One of the men who helped create the UFC will take his place in the company's Hall of Fame.
UFC co-creator Bob Meyrowitz was named to the Contributors Wing of the Hall of Fame on Wednesday, the company announced. He'll be inducted during the UFC Fan Expo on July 10 in Las Vegas.
Meyrowitz was an executive with the Semaphore Entertainment Group, a Hollywood company which specialized in pay-per-view television. He worked with fellow SEG exec Campbell McClaren and Rorion Gracie to put on UFC 1 on Nov. 12, 1993 in Denver.
The one-night tournament, won by Royce Gracie, was initially meant to be a one-off event, but when the show did an unexpectedly large buy rate of 80,000, it became clear the UFC wasn't going away.