With the recent news of the UFC signing a 7 year deal with Fox, it is safe to say this 18 year old sport is on its way to becoming “officially mainstream.”
But in order to appreciate the now, we must look back, back to the multitude of fighters that got this sport through the dark ages of near extinction and helped to build the UFC into a new kind of sports organization.
Power ranking the 50 most important fighters in UFC history is not a job for mere mortals, at least not this one – so please forgive me for simply putting them in chronological order.
Let the debate begin.