Ken Shamrock and the UFC 

There have been many drastic changes to the UFC I, Mixed Martial Arts form, since Dana White, and Lorenzo and Frank Fertitta purchased the Ultimate Fighting Championship in 2001. Ken Shamrock, the first son of the Ultimate Fighting Championships, was the first major title holder, and has been portrayed, especially during The Ultimate Fighter Season 3, as a short-tempered, easily infuriated brute, but when he speaks about the very first Ultimate Fighting Championship, with a gleam in his eye, he's suddenly an extraordinary storyteller. He claims that even the fighters had little knowledge of what the Ultimate Fighting Championships held in store. On Nov. 8 of 1993, Shamrock was in Japan at another mixed-martial arts event, submitting Takaku Fuke in a mere 44 seconds, only to appear in Denver on Nov. 12, for the first-ever Ultimate Fighting Championship. Jet-lagged and facing an altitude change, he had no idea he was about to become a focal point of a mixed-martial arts revolution.
  The fight was billed as an anything-goes event, where two men would enter, and one would leave. The UFC, as Shamrock saw it, was making claims that only the movies made. He is said to have doubted that the event would ever take place, but it did. It began with striking specialist, Gerard Gordeau, sprinkling the teeth of sumo wrestler Teia Tuli across the mat. Shamrock has been quoted as saying he remembered that "You could hear a pin drop." From that moment, ultimate fighting was on, the brutality was for real, and anything could happen.
 
  Shamrock made his debut shortly thereafter against tae kwon do specialist Patrick Smith. Smith and Shamrock's camps exchanged words behind the scenes, with Smith telling everyone who would listen that he felt no pain, to a background of his camp chanting, "He's gonna crush you!" Even Shamrock's father, Bob, was furious, but Ken assured his father he'd take care of Smith, and he did just that, less than two minutes into the fight, by submitting Smith with a heel hook. Shamrock, who'd been in his fair share of bar room brawls, street fights, and tough man contests, before becoming involved in the Ultimate Fighting Championships, from the very first match, Shamrock fell in love with Mixed Martial Arts and the Ultimate Fighting Championships.

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