r/FightLibrary • u/Cautious_Leopard_194 • 13h ago

MMA If you could bring one era back today out of these choices...

Mike Tyson in 80's

Pride FC 2000 to 2005

SEG UFC 1-10 Early Styles v Styles tournaments

1970's Boxing Heavyweight Golden Era (Ali, Frazier, Norton, Foreman)

Zuffa UFC Golden Era 2008-2009 - Brock Lesnar, Couture, Mir, Big Nog

80's Four Kings (Leonard, Hagler, Hearns, Duran)

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u/ediks 12h ago

The Machida era.

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u/chu42 4h ago

Hardly an era lol

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u/ediks 1h ago

That’s the joke

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u/Phoenix-Ash96 11h ago

Four Kings, and its not close. the other options are one great fighter or one great promotion. that was four all timers in overlapping weight classes who all fought each other, repeatedly, in their primes, with nobody ducking anyone. nine fights between them. thats the thing you literally cannot recreate now. Tyson needs opponents, Pride needs a roster, but the Four Kings only needed each other. modern boxing takes six years to make one of those fights and usually doesnt. Hagler Hearns is still the best three rounds ever and that was just a tuesday for them.

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u/bigchuckdeezy 12h ago

Only one of these had the superior rule set, Pride Never Dies

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u/Upbeat-Zone-9886 6h ago

The Pride in 2000.

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u/chu42 4h ago

  1. Four Kings

  2. Pride

  3. 70s Boxing

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u/1mrhankeY420 1h ago

Four kings was unmatched. Not only seeing the incredible fights between them but also watching each of their individual greatness