UltimateMK.com was formed in March of 2006 originally as a forum, information and video resource for the Classic Mortal Kombat Community as a response to the fractured presence of the competitive scene that existed on various message boards, forums and online resource groups. These sites only provided a generalized fan-centric appeal to the games and in order to centralize the competitive players, it was necessary to create a website specifically for that purpose.
Over the course of a few years, through participating on sites such as DarkAddictz Forum on our original site DarkTemplarz.com, as well as Shoryuken.com, MKOnline, TRMK, TotalMK, DavesMK, Kamidogu, GameSpot, GameStop, GameFAQs, AkumaCombos, GameCombos, ComboVideos, Xbox360 and more, we coalesced the players who were interested in competitive gaming, in particular, MK games.
We were able to launch the message boards with hundreds of pre-registered users on or about June 12th, 2006, in the midst of the announcement of UMK3 on XBLA. The site quickly grew to over 1200 users, in what was still a very small, and personal community with no current game that was being played at live, in-person tournaments. The majority of the 3D MK scene resided in online play at the time.
After a few years, the active forum was closed but remained online for several more years as a museum of information, until merging with TestYourMight.com by Shock and Storms in 2012, where the forum threads from 2006 to 2012 can be found and still participated in to this day.
Prior to the merger, UltimateMK would become part of KombatNetwork, an NRS game focused tournament running, organizing, streaming, content creating, player sponsoring production team.