In the beginning, there was no way to see good physical violence without getting drunk and hitting on a biker’s old lady. And then God created mixed martial arts.
First, you had to find a bootlegged video tape (they had those back then) from someone who knew someone who had the tape
Sometimes you were able to find these tapes at places called video stores.
Then along came the Internet. But don’t get excited, dial-up speed was too slow to allow streaming video of any kind. The Internet allowed you to purchase many of these videos and wait for delivery to your house.
DVDs were invented and you were able to sometimes find these at Best Buy or Circuit City (they had those back then).
This period lasted longer than it should have.
And then Dana White decided to put it on TV as a reality show!
Very rapidly we moved to having real fights on regular TV.
Shortly after, Dana decided to have a fight every 4 and a half days. And now you can’t find a seat at the sports bar because Tapout shirt guy needs to ask fifteen questions about why the fighters aren’t body slamming.
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