Happy Birthday ManMMA

[xx - Former Bulldozers]

No idea when I said mine.

[The Rocketmen]

Jan 23, 2019 15:12:47 GMT -5 xx - Former Bulldozers said:

No idea when I said mine.

manmma.proboards.com/thread/9571/manmma-origin-stories?page=2&scrollTo=99611

[~ josh ~]

why

[The Texas Rattlesnakes]

May 30, 2019 11:01:04 GMT -5 ~ josh ~ said:

why

DMT. Action Bronson. Questions.

[The Quads]

Happy Birthday!

[The Texas Rattlesnakes]

Jan 21, 2019 3:58:42 GMT -5 The Sandmen said:

Jan 20, 2019 17:47:16 GMT -5 The Rocketmen said:

Tell us your favorite ManMMA story!

You asked, and you asked here, on ManMMA, so I have to be honest.

My favourite ManMMA story is the story of ManMMA within its place in the 2012 sim site world. In that world of NHL sim sites, we saw many hockey sites, some with 20-25 members, come and go, live and die. What chance did an MMA sim site have?

For years, Mike and I created, and worked on NHL Sim sites. We had many ups and downs, and often found ways to kill our own creations by being too democratic and trying to make everyone happy (or I believe, 1 or 2 died because of time, or one of us losing interest). Anyway, during this time EA NHL Simulation rose up as THE sim site on the internet. It had been around forever, and over time, since we ran competitions sites, Mike and I ended up being "those guys" that the core members of that site hated.

After years of friendly rivalry, etc., we ended up giving up on hockey sim sites, and I dove in head first to this absolute 100% Hail Mary passion project - An MMA sim site.

This would be the first sim site I had planned on simming. Mike and I had tried something like this before, but it was not a real sim site, and Mike had to try to do it in Undisputed 2009 - it failed miserably. But then I found a program, and a way, for us to do it on a Proboards site. I had always said I never expected this to be a big community, and I vowed, "I will keep simming it as long as its fun, even if I am the only damned member here - I want fantasy MMA God damnit!". Mike stuck by, other people migrated over from our ManNHL sites, and joined in this adventure with us.

On our launch day, we had 8 members (Shout out to the original core - The Rocketmen, xx - Camp Cannon, xx - Team Ramrod, xx - Former Team Tapout - xx, @cor99,The West Coast Knockouts, xx - The Broad Street Bullies). That was a little bit more then I was expecting, so I was ecstatic. However, knowing sim sites, I know most of these people would not stay, so I was hoping for about a 50% retention, so we had a nice little league of about 4-5.

We added a few, hit the ground running, and kinda never turned back. People came, people went, but we kept driving forward. With several people over the years stepping up to help out (The Rocketmen, xx - Former Phoenix Fight Club, Ferocity, xx - The Broad Street Bullies, xx - Camp Cannon, and now, The Texas Rattlesnakes), I was able to keep focusing on simming, and ManMMA was able to keep plowing forward.

Which brings us back to my chief "rival", EA NHL Simulation.

EA NHL Simulation had its final sim on May 15, 2014. It lasted for a then-unprecedented 5 years, 6 months, 1 day (2008 days).

Today, as ManMMA turns 7 years old, there is rarely a day that goes by that I don't sit in awe of the fact that our little MMA site, built out of a group of NHL Sim Site'ers, with limited interest in MMA at all, have outlasted the king of hockey sim sites by a year and a half, or nearly 500 days. And counting.

As ManMMA celebrates its 7th birthday, I could possibly be more proud of this community and the people behind it.

I cannot thank you all enough for the time, passion, effort and even, in some cases, complete indifference, that have created this long-term community we have here. Thank you for trusting us, and putting your faith and time into this site, your fighters, and your teams. Thank you for your suggestions, your arguments, and even your hate.

I love this site like a second child, and I love everyone here as friends. You have been a large part of my life over the past 7 years, and I'm not sure I can express in words what your few minutes or few hours a day on this site has meant to me.

Thank you.

Thank you EA NHL Simulation for giving us a benchmark of excellence to push towards, and measure ourselves against. And thank you ManMMA world, for helping us surpass that benchmark.

Now let's dig in for another 7 years, shall we ?

Almost 8! All the site has to do now is not die in the next four to five days!

[The Rocketmen]

Fingers crossed.

Edit: this feels ominous and inappropriate. Justin is on a trip right now and traveling and his final stop is my place. I would feel like a real piece of shit if something happened and my last comment on the site while he was alive was "fingers crossed." Fuck me.

[The Texas Rattlesnakes]

Jan 16, 2020 13:09:04 GMT -5 The Rocketmen said:

Fingers crossed.

Edit: this feels ominous and inappropriate. Justin is on a trip right now and traveling and his final stop is my place. I would feel like a real piece of shit if something happened and my last comment on the site while he was alive was "fingers crossed." Fuck me.

Jesus who said anything about Justin dying

[The Texas Rattlesnakes]

Happy 8th Birthday!