The entire Gracie family is the earliest pioneer of MMA due to their establishment of no-holds-barred fighting in 1920s Brazil, known as Vale Tudo. However, it was Royce Gracie w… 展开

Ken Shamrock was the second most influential of the first UFC fighters, competing in MMA since 1992 before even the UFC was founded. He entered the first UFC event as th… 展开

Mark Coleman introduced himself to MMA at UFC 10 in 1996, where he went on to defeat Gary Goodridge and Don Frye and win the tournament. He also won the UFC 11 tournament a… 展开

Dan Severn began his MMA journey at UFC 4 in 1994 and fought for 18 years until his retirement in 2012. He’s the most active MMA fighter in the history of the sport, retiring at the ag… 展开