The last time the UFC put on a show in New York, Ken Shamrock fought Oleg Taktarov to a 33-minute draw in the evening's "superfight championship" main event.
It was September 8, 1995, and despite drawing a company-record crowd of 9,000 people to Buffalo's Memorial Auditorium, UFC 7 was kind of a disaster. The 11-fight card featured no weight classes, no rounds and time limits that were treated more like suggestions than actual rules.
Midway through, a generator blew and caused a power outage in the arena. Because of the resulting delay, the event ran over its allotted time on pay-per-view, and many customers had their TV broadcasts go dark before the final bouts.