In their wildest fantasies, the people who created the first Ultimate Fighting Championship couldn’t have imagined what would go down 25 years to the weekend later.
UFC Denver, the company’s 25th anniversary event in the same city as UFC 1 in 1993, was headlined by a bout between Mexico’s Yair Rodriguez and South Korea’s Chan Sung Jung that was everything you could have imagined the sport evolving into, a high-level battle of skill and will.
But that in and of itself was before one of the craziest finishes ever seen in the history of mixed martial arts.