Customer Reviews

UFC 31-37 DVD Box Set 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 Ultimate Fighting Championship Vol 31-37

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This is a 7-DVD set featuring UFC events 31-37. Each UFC event is on its own DVD. The whole set is housed in a sturdy container that is easily accessible. Unlike with some other mutli-DVD sets, each DVD is independantly accessible because of the convenient design of the plastic flap. Each DVD contains the bare-bones event without any added specials.

This was an interesting and challenging time for the Ultimate Fighting Championship. Not until UFC 33, prior events were off cable and held at miniscule venues. This was like a transition period for the UFC from "no holds barred" to mainstream MMA. The following is a breakdown of each event in this set:

UFC 31 Locked & Loaded (5/04/01):
Matt Lindland vs. Ricardo Almeida
Semmy Schilt vs. Pete Williams
Shonie Carter vs. Matt Serra
Chuck Liddell vs. Kevin Randleman
Carlos Newton vs. Pat Miletich
Randy Couture vs. Pedro Rizzo

UFC 32 Showdown in the Meadowlands (6/29/01):
Vladimir Matyushenko vs. Yuki Kondo
Caol Uno vs. Fabiano Iha
Pat Miletich vs. Shonie Carter
Josh Barnett vs. Semmy Schilt
B.J. Penn vs. Din Thomas
Tito Ortiz vs. Elvis Sinosic

UFC 33 Victory in Vegas (9/28/01):
Din Thomas vs. Fabiano Iha
Matt Serra vs. Yves Edwards
Chuck Liddell vs. Murilo Bustamante
Dave Menne vs. Gil Castillo
Jens Pulver vs. Dennis Hallman
Tito Ortiz vs. Vladimir Matyushenko

UFC 34 High Voltage (11/02/01):
Frank Mir vs. Roberto Traven
Matt Lindland vs. Phil Baroni
Josh Barnett vs. Bobby Hoffman
B.J. Penn vs. Caol Uno
Ricco Rodriguez vs. Pete Williams
Randy Couture vs. Pedro Rizzo
Matt Hughes vs. Carlos Newton

UFC 35 Throwdown (1/11/02):
Andrei Semenov vs. Ricardo Almeida
Chuck Liddell vs. Amar Suloev
Murilo Bustamante vs. Dave Menne
Ricco Rodriguez vs. Jeff Monson
Jens Pulver vs. BJ Penn

UFC 36 World's Collide (3/22/02):
Frank Mir vs. Pete Williams
Evan Tanner vs. Elvis Sinosic
Matt Lindland vs. Pat Miletich
Matt Hughes vs. Hayato Sakurai
Pedro Rizzo vs. Andrei Arlovski
Josh Barnett vs. Randy Couture

UFC 37 High Impact (5/10/02):
Caol Uno vs. Yves Edwards
Phil Baroni vs. Amar Suloev
BJ Penn vs. Paul Creighton
Ricco Rodriguez vs. Tsuyoshi Kohsaka
Murilo Bustamante vs. Matt Lindland

The few drawbacks include the fact that there are no added features and that all the prelims were cut out. Also, the audio seems a little low so I had to crank the volume on my TV. Otherwise this is a very solid set of earlier UFC action, a time when UFC president Dana White still had some hair on his head.

I'm not sure where this set originates from. I'm told it's the International Satelite feeds. At any rate, dont be scared off by it's "Region 0" rating. So far, the quality is great and the compact packaging is a great plus. None of these shows are available on dvd in the US so for now, I'd say snatch them up.
Most of the events are just the main card with no pre-lims. 32 gives you the results of the pre-lims.
33 is the weird show. They tried to give you a taste of all the matches, so unless the match was short (and most of them werent) it was edited.
So far, I think this is the only show where they tried that (thankfully)
Anyway, the set gets a thumbs-up from me and I'll be buying Box Set 21-30 just as soon as cash allows.

These UFC Events took place shortly after the Fertitas and Dana White bought the UFC from SEG! From 2001 to the present, the UFC has become the premier MMA organization in the world! During this time the UFC was still in its repackaging phase and fixing its product. However, these 7 events from top to bottom were simply awesome! The Randy Couture-Pedro Rizzo battles, Matt Hughes winning his first welterweight title, Tito Ortiz in the prime of his career defending his Light Heavyweight championship, the UFC'S first event in Las Vegas: UFC 33 and more. Its such a mystery why the UFC and Dana White have not put these UFC events on DVD on the open market? What are they waiting for? These were great events and the picture, sound and quality are great! I highly recommend this product.

I just finished watching this set and was extremely happy with it. The quality was very high as each event was on it's own separate disc. The other sets from this manufacturer (1-10, 11-20, 21-30) all have two events per disc and the picture quality is quite bad. Despite being called a liar (by other reviewers) regarding the quality assessment on my review of the 21-30 set, anybody who knows anything about compression ratios of the MPEG-2 format (DVD) on a single layer disc will tell you 4+ hours worth of content (especially with a high amount of motion and on screen activity) is going to look pretty bad. That's not opinion - that's math.
Anyway, I give this 4 stars. I would give it 5 stars, but there are no prelims like you get on the officially licensed UFC DVDs.

The other reviewer mentioned that UFC 33 featured only partial matches unless the match ended quickly. That wasn't the case on the copy I received. On the main card of UFC 33, every match went to a decision and they were played in full on my copy.

The copy of this boxed set I got is 7-discs, 1 event on each disc. The quality is pretty good. I was worried that on my 61" HD TV that the quality would be very poor, but it was not bad at all (not as good as a new release UFC DVD though.)

The big surprise was that UFC 33 Victory in Vegas was shown in FULL. ALL prelims are shown in FULL. All fights are shown in FULL. No editing. This is awesome. I was at this show, and for the longest time wanted to see all these fights again from the comfort of my own home.

Now, let me add that this event (UFC 33) is pretty dull overall. Almeida/Jackson ends in the first round, and DeSouza/Nakao ends in the second round (by brutal KO), but all 6 other fights go the distance... and 3 of them are 5-round championship matches!!! It's a LONG event. If you watched it on Cable TV PPV live, you probably did not get to see the last round of the Ortiz/Matyushenko fight as many cable companies cut the feed at the 3 hour mark (when this show was supposed to end) but due to the long matches, they went over the time allotment. So this is a rare opportunity to see all 5 (dull) rounds.

All other events have the main card only, no prelims. what a shame.

I'm pretty happy with this set. I will replace it if/when Zuffa ever releases proper DVDs for these events, prelims and all.

Also, I am in the U.S. and these DVDs are NTSC & Region 0, they played just fine in my DVD player (used PS3).

I got mine on Ebay for about $50, I don't know why someone here is trying to sell this set for over $200. ???