The morning of what was expected to be the biggest fight up to that point in UFC history, Frank Shamrock was remarkably calm. He seemingly already knew not just the result of the fight against a far bigger and stronger opponent, but how it would go.
"It'll either be a quick win, with an armbar in the first round, or a win late in the fight, when he's tired out," Shamrock said at breakfast before his Sept. 24, 1999, UFC middleweight title defense against Tito Ortiz.
It was a very different UFC in those days.