Davie met Rorion Gracie in 1991 while researching martial arts for a marketing client. Gracie operated a Brazilian jiu-jitsu school in Torrance, California and the Gracie family had a long history of vale tudo matches?a precursor of mixed martial arts hypervenom pas cher in Brazil. Davie became Gracie's student.
In 1992, inspired by the Gracies for action video-series made by the Gracies and featuring Gracie jiu-jitsu defeating various martial-arts masters, Davie proposed to Rorion Gracie and John Milius an eight-man, single-elimination tournament with a title of War from the mercurial pas cher Worlds. The tournament would feature mma fighters from different disciplines facing each other in no-holds-barred combat to see which martial art was truly the best which replicated the thrill of the matches Davie saw on those videos.[5] Milius, a noted film director and screenwriter, in addition to a Gracie student, agreed to function as the event's creative director. Davie drafted the business plan and twenty-eight investors contributed the initial capital to start WOW Promotions using the intent to build up the tournament into a television franchise
In 1993 WOW Promotions sought a tv partner and approached pay-per-view producers TVKO (HBO), SET (Showtime) and also the Semaphore Entertainment Group (SEG). Both TVKO and SET declined, but SEG ? an innovator in pay-per-view television which in fact had produced such off-beat events as a mixed-gender tennis match between Jimmy Connors and Martina Navratilova ? became WOW's partner in May 1993. SEG contacted video and film art-director Jason Cusson to design the trademarked "Octagon", a signature piece for the event. Cusson remained the Production Designer through UFC 27. SEG devised the reputation for the show because the Ufc.
Inspired by vale tudo competitions in Brazil, the UFC held its first competition in Denver, Colorado in 1993. Showcasing fighters of various proficiencies?including boxing, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, wrestling and Kick boxing, amongst others chaussure de foot mercurial the UFC sought to identify the most effective martial art in a real fight. Over time of political backlash, the UFC gradually underwent reform by embracing stricter rules and having sanctioning with State Athletic Commissions.
With a cable-television deal and expansion into Canada, Europe and new markets within the Usa, the UFC by 2010 has gained in popularity, together with greater mainstream-media coverage. As of 2010 viewers can access UFC programming on pay-per-view television, Spike in the United States and Canada, on ESPN in the uk plus 33 other countries worldwide.