>>6940261The early UFC's were great, bar none. LIterally no rules aside from the down and dirty like eye gouging and kicking when you had footwear on, that sorta thing. You literally saw different martial arts styles, some you never even heard of, going toe-to-toe. You'd see dudes with mullets that looked like they sold you smokes at the gas station go up against 400 pound superheavyweights and fucking demolish them. You saw brawls, bloodbaths, sick submission hold; it was wild.
In retrospect, some say that the early ones were rigged by the Gracie's because it was really shady in those days and partially owned by the mob, but Brazillian Jiu-Jitsu was de facto seen as the best style. They even held one of their early shows in Brazil and it was a hot crowd for the hometown heroes. These days, with the commissions, UFC had like a 10'000 page rule book put on it by the government so an immense amount of things changed, but the product took off and got mass exposure when it did around the early 2000s. BJJ is a ground-based and most if not all fights go to the ground.
