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Re:U.F.C. Sells Itself for $4B by danso on Monday July 11, 2016 @02:49PM (#12073321)
I'm glad I grew up in the age of Karate Kid movies, when having a black belt was enough to scare kids from beating me up in school. I remember how the first UFCs utterly demolished the movie-mythos of Kung fu/karate, as Royce Gracie and other grapplers made strikers look rather impotent. I kind of missed the early days of UFC, when things were much more no-holds-barred. There weren't rounds or time limits or weight classes (for the most part), which meant that Royce had to beat an opponent 80 pounds heavier for the championship (Dan Severin, but I swear I thought Gracie had to beat even heavier opponents [0]). The flip side was that watching 20 minutes of one guy sitting atop another was not very compelling, and probably unfeasible as pay per view TV.

[0] http://www.gracieacademy.com/news/gracie-breakdown-royce-gra...

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Re:U.F.C. Sells Itself for $4B by feklar on Monday July 11, 2016 @03:25PM (#12073624)
The Karate guys in the UFC and cleaning up these days like Stephen 'Wonderboy' Thompson.

Early MMA/UFC until recently was battle of the PEDs Royce was juiced to the gills in those marathon early matches.

Selling UFC right now was a good exit, the barrier to entry has fallen where competitor promotions can easily move in now since early UFC did all the arduous regulatory lobbying to legalize these matches and create a PPV market.

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Re:U.F.C. Sells Itself for $4B by Steko on Monday July 11, 2016 @04:39PM (#12074352)
> Royce was juiced to the gills

Haha. I'm not sure when Royce started using and he may have been on it from the start but 'juiced to the gills' is a joke of a description when he was regularly facing much larger opponents.

http://www.chud.com/articles/content_images/53/reviews/UFC_5...

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Re:U.F.C. Sells Itself for $4B by zarkov99 on Monday July 11, 2016 @04:02PM (#12073974)
Royce was juiced to the gills? How do you figure that? He looked as scrawny as ever.
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