Bellator 149: "Shamrock vs. Gracie 3" will come to Toyota Center in Houston, Texas, on Feb. 19, 2016. As you can already surmise from the name, the main event will be a trilogy fight between mixed martial arts (MMA) legends Ken Shamrock and Royce Gracie.
To say these two men know each other very, very well would be a terrible understatement. In fact, their history goes back to the first-ever Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) pay-per-view (PPV) in 1993, where Gracie got the best of Shamrock in less than one minute via rear-naked choke.
UFC 5 on April 7, 1995, was Shamrock's chance to even the score, but in the days before five-minute rounds this fight went an astonishing 36 minutes without either man finishing or submitting the other, ultimately being ruled a draw.