On This Day: The First UFC Fight Ever | UFC 1 Free Fight 

To be fair they did have rules, "No biting and no eye gouging". That was it

@@thesmithersy So kicking in the nuts was ok?

​@@thesmithersy They should go back to Pride rules. Completely legal kick in Pride.

@@thesmithersy i thought no fish hooking or small joint manipulation was in there too

that was common sense ​@@commiesnzombies

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And gloves

And no kicking a down oponent

That would a terrible rule to disallow kicking when the opponent is down.

@@Dziaji ever seen Yan vs Sterlin 1? Yan got disqualified for using an illegal knee while the opponent was down. It’s very much a real rule.

Great memory you shared! Father son bonding time is a beautiful thing!

Lol thats awesome

awesome memory lol

Thanks for sharing ✌️❤️

How were the subs.

The ref didn't stop the fight. He paused it in the middle of the action. If had actually stopped the fight I would be fine, but he didn't. He paused the action, giving the sumo a chance to recover. Then the doctor stopped the fight. In hindsight, it looks like the ref was right because the fight was stopped eventually without restarting the action. But there is a reason Gerard was confused when the ref put a TIME OUT sign up. Time out means that you are going to time back in at some point, and the time out occurred right when Gerard was about to win the fight.

I prefer Mortal Kombat rules.

You like shlong huh

Good point....

Hahaha just a sort 30 years

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lmaoooo

That's pretty funny lol

Well it works out if you're still here

No

@@HonkeyKong54 aight then lemme see you get kicked straight in the face by a kickboxer🤡

​@@HonkeyKong54 you can take a high speed kick to the face? Let's see it.

@@HonkeyKong54 give me one shot then

Gerard landed a couple precision powerful strikes.

surprised they didn't edit that bit out. he's got a bunch of tattoos from the same era too lol. turns out he's actually a dick too when you see what he did to that guys eyes in Pride

His name is "Gerard Gordeau" and believe it or not, he was actually the most well known fighter among the invites

Hilarious

That's actually the Roman legionnaire salute the Nazis copied it at Hitlers insinstatce

My cousin pointed that out when we watched it on cable back then.

white guy humbled him less than 20 sec. Sad

I felt bad for him. It looked like he was crying after getting field goal kick across the dome.

You are delusional@@HunterBidenLaptop46

And now we watched Leon humble Colby. What’s your point?

Bro he weighs 200 pounds more

Dana did a lot of that. It was barbaric with no weight limits or rules before him. He wanted to clean it up for mainstream TV

@@dlt9784 Underground was better. We were trading VHS tapes lmao There were different styles fighting each other then, Royce Gracie fucked it all up with his hour grappling matches and always wanting to go to the ground and everyone started grappling.

"those rules" this kind of fight was never "normal". But only because of the weight class interaction. And the heavier weight class lost. The actual fight played out like perfectly normal just without gloves, even though it was a kick that did him in. White dude was just on another plane of existence with his speed

@@Eusantdac I used to think that. Rewatched them recently with an old friend & it really wasn't better imo. Times might have been & had some better characters but not the fights. Hair pulling. Low blows (sometimes over and over and over and over in the same fight lol). People dropping out & having someone fresh come fight them for the title. & It started to change at a point where sumo, boxer, kickboxer v doesn't matter - whoever is better at Brazilian judo wins 99% of the time. I'm glad we had it, and it was fun as hell getting new tapes. Friend had a brother who trained with a semi pro in the area at the time & they'd get all kinds of stuff. Dude fought the chief Andre (think that was his name) Roberts of all people lol. Didn't win but didn't do bad either. Unlocked memory. Did the same with rewatching pride. THAT had better fights & stands the test of time I think.

Tank Abbott is the reason why they have gloves and first few rules

Literally

They'd fine.

People did die. That's why they made rules.

yeaaaahhhhhhhh i sure can.... *looks around innocently*

Back to the Roman empire times

honestly they should’ve never let that happen he almost died

Goodridge's elbow became a human jackhammer damn

That one was the deadliest crucifix seen in almost 2000 years.

@@Geffalrus1984lol

There's also a dutch judoka who did something similar. Check out Remco Pardoel Vs. Orlando Wiet

Bruce buffer looks a little different too

@@pancholol2x Stephen Wonderboy Thompson looked a bit older as well

Rented it from Tower Records that year lol 😆😆😆 ...we loved it, and love it to his day 🤣🤣🤣

funny thing is rogan actually sounds so much different now than back when he started

@@xunbrokenx6881 it's the *TRT* he *abused*

Soccer kicks on downed opponents were legit in Pride for a long time after this.

...and no more sumo. that guy couldve been killed.

@@blankblank7101 that guy is correct, though

Still think that "no kicks to a downed opponent" is a weird and unnatural rule

@@l4game It really makes me wonder how it would change fights

Pro wrestling and Boxing. Martial art was very hard to broadcast.

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Oh man that made me laugh..

That’s Awesome. Dad always know bullspit when he sees it. But you could tell UFC was real from the first kick.

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Loool

What you talking about Hasbulla gonna smash Jon Jones

@Baby T Rex that is actually happening 2021

During that time, you could have seen Hasbulla vs Jon Jones

What a comment!

I rented the vhs tape when it came out as a kid. Ufc has never been the same since the 90s that was the golden era

Yup! I heard stories of people getting it and not knowing what it was, they weren’t sure if it was real, if it was p0rn, etc. Crazy sht

That's how I first watched it. VHS rentals.

I rented it at Tower Records... 😆 I don’t recall seeing it at local Blockbusters until many UFCs into it. Or, maybe we were too cool to go to Blockbuster... could be 🤣 ...I am from Luke Thomas Town

I remember renting it right after it came out. Pretty wild for the time.

where @DrDisrespect was champion

Laughing my ass off

That Dutch man is not a mouse or anything haha

hes also a pos, he gouged an Asian dudes eye out before losing to him, permanently blinding him, and when Gerard was asked in an interview about it years later he said he would do it again if he could

@@saunajoe5973 Wow that's horrible.

Yeah 40kg of fat is not adventage.. It's problem for that fat man

good ol tinker

That's a flying club not a fighter jet school

Lost all my respect to Gordeau, when he blinded that one guys eye, with his thumbs in Japan

Komt uit Den Haag en in zijn hoek stond Thomas.

It is illegal now

@@UFCRAPID it’s most definitely not legal now, grounded opponents can’t be kicked in the face

@@GFY_FS Read it again, he literally said "illegal"

@@LiLiBurkeTron most people don't read

@@2stroketyson79 In fairness, I don't think he can read.

lmao 🤣

Gobbled it right up, no problem.

Balboas student.

The set-up where he fell on his ass was just poetry in motion.

😂🤣

No cap! 🤣

Tbf Emmannuel Yarborough still managed to implement that tactic successfully at UFC 3. Unfortunately when the fight restarted it was followed by Keith Hackney doing a 300 move kata on his head...

I can just see him walking out to fight and as he looks at the cage a single tear comes rolling down his cheek 🤣

Improvise throw em over it

@@sexualman1272 Heh, back then that actually wasn't forbidden yet.

Would love to see that fight without gloves, or rules concerning knees or kicks to a downed opponent.

I don't kno bout that comparison

@@ahumblemansrahumblemansr3691 so you wanna see a murder? Just hop on liveleak for that.

@@falcor200 I'd like to see you try - Liveleak shut down.

@@p.h.234 yep no more liveleak lol

No one in this tournament would have beaten Gordeau in a striking battle except maybe Patrick Smith.

Historic

Well actually Japan has been doing MMA even before the UFC, Masakatsu Funaki and Minoru Suzuki 2 professional wrestlers wanting to actually compete in a real fight instead of scripted events already formed Pancrase a couple of months before the UFC, while another Japanese professional wrestler Satoru Sayama has already formed Shooto as early as 1985 were Rickson Gracie would dominate further increasing the BJJ prestige at the time.

@@ronb7189 yeah, yeah, yeah, sure. Whatever. Great for them, or something.

@@ronb7189 who

@@ipooponurface Type "shooto, MMA in 1990 july 9" This was like 3 years before UFC 1 and the techniques of these fighters are already similar to amateur MMA today instead of the pure 1 dimensional technique of the very early UFC.

damn that hurts

Bruh

@@lloydmcgee3030 He was also a dirty fighter who eye gouged

@@MsXynex That didn’t look intentional. He just kicked him in the cheek, and it managed to capture his eye. He didn’t ram the front of his foot into his eye, because that’s what he would’ve done if he wanted to.

@Mr. Brenman21 they mentioned no groin shots a few minutes in

Bruh😂

Hello There nah that's super heavyweight right there

lame

"Toothless" Robbie Lawler

@@SuperPeterok This is incredible.

some old gray weirdo shows up wearing one boxing glove against royce gracie

@@commiesnzombiesand tapped to mount lol

Yo Ricky huge fan!

@@JWayneGaming wow you just made my day thanks wayne brother!!!!!!!!!!!!

You mean _kicked_ in the face? It looked to me like all of his punches missed or barely grazed the big man before he fell.

@@RickyJSports What punch? 🤣 A kick is not a punch.

@@AnodyneHipsterInfluencer The punches missed. The phat dude fell because of misbalance. He also saw the kick coming and didn't put his arm up to block it. 🤣

That was Mark Hunts dad

Umm, I don't think that's BJ.. he isn't that tall or from the Netherlands.

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@@1georgekitchen bruh... that joke went right over your head 😂

@@1georgekitchen wooooosh goes the joke over your head

Today it's way too much of a sport. All the guys fight and train the same. There's no more diversity. It was exciting when a guy like Demian Maia showed up and you had no idea how the strikers were going to be able to handle a guy that had the best submissions in the world. Or when Anderson Silva showed up after leaving Pride. It was a different game

Dude, remember when that one guy hurled a lightning bolt at that other dude- and then the dude ripped out his head with his spinal cord attached and was all like, “FATALITY!” That was freakin awesome amarite? 🤣

@Usman Zaffar you are

@@WitchyWagonReal It was probably more funny when you were thinking of it

@@sleeperagent2594 no

Mortal kombat with a 1 hit health bar be like

^hhhhhhhhh

Yes guile u r right. When is street fighter 6 coming?

SONIC BOOOOM

Ahahahahaaaa! ☺😀😁😂😂😂😂

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That kick was on nose, but not the punch before he fall, upercut under the eye.

Isn't that kick illegal in today's rules?

@@JSamad it is

@@JSamad Not according to Petr Yan.

It’s stupid that it’s illegal now. Don’t wanna get hit when you’re down? Don’t go down

Neither did the akebono wannabe

Yes they put two guys in a cage and let them fight .

Well yeah, nobody had ever done this before besides a few crossover exhibition matches in Japan and Brazil. Vale Tudo has def been a thing in Brazil for the better part of a century but fights and events were still very rare.

They had street fighter in mind this is E. HONDA vs SAGAT in real life

This is *EXACTLY* what UFC was originally supposed to be - just putting together different fighters from different styles to see who'd win. People weren't training in multiple styles, there was never talk about weight classes, etc. It wasn't even clear that it was going to be an ongoing thing. It's better now though.

Fun fact: Sagat is one of the best and Honda one of the worst characters in street fighter 2 so the fight we saw here is pretty accurate.

Honda should've led off with a plus on block sumo smash.

@@nikolaidrago7938where’d you come up with that? I main e Honda, bet I could whoop ur ass w him against anyone lmao

This is the best comment I've read in awhile! Thanks for the laughs!

That's debatable. If you want to see the greatest organized cluster f@ck. Join the Army or Marines.

93s

This is by far the OLDEST human sport out there

@@spangdeez498 *monkey smash*

UFC 3 and 4 are a blast.

You’re crazy lmao

Dadest man on the planet!

That TOOTH at 8:09 ....

@dkkkkk00 well my bad I don’t keep up with every little random thing like that 💀 I’ve had people argue with me that Gaethje could beat DC so it wouldn’t surprise me if someone actually thought Max could beat DC

@@trevorcopeland867 the Max vs DC thing has been goin on for years now. At almost every pre & post fight press conference Max would jokingly bring up fighting DC. There are RU-vid videos about it and they’re really funny.

BJJ practitioners would have still dominated the UFC if it never evolved.

They booed because they wanted the sumo guy to continue

They also bood because the Ref called a time out - and he didn't actually have the "power" to do that. It was fight until unconcious or give up - no Ref time out or Ref stoppage.

@@amcconnell6730 yea but imagine reffing the ufc1, that mfer had to of been freakin tf out once the bell rang, like he has no idea where the happy medium is between dead and knocked out 😂 the dude just panicked

Wait you guys were serious about that? - The Ref

I mean true it wasn't following through but also the dude would've gotten practically killed if it continued much longer

@Holy Kafir oh yes ofcourse multiple fights the same night. Forgot to add that in. Speaking of which, again, people think it's pretty badass when some fighters these days say they are fresh enough to fight a second time the same night after a fight. But these guys actually used to do it! No talk, all show!

No rounds or time limits either

Yeah this shyt was nuts....wildly entertaining but completely crazy. Cringe worthy.

Watch Pride. Makes UFC look like a Nickelodeon show.

MMA without these rules was pretty badass.. They should resume it except the weight classes criteria.. -- There should be no rounds -- there should be no restriction while striking & grappling except groin strike, eye gauge (biting should be allowed)..

And slayer videos XD

@@azmanabdula absolutely.

The first 10 are worth watching 100%

Totally agree, the competitors start morphing all into the same style after around the first 10. They are gold.

9 was terrible. Open hand strike instead of close fists.

Mr. Gordeau missed his crotch by about three feet! What horrible accuracy. * According to Jim Brown lol

😂😂😂😂😂

How cool is that

Good for him

His name? Albert Einstein

That's awesome man!

thats really cool

sounds good, grand-dad.. now don't forget the prune juice

@@tpuuup I'm not even 40, you pup go drink your juice box.

to be fair, i bet the fight would have gone a whole lot differently if his wild charge actually took Gordeau down lol.

yeah all the Sumo guy had to do was literally just fall on the other guy

There's a 40for40 podcast on the first UFC (War Of The Worlds). The whole idea was that it was 8 different disciplines and the best would win. No rules, more or less. I'll give you one guess which martial art won. But the entire journey to this point and the behind the scenes information (I believe they ran out of ambulances) is really worth a listen.

@@phreshmunkey The whole thing was designed by the Gracies to make Gracie Jiu Jitsu look good. That's part of why they put Royce in there instead of the family champ Rickson. Rickson looked like a monster, he was big and jacked. Royce looked like an accountant. If a guy who looked like Royce could get in there and win against these monsters, it would do a lot to promote Gracie Jiu Jitsu.

feel bad for the guy? r u sure you watched the hole video .

It was definitely awesome. Only issue is that the majority of these guys were very far from the best representatives of their fighting styles. Still a great show though.

Real life Street Fighter II

When I saw teila I realized my sexuality he was so hot and him being almost naked was incredible he was hotter than Brad Pitt but not Arnold Schwarzenegger

It was an infomercial for Rorion Gracie's jui jitsu. There was no way they would have let anyone compete in the UFC to make them look bad....

@@VultureLivesAgain yeah i want to see Karelin vs Royce or Geroge Foreman and Tyson vs Royce

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People don’t understand that he basically ate a full powered kick to the face while he was grounded then ate a punch flush under the eye. I heard gerards ankle shattered. If the corner didn’t end it how could Gerard hurt that monster.

@@thenewage9723 yeah. I was speechless when I heard the Clap.. just wow

Not easy to ko a 410 pounds person. You need more than 1 kick to the face

White guy kicked him across the head and made him cry.

Simpsons 😏?

Now homer... don't u eat this pie!!!!

He's upset the fight was stopped yet he was about to get ring stomped. I wonder if he's still alive with all that fat.

All the most effective shit is ruled out as being too brutal lol. You can do your single leg takedown and rear naked choke all you want, in a street fight you stick your thumb in his eye, kick him in the balls and headbutt the cunt 😂 if he goes down you play penalty shoot out with his head to make sure he stays down 😂

@@SamFreedom just Google'd him, he's still kicking aged 53, he's an actor who's had a few roles in film and on TV

Fighting boils down to literally hundreds of elements

@@Camberwell86 thx wonder if her got his tooth replaced

just a clean shot, we used to hit each other like that in 8th grade man

@@daveyjoseph6058 LOL 8th graders are 1% of what a grown ass ufc fighter is.

@@pfanzers really? I thought they were about the same level of skill. Who woulda thought

The punch in the rush wobbled him and he fell! The kick sealed it done! Totally stunned! Wtf! The last punch just did brain damage and sat him back down further! The next 3 punches were unconclacuois, then brain bleed then death with any 3rd punch after the last punch. Sorry MOKES, but your ass GOT FUCKING SMOKED!!! 🫣🤣🤣🤣

@@daveyjoseph6058 when you were in 8th grade I don’t think you would be 6’5 and 210lbs or 6’2 and 400lbs+😂

Fights rarely went past 5 minutes back in the first few shows

And also completely illegal in modern rules as he kicked a downed opponent. lol actually that really took me by surprise, the skinny white dude just blasted him in the face with a kick while he was down on the mat. First ufc fight also the most illegal (Edit): he was completely ko’d and they considered keeping the fight going lol

@@bw2020 You were allowed to do some crazy shit back then! Groin strikes, HAIR PULLING, bending their fingers.

@@bw2020 But it wasn’t illegal at all they’re just going by the unified rules at the time 🤷‍♂️

@@garbageworld9367 the only rule were no groin shots, no eye gouges, no biting

Did you notice the NAZI salute as he entered the cage?

@@ryannath85 dude yea wtf was that all about

That kick was on nose, but not the punch before he fall, upercut under the eye.

@@ryannath85 Hahahah, wtf. How did they even allow it?

@@purritto3779 It was the first UFC and in 1993 I don't think the background check was very thorough.

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NO WAYYYY AHHHAHHA

lol

Word, back when DC had that Africa colors hat in college... and didja see?? Joe Rogan has hair!!

🤔 ...I bet DC was pretty good at football back then huh

How did they sell this out tho it was the first... Damn

@@itaachiii Well i mean, who won't pay to see 2 maniacs fight in a cage under no rules and no time limit.

@@RayCray924 if they have no skill why would u lol... it was a disaster of a fight tbf

@@itaachiii You're saying that cuz today we're spoilt. Imagine if there were never any organised fights and then this was about to happen.

The flying tooth actually landed on the movie producer who was there to see if this had potential for the silver screen..he passed

That’s unwatchable

@@MattykVT yeah, it's nasty.

UFC should've remain like that today

@@user-fm5sg3ls5b 4 sure

@@user-fm5sg3ls5b not gonna get sanctioned in many states/countries though

Apparently it's not his face

Figured it was his ankles