People forget that there was a time when Diego Sanchez was one of the best in the world. Dude fought for a title and had wins up two weight classes. The best of which has to be Nick Diaz.
Dana simps like to use the excuse that the company was "broke" back then. Curious how they couldn't pay they fighters a respectable wage because "the company was bankrupt" yet they seemingly had just enough money to line Dana's pockets with 1.2m dollars that year. Dude had a 5 million dollar annual salary from day 1 (at that time). Meanwhile he had these men fight for free, and it was rare to see undercard fighters breach $5k...
@@duramaxdad Someone else would have taken it over or started a new organization. They may have even paid their fighters better. We'll never know what could have been. The UFC isn't the end all be all of mixed martial arts
People gotta respect the fact that Diego is a pioneer imo in mma like Stephan bonnar. The guy was 17-0 at one point and has the heart of a lion 🦁 much respect to bro
I miss the old beginning of the UFC ppv with the Gladiators. As soon as the song from Stemm would play you knew that was the war music and some shit was about to go down. Pissed off the neighbours a few times with the surround sound cranked on Ufc nights. Good times
I was 23 years old when season one of ultimate fighter came out I am now 43 years old It trips me out to this day every time I watch Diego Sanchez in season one Here’s the thing....How in the hell did this kid Diego have it figured out back then that it was important to incorporate yoga with his MMA😮 And how did he know how important it was to do ice punches after training None of those other guys had it figured out back then except for Diego To this day this is something you hear Joe Rogan talk about how important yoga is and how important ice plunging mixed with sauna treatment is important to recoup your body 💯
Wow. I remember watching this live and I didn’t remember the stoppage being that quick. Wow that was way too fast. Diego probably would’ve won anyway by Florian deserved more of a chance.
When that nobody Alex guy told Diego that 'he' was a nobody, I had to laugh. Here we are almost 20 years later, and time (being the great equalizer) has made Hall Of Fame level fighter Diego Sanchez who has given us some of the best early UFC fights into a respected and remembered champion, and made that other dude into forgettable mud. LOL
8:07 , 5’9” Diego (who has fought as light as 145lbs) had no problem calling out 6’4”, 205lbs Bonner (who probably cut a lot to make 205lbs). Cool that they became good friends later in life. RIP Bonner.
The first two seasons were real shitshows since they went the route of "reality TV" hard with competions to pick fights etc which would take its toll on fighters. Let alone making Diego fight more times than any other fighter. It was brutal compared to what it is now.
You think convincing guys that not being paid to do a job is a good thing? Wild that so many MMA fans are promotion fans, and not actual fans of the fighters.
Man, the drunk night of them reminded me of my time in the military(I'm from Europe, we have to go for 8months, no war, just training and learning to have discipline)... We did soo much shit to and with each other... A bunch of young drunk guys, all physically fit.... We (not only once) fought 1st VS 2nd floor.... Just 4 fun....
Met Diego at the MGM Grand during the Chuck Lidell Randy Couture 2nd fight.... he was a really nice guy...the only thing that shocked me was actually how short he was....haha....granted I'm 6'5 but I expected him to be taller for some reason
@@ongbruhlmao oh no doubt. I learned that when i was 19 years old....I had just gotten to the fleet in the Marine Corps and I did a fun wrestling match with another Marine almost half my size, and he quickly showed me what wrestling was all about. I couldn't believe it honestly. But then I started training in the Marine Corps martial arts, and about a year later we did another little match but that time I beat him. It was awesome. we're still friends to this day, over 20 years later.
Love Diego,s fighting style. He and Chris are both killers. Hell.... Lotta good guy's on this season. Forrest, Stephan, Koshcheck... Even though I don't like Josh
34:20 Holy shit, it’s spinners! I haven’t seen those bitches in forever. I still think they’ll make a comeback down the road. My drug dealer best friend had them back in 2002. He used to slam on the brakes constantly when he stopped so they would spin longer.
This seems like ages ago. All I remember was the look Diego gave when someone (Florian?) chose him as his opponent. He went into straight "I don't know who you anymore and I'm going to eat you alive" mode to the person. I remember thinking "oh man you messed up."
What I like about TUF is Sam H's entrepreneurial spirit. His secret store that he and Peter Welch will open after the TUF champion fights. Sam knows about honor, he speaks about it after having his Town Hall meeting. Another important takeaway is the actual fights now same team members are fighting each other. Sucks that we never thought this would happen so telling you what issue we are having. Like having a torn labrum.
Wrestling was, is and will always be the king of MMA. Strikers never had a chance. A wrestler can always become an elite striker, a striker cant become an elite wrestler.
If that were true then we would see plenty of examples of wrestlers becoming elite strikers, not just the 1 in 1000. And GSP is an example of proving "strikers can't become elite wrestlers" wrong. He became the best MMA grappler at 170 despite his base being striking.
I haven't seen this season but I like the specific fighter's view, you see the same show though different eyes. It's like the three blind men trying to discribe a elephant story. Three differnt opinions kinda true but all different.
Diego 'im doing yoga, im not drinking, this is spiritual '
Gets hammered
Different day, different dilemma
THE ALIENS ARE COMING DIEGO
🤣🤣🤣 it issss what it issss
Diego was an animal in this era
Sam Hoger was the real animal.
My gym gives out Sam Hoger waterbottles For free.
Why are you stating the obvious?
@@iggymcgeek730why are you wasting time replying
@@trentonwalker8602 who's time am I wasting and why are you replying on the behalf of someone else?
@@iggymcgeek730 because i can do whatever I want bot
"No more playing stupid. Do you know what asparagus is?" - Bonnar
That part makes me laugh so much.
Rip 🪦
Rest in peace Bon
Another junkie gone 🙄
❤
@@Brown87What a clown you are.
Dana getting out of a car with spinners while at the same time not paying the fighters is downright hilarious
Every one on the show is paid well.
THE biggest mistake any fighter makes not taking the other side seriously. Getting hit increases adrenelin.
His fight against Clay Guida was the first MMA fight I ever watched. Been hooked ever since. If you haven’t seen it watch it! It’s an absolute war.
First fight I ever watched too. June 2009 I believe Nate Diaz fought Joe Stevenson on that same card
Clay the human punching bag Guida.
People forget that there was a time when Diego Sanchez was one of the best in the world. Dude fought for a title and had wins up two weight classes. The best of which has to be Nick Diaz.
His fight with Gilbert Melendez is also really good too
I love how instead of giving the fighters a couple grand a fight, dana just summons the most insane speech of all time
Dana simps like to use the excuse that the company was "broke" back then. Curious how they couldn't pay they fighters a respectable wage because "the company was bankrupt" yet they seemingly had just enough money to line Dana's pockets with 1.2m dollars that year. Dude had a 5 million dollar annual salary from day 1 (at that time). Meanwhile he had these men fight for free, and it was rare to see undercard fighters breach $5k...
He offered $5k KO Bonus. This show was what made ufc make it. Had the show not been popular ufc may not have been
And he acts offended which is even more insane
@@duramaxdad Someone else would have taken it over or started a new organization. They may have even paid their fighters better. We'll never know what could have been. The UFC isn't the end all be all of mixed martial arts
The Aliens are coming Diego! best line of TUF lmao
The more recent UFC fans don’t realize the animal Diego was back in his prime. Dude fought his heart out when he stepped inside the cage.
I love how they included in the whole sam saga when he says the funny thing is I was already intending to do the right thing 😂
This is the comment i was looking for. Lol
People gotta respect the fact that Diego is a pioneer imo in mma like Stephan bonnar. The guy was 17-0 at one point and has the heart of a lion 🦁 much respect to bro
He help put Albuquerque on the map. Help put the Jackson/Wink MMA gym on the map.
@@dannyc7227 you're right. Ps my uncle touches me. Help
@@jroc6354 yup, sounds about Diego Sanchez. Hash tag Joshua Fabia. It gets weird.
@@dannyc7227it was never on the map
@@distanthope9153Jon Jones and rashad Evan’s also trained there among others, wtf do you mean
Crazy how the middleweights of back then were not that big compared to today's. Weight cutting has evolved so much.
Yepp, and there's also more money in the sport now, which also means a higher grade of PEDs.
Most weren't mw they just fought there to get on the show. Kenflo for example. Also Mike sick fighting bonnar when he was 2 weight classes bigger etc.
Chris leben and nate quarry were the only guys on this show that ever actually fought at middleweight in the ufc
Weight cutting is cheating, dangerous and should not be tolerated. It’s disgusting and deplorable.
Yea they had too, no smaller weight classes
I miss the old beginning of the UFC ppv with the Gladiators. As soon as the song from Stemm would play you knew that was the war music and some shit was about to go down. Pissed off the neighbours a few times with the surround sound cranked on Ufc nights. Good times
I love how these shows were edited together perfectly. I need one for every season of ultimate fighter please!!!
I was 23 years old when season one of ultimate fighter came out I am now 43 years old
It trips me out to this day every time I watch Diego Sanchez in season one
Here’s the thing....How in the hell did this kid Diego have it figured out back then that it was important to incorporate yoga with his MMA😮
And how did he know how important it was to do ice punches after training
None of those other guys had it figured out back then except for Diego
To this day this is something you hear Joe Rogan talk about how important yoga is and how important ice plunging mixed with sauna treatment is important to recoup your body
💯
I couldn't believe my eyes. Had this existed all along? Larone, your awesome
Were you born after 2005?
Diego is a man with a giant heart.
The final vs Florian was the quickest stoppage I’ve ever seen involving “45 minute” Mazzagatti. Respect to Diego for always marching to his own drum
Wow. I remember watching this live and I didn’t remember the stoppage being that quick. Wow that was way too fast. Diego probably would’ve won anyway by Florian deserved more of a chance.
"THE NIGHTMARE"! one of my favorite fighters ever!
So many great characters this season legends lieben diegio koscshek bonner forrest many more
Just got off work and this was the first thing that popped up on my feed...thank you Larone please keep em comin like a 🐇
Same here my brotha
“I didn’t even know what asparagus was. It made my piss stink” quote of the decade🤣🤣🤣
RIP Stephen 💯🙏🏽
Undefeated GOAT Larone back at it
Nicely edited. Seamless, viewed like one long episode. Didn't at all feel like watching clips compiled from the series. Well done.
Diego should have kept fighting like he did on the show. His career derailed when he tried to become a boxer.
joshua fabia watching this in tears since it's the one that got away
No more golden goose😂
He's probably watching it playing with his pickle
Nate Quarry is a real man. An awesome friend to all these guys.
Bonnar has me cracking up. RIP
"Well....I don't know if I'm your dad for sure, but...." 💀
@@chriscolbert2188 “do you know what asparagus is“ lol
When that nobody Alex guy told Diego that 'he' was a nobody, I had to laugh. Here we are almost 20 years later, and time (being the great equalizer) has made Hall Of Fame level fighter Diego Sanchez who has given us some of the best early UFC fights into a respected and remembered champion, and made that other dude into forgettable mud. LOL
8:07 , 5’9” Diego (who has fought as light as 145lbs) had no problem calling out 6’4”, 205lbs Bonner (who probably cut a lot to make 205lbs).
Cool that they became good friends later in life.
RIP Bonner.
Bonnar was a good dude. I used to train boxing with him before he was in TUF.
@@tommym321Miguel Torres was there too
@@paleo704 this was at fitplex on Dearborn
@@tommym321yeah right
Damn man, just sat down to eat breakfast and I see a upload from Larone! hell yeah! Thanks for the entertainment
The first two seasons were real shitshows since they went the route of "reality TV" hard with competions to pick fights etc which would take its toll on fighters. Let alone making Diego fight more times than any other fighter. It was brutal compared to what it is now.
Diego was such a company man for so many years it was sad to see it end the way it did with josh fagia! 😂
Josh Labia lol
Recent fans don't know what the UFC was like when Dana had hair
"Hair"
When you realize Diego been like this since day one. Respect 🫡
The first episode of TUF 1 wasn't "day 1" for the UFC, much less MMA as a whole
@@EpsteinsRopeWhat that got to do w Diego being spiritual animal and yoga junkie?
“A three year, six figure contract…” aka: $33k a year 😢
Nah I think it means 100k for 3 years
@@kden7197 lol $33k a year for 3 years, is basically $100k 99k
@@kden7197 Its a cheap contract. Welcome to Dana Whites, get rich quick program. aka snake oil
@@patrickpope1260 I know but I think he means a 3 year contract at a 100k per year. 33k a year is not accurate.
Yes it was a 3 year six figure contract it’s 6 figures for every year if u fight
20 years has FLOWN BYE 💨
Look how small and normal Dana’s head was back then.
1:23:25 I think chuck did a line before this fight
Lmfao he was tweaking
That speech uncle dana made quite literally changed mma forever thank god.i also remember watching this on bravo in uk in 2000s❤❤❤
You think convincing guys that not being paid to do a job is a good thing? Wild that so many MMA fans are promotion fans, and not actual fans of the fighters.
@@cody1482calm down lmfao
@@cody1482are you ok Karen…..maybe tennis is for you.
You know this is old school when Dana is explaining what a rear naked choke is
Diego was my favorite from season 1.
36:20 "The aliens are coming Diego"
"EUAHFUDHEUAHD"
Man, the drunk night of them reminded me of my time in the military(I'm from Europe, we have to go for 8months, no war, just training and learning to have discipline)... We did soo much shit to and with each other... A bunch of young drunk guys, all physically fit.... We (not only once) fought 1st VS 2nd floor.... Just 4 fun....
Do Forrest Griffin or Rashad Evans next
Diego is a hall of famer
Met Diego at the MGM Grand during the Chuck Lidell Randy Couture 2nd fight....
he was a really nice guy...the only thing that shocked me was actually how short he was....haha....granted I'm 6'5 but I expected him to be taller for some reason
the bigger they are😂
Hey, leave us 5’9” guys alone. We are trying our best! 😂
@@ongbruhlmao oh no doubt. I learned that when i was 19 years old....I had just gotten to the fleet in the Marine Corps and I did a fun wrestling match with another Marine almost half my size, and he quickly showed me what wrestling was all about. I couldn't believe it honestly. But then I started training in the Marine Corps martial arts, and about a year later we did another little match but that time I beat him. It was awesome. we're still friends to this day, over 20 years later.
@@dannyc7227 haha no disrespect at all..much love for everyone!
That is sick. That is the first ppv j actually watched live.
Hell yeah Larone
"Senator Sam" 😂😂😂😂 RIP Stephen 😢
Josh Rafferty- "I almost had Diego but need to work on some things!" Almost had him.
Almost landed a jab.. Almost
Larone giving the street what they want. Keep up the good work.
“Do you want to be a fckin fighter “ speech gets me everytime
How bout "Do you want to be a fcking promoter? Then pay your fighters."
Is Diego crazy?
YES!
YES!
YES!
Geez Diego just showing up everyone
Deigo has that Main character energy, the Protaganist in an anime energy. Truely 1 of 1
Kenny Florian was a 3 weight division competitor and a real fighter.
Diego Sanchez made me realize I’m a full fanatic of MMA!
Coach saying snap his arm 😂😂😂😂😂
Love Diego,s fighting style. He and Chris are both killers. Hell.... Lotta good guy's on this season. Forrest, Stephan, Koshcheck... Even though I don't like Josh
Pretty much half the guys from the 1st season ended up in the UFC.
Larone a true American hero tho, doing the peoples work
Crazy how dominant Diego was in this show. Looked like he was one weight class above everyone he fought, the way he bullied them all (except Koschek).
The asparagus fight !
THANK YOU
Love young Diego
Diego looks like he wearing lipstick on the thumbnail lol
Wtf is up with that thumbnail??
We watched this in seals school . Diego!
I always wanted Bruce to announce him atleast once in his career as Diego "DIRTY!!!!!" Sancheeezzzzzz!!!
Aliens diego!!!!
Randy with his blue jeans and shirt tucked in looked just like these fools dad
such a role model
34:20 Holy shit, it’s spinners! I haven’t seen those bitches in forever. I still think they’ll make a comeback down the road. My drug dealer best friend had them back in 2002. He used to slam on the brakes constantly when he stopped so they would spin longer.
Bonner was the only one that had Diego's back in that employee meeting. Honourable dude.
This seems like ages ago. All I remember was the look Diego gave when someone (Florian?) chose him as his opponent. He went into straight "I don't know who you anymore and I'm going to eat you alive" mode to the person. I remember thinking "oh man you messed up."
What I like about TUF is Sam H's entrepreneurial spirit. His secret store that he and Peter Welch will open after the TUF champion fights. Sam knows about honor, he speaks about it after having his Town Hall meeting. Another important takeaway is the actual fights now same team members are fighting each other. Sucks that we never thought this would happen so telling you what issue we are having. Like having a torn labrum.
Thanks for this video again!!👍🏻
These TUF videos are the best, good times😊
Anyone know the song that was playing when Diego walked to the octagon to fight Alex?
The first thumbnail🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Who painted Diego's lips 👄 in the thumbnail?
This guy man
Thank you Larronez
Diego was proper good
Bro got lipstick on
“The Aliens are coming”
Deigo was actually one of the best in the world back then
Made respect Diego Sanchez
Mad respect to the Legend Diego Sanchez
Wrestling was, is and will always be the king of MMA. Strikers never had a chance. A wrestler can always become an elite striker, a striker cant become an elite wrestler.
If that were true then we would see plenty of examples of wrestlers becoming elite strikers, not just the 1 in 1000. And GSP is an example of proving "strikers can't become elite wrestlers" wrong. He became the best MMA grappler at 170 despite his base being striking.
Love Diego ❤
RIP Stephen ❤
Great videos! ❤
"All i care about is competing. And stealing peoples beanie's" - Sam Hogar
😂😂
What's the walkout song when he was fighting Alex karalexis
Does anyone know the name of the metal track that plays when diego walks out to fight Alex Karalexis on the ultimate fighter series?
Larone .... you're a G.O.A.T Sir .... A G.O.A.T !!!!
38:51 "DURRRRRRR"
Hey Larone can you do Rashad Evans tuf 2?
Rolling out.
I haven't seen this season but I like the specific fighter's view, you see the same show though different eyes. It's like the three blind men trying to discribe a elephant story. Three differnt opinions kinda true but all different.
R.I.P Stephen Bonner :(
Thumbnail looks like Diego Sanchez in drag with all that make up
Also Diego beat Diaz in the ground. Really sad to see Diego trusting Fabia
This is so much better than the new season lol wtf ?