianowski

Good thread, I will have to think about it.

I really wanted to see Goiti Yamauchi but he shit the bed pretty bad. Since then I have lost a lot of interest in MMA.



In boxing I like Golovkin and Lara.



Not very many fighters left.

I gotta admit Pudz gets me going. He´s one of few fighters who still has the bigger than life aura.

I always enjoy an exciting fighter

Well I'm surprisingly pumped for ROAD FC, Hellboy Hansen and Minowaman will be life time favorites. WHITEMARE FIGHTING SOON TOO! I'm holding out on to some old favorites, there's not a lot of recent fighters that have wow'd me honestly.

Agreed with TeamJohnPerretti's choices as well.
Shlemenko is the best thing out of Russia right now, and you could argue he's going to be the biggest Russian star on American soil to date in MMA. Putting Tito in a body bag will so fun!

Rampage is finally allowed to have personality again and you can tell he loves it, Bellator giving him the opportunity to bring that PRIDE FC lvl hype once more before his retirement. That is much appreciated from me.

Pudzilla! I remember seeing this guy in strongman way before I was a deep MMA fan, couldn't believe it at first but honestly if it weren't for him I'd have never found KSW. The presence this guy brings to MMA can only be positive.

The soulless create-a-fighter-esque boring mother fucker doesn't appeal to me, too much of this in modern MMA.

Mamed Khalidov

past PRIDE FC fighters only with the exception of some such as JDS, Alex Gustafsson, Shlemenko,

I get very excited for fighters with a high level kickboxing base like Manhoef and Hunto.

Dagwood wrote:I get excited to watch the new breed of fighters. The modern era of MMA fighters have so much surpassed the skill level of guys 8 to 10 years ago. The "PRIDE never die"-kinda guys need to face reality, it's dead. MMA has evolved so much since then.

  

Any fights WW or under. I enjoy the smaller weight classes. Most stacked divisions in MMA.

TehPackage wrote:Any fights WW or under. I enjoy the smaller weight classes. Most stacked divisions in MMA.

I like the opposite, MW and up.

I like watching good striking/kickboxing & good submission wrestling but I watch the UFC anyway.

Everyone knows you're not a real fan if you don't watch mighty mouse play in teh cage.

I for one wouldn't buy a card if i don't see at least 1 woman fight and/or below mosquito weight fight.

For me, it's just mostly the old PRIDE guys these days and a few overseas prospects that are untapped by ZUFFA.

Oh and the Diaz bros.

Stockton, motherfucker.

Kyoji Horiguchi
Doo Ho Choi
Marcin Held
Justin Gaethje
Mark Hunt

Hunt
Shogun
Diaz Bros
Badr


...... fuck thats too little

Dagwood wrote:I get excited to watch the new breed of fighters. The modern era of MMA fighters have so much surpassed the skill level of guys 8 to 10 years ago. The "PRIDE never die"-kinda guys need to face reality, it's dead. MMA has evolved so much since then.

That actually looks like ur talking serious Dag , if i didnt know u better.

Dorch wrote:

Dagwood wrote:I get excited to watch the new breed of fighters. The modern era of MMA fighters have so much surpassed the skill level of guys 8 to 10 years ago. The "PRIDE never die"-kinda guys need to face reality, it's dead. MMA has evolved so much since then.

That actually looks like ur talking serious Dag , if i didnt know u better.

And I heard you might be gay and were becoming a priest.