Top 10 UFC Most Brutal Knockouts

Here are the Top 10 UFC Most Brutal Knockouts and a bit about UFC.

When it comes to a fistfight, it’s always you versus the other man (or, in the case of a bar fight, the other man and all his friends). Maybe you’re a former Golden Gloves fighter, and the odds swing in your favor. But maybe he’s a bouncer with 50 pounds on you. The odds slide the other way. The point is that when it comes to a fight, one of the most primitive actions of man, there are few rules and no time-outs. At its most basic, it’s on this philosophy that the UFC got its start.

Fighting styles have evolved in every culture. Sure, we associate martial arts with Asia, but Greeks had wrestling; the Scots, their claymores and kilts; and amateur boxing took shape in England. In the 20th century, this was settled in world wars and in drunken fistfights in World Cup host cities. But the Ultimate Fighting Championship genius is that it standardized a means of letting guys fight to find out which one and from where would be the best.

But all that is esoteric, and if you’re starting with the facts, it begins when an advertising exec saw a grainy Brazilian video of martial arts students beating up other students from different disciplines. Art Davie proposed a one-night tournament based on the concept, a one-on-one bracketed battle royale that would pit style against style and decide, once and for all, which martial art reigned supreme. Davie took his idea to the founder of the video’s martial art, which would generously be called a New World hybrid of a Japanese style. Thus, Rorion Gracie, eponymous founder of Gracie Jiu-jitsu, and Dirty Harry director John Milius joined to produce the event. Almost 30 investors joined together to throw the first Ultimate Fighting Championship held in Denver, Colorado, on November 23, 1993. It was the modest start of a new era.

The Rules

The UFC’s rules and the format changed substantially over time. The one constant has been its cage-like structure in which its fighters square off. The octagon, referring to its eight-sided shape, was there from UFC 1 and continues to the present, becoming so ubiquitous that the word is practically synonymous with the UFC itself.

At UFC 1, competitors were instructed to not bite, pull hair, or hit each other in the nuts. But that was about it. A single ref within the octagon commenced bouts and ruled the winner due to submission (read: a kind of crying uncle) or knockout. But there were no rounds, weight classes, or time limits; in fact, this glaring weakness was only corrected after its fifth event, in which a Superfight was ruled a draw after more than a half-hour stalemate. Really, the fans lost. Over time, this was refined, and today, UFC fights are comprised of three or five five-minute rounds, depending on whether it’s a regular match, headliner, or championship bout.

The rules themselves were also refined over time. While the UFC initially grew more laissez-faire after its first event, briefly allowing groin strikes (the guy from Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery gets hit with one of the most brutal seven-counts you’ll ever see), it quickly adopted more control to receive sanctioning from governing bodies around the U.S.

The results of these refinements led to the establishment and gradual updating of The Unified Rules of Mixed Martial Arts, which eliminated most dirty pool, from head butts to fish-hooking, pile-driving, back-of-the-head striking, and just about anything else you’d see on a professional wrestling stage when the ref’s back is turned. The Association of Boxing Commissions ratified it in 2009.

Shoes were banned, and padded gloves were added, weight classes were established and then expanded, a 10-point round-by-round scoring system was adopted to decide matches where a submission or knockout was not achieved, and while in the middle years of the organization, fighters tended to have the musculature of superheroes, a UFC and U.S. Anti-Doping Association deal was struck in 2015 that has, if not eliminated performance-enhancing substance use, at least curtailed its excesses while catching the odd dumb fish. (There is still plenty of dumb fish, as seen on UFC’s sanctions list.)

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