check out UFC 1-7 etc when there really were no rules - think there was about one boxer - and he got wiped out fast -
Really, that proved nothing... except that the masses are gullible.

The Gracie family co-owned UFC and selected all opponents.

UFC was simply a tournament the Gracies created to promote their Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu to drive up enrollments at their martial arts schools. It was like a PPV infomercial.
They had no idea it would ever morph into what it's become, nor that a sport would develop out of it.

Do you honesty think they'd pick opponents that they thought their man Royce couldn't beat? On their own show?!

God bless 'em, at least the fights were real, and Royce still deserves respect for fighting 3 fights in 1 night with barely any rules, no weight classes, and no time limits. But this boxer they selected proved nothing.


From 1984 when we got a 10 foot satellite dish, throughout the 80s and 1990s, I was a Boxing fanatic, and would even watch the 4 rd Just4Starters, but despite all this history, I had never seen nor even heard of Art Jimmerson until UFC 1 in Nov, 1993.