While Goodridge would have appeared to most fight fans as a world class martial artist, he was actually an arm wrestling champion who had attended 2 lessons of the Korean freestyle martial art - Kuk Sool Won and was offered status as a 4th degree black belt and a free gi to represent the school in the UFC.
Supposedly the goose neck was the only submission he had learnt. Legendary bar room brawler Tank Abbot considered by many to be the pioneer of the modern MMA glove was in the house for UFC 5 but got so drunk he lost his front-row tickets and ended up sitting high in the rafters.
Scott Ferrozo received the same title. As you can imagine the early days of the UFC were more comparable to the Wild West, than an organised sport. Fights were unsanctioned, rules were few and vague, equipment and clothing were not standardised, sponsors rarely hung around for very long, and media coverage was generally very negative, drawing the attention of a formidable adversary in Senator John McCain whilst the UFC was still in it's infancy.
In after watching footage of the early UFC tournaments, Sen. McCain described the sport as 'human cockfighting' and immediately started on a campaign to crush MMA which included writing letters to all 50 US governors asking them to ban the 'sport'.
Thirty six states enacted laws that banned 'no holds barred' fighting, including NY, who enacted the ban on the eve of UFC 12 to be held in NY , dealing a massive blow to the promoters and forcing an emergency relocation to Dothan , Alabama. The pressure placed on the UFC actually led to the evolution of the sport, with increased co-operation with state athletic commissions and a re-formatting of the rules to remove the less palatable elements.
By UFC 14 weight classes had been introduced, along with mandatory gloves and a bevy of new rules including, no hair pulling, groin strikes, head butting, fish hooks or kicking a downed opponent.
By UFC 15 other types of unsavoury striking were added to the list, and by UFC 21 the introduction of the standardised 3 x 5 minute rounds was implemented, re-branding MMA as a genuine sport, rather than a spectacle. All of this was fine and jolly but the bigger picture required U.
S sanctioning of the UFC and the other up and coming organisations to really begin to grow as both a sport and a business. Still the problems continued With the UFC on the brink of bankruptcy from its long sanctioning battle, along came the saviour.
DW was a sports fanatic and amateur boxer, who being the budding entrepreneur that he was, also managed a couple of promising young MMA fighters in Tito Ortiz and Chuck Liddell. Just 13 seconds after it started, McGregor finished it and nothing has been the same since. Conor McGregor vs. After taking a round to get loose and being on the wrong end of the exchanges through the first half of the second round, Diaz tagged McGregor and shifted the momentum in his favor.
And when the fight hit the canvas, he forced the Irish superstar to tap out in the center of the Octagon. McGregor immediately requested a rematch and after some delays, the duo was paired off for a second time in the main event of UFC in Las Vegas.
The outcome of their first fight combined with the incredible popularity of the two fighters turned this into the most anticipated fight in UFC history. In the cage, McGregor drew level, surviving another Diaz rally to leave the cage with a majority decision win after another wildly entertaining clash.
With the score even at and both men set to return to the Octagon in the coming weeks, could a rubber match be on the horizon? Daniel Cormier vs. Jones won the first meeting, earning the unanimous decision victory at UFC and handing Cormier his first loss. Soon after, he was stripped of the light heavyweight title and suspended, with Cormier claiming the vacant belt, adding another layer of animosity to this permanently simmering rivalry.
The false starts along the way only increased the excitement surrounding the fight. First, it was Cormier who was forced to withdraw just a few weeks before UFC , where Jones returned and claimed an interim title with a safe, solid victory over Ovince Saint Preux. Then it was Jones who would cause a delay, as days before the duo was set to meet at UFC , he was pulled from the fight for a potential anti-doping violation.
Cormier was crestfallen, but carried on, earning two more victories and continuing to trade verbal jabs with Jones every chance he got. Finally, the two faced off for a second time at UFC Could Cormier get the victory he needed to draw level with his chief rival?
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