Re: UFC Unleashed yesterday - Royce Gracie (Gracie vs Hughes coming s
Good clarifications all.
I wasn't really sure on the exact timing beyond 4, but I'd recently re-re-re-re-re-watched UFC 1-4 on the recently released UFC Classics dvds, so that was fresh in my mind. I'm pretty sure that there were judges as soon as UFC 5, but I can't recall for sure.
When I said combination strikers/wrestlers you're exactly right - it started with the pure strikers in Frye, Maurice Smith, etc. Then went to wrestlers with Coleman / Kerr / Couture, then combination striker / grapplers leading in to today's modern well-rounded MMA athlete who studies it all (Liddell, Hughes, Penn, Ortiz, GSP, etc).
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