Fighting Legends Answer the 50 Most Googled UFC Questions

I'm Mark Kerr.

I'm Ryan Bader.

And I'm Bas Rutten.

My name is Oleksander Usyk.

We're here today to answer

the most Googled questions about the UFC.

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When was the UFC founded?

On November, 1993,

because I started fighting in September '93 in Japan.

And Ken Shamrock was in my dressing room,

and he was talking about UFC.

[bell dinging]

Listen, listen, listen. [group laughing]

But these guys know what's going on,

because, I just fan.

[group laughing]

How does the UFC give nicknames to fighters?

You kind of pick your own,

or have people, whatever you want.

[bell dinging] Yeah.

Yeah.

A lot of it is, my name was given to me

by a Brazilian reporter who watched the fights.

And he named it, in Portuguese, Maquina de Bater,

the machine that smashes.

And Bader, Vader.

Well, I have Darth 'cause Bader.

Yeah. Like Vader.

And my alternative was Master,

and Master Bader was not,

[group laughing]

The cat. The cat,

yeah, yeah, yeah.

Because when I was young I played football,

I stayed the goalkeeper,

and like my man put a toom!

Went like that.

Oh, he's like a cat. Like a cat.

Okay, okay, okay.

I like it.

But the second my name in a mustache is Usyk.

[Bader] Oh, yeah.

It's Ukrainian, Usyk, Usyk, this mustache.

Oh. Oh, okay.

Okay. Okay.

I see it, too.

So, you're The Mustache. [group laughing]

Cat like mustache.

The cat like mustache.

What is the Octagon's official diameter?

Is it 26?

No, 33 I believe, 33 or 34.

[alarm buzzing]

33. It depends where it is.

I believe so, yeah.

All right,

Who won the very first UFC tournament in 1993?

Oh, god, Royce Gracie.

Royce Gracie. Duh.

That's an easy answer. Oh yeah.

How does UFC determine pound for pound?

Ooh. Well, that's you guys.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

I think it's, it's a...

I believe now it's media that they picked

to do the rankings.

[bell chiming]

Yeah. Yeah.

Ah, we're nailing these, man.

This is knocking it out of the park.

[Bas] So happy.

How does UFC scoring work?

Domination.

Octagon control. Octagon control.

Aggression. Aggression,

effective striking. Effective striking.

You're gonna have a winner

pretty much every round, correct?

Yeah. And if that's a 10-9,

maybe go in there and knock a guy down a couple of times,

that'll be a 10-8.

And the totals after the three to five rounds,

they add those up,

and it could be a 30-27 winner, unanimous.

Yeah. Split decision.

A couple of different ways.

Looks have nothing to do with it.

Do UFC fighters wear cups?

Fuck yeah. [bell dinging]

Absolutely. [Oleksander and Mark laugh]

It's very important, it's very important.

You know when the referee walks over to you

and then he taps with the back of his hand,

the back of his hand. Not for fun.

He taps on it, that's the cup check.

So real quick, this is Gary Goodridge fighting down

in Brazil. Oh my God, I know.

He got his cup broken in half, plastic cup.

Yeah.

And once I saw that, I'm like, Oh, that's not good.

And, talking about cups,

I just want to throw it out there,

Gary Goodridge, again, he's in the fighting in Brazil.

That's Vale Tudo, no rules.

Yeah. You know what he did?

He went with his hand in the cup of the guy

squeezed his pelotas.

Yes. Guess who won the fight?

I'm not kidding, this happened [laughs].

This is a hard one.

A hard one. Yeah.

All right, What UFC fighter is The Rock playing?

Oh, that's a tough one.

Do you know him?

Right here, Mark Kerr. Yeah.

[bell dinging] Yeah, that's a floater.

What nickname did Mark Kerr have in MMA?

I wonder what it is.

[group laughing]

The Smashing Machine. [bell dinging]

Coming up in theaters near you.

[group laughing]

Can UFC fighters have long hair?

Yeah, they can. [bell dinging]

Yeah, you can grab it too.

Yeah. No, no you can't.

Not anymore? No.

Pussies. No.

[group laughing]

All right, Who has the best UFC record?

Ooh, that's gotta be Habib.

Yeah. He's undefeated.

He's the only undefeated guy.

How did Mark Coleman beat to become

the first UFC heavyweight champ?

Right?

It was against Dan, wasn't it?

Dan Severn? Yeah.

He would take him down, hold the hands down,

the biceps and just start freaking headbutting him, yeah.

[Mark] Yeah.

Something that he took notice of.

Yeah.

What year did the UFC introduce weight classes?

Oof.

Oh, I know!

Okay.

Ah.

Because I was officially the first UFC Heavyweight Champion.

That was it, 1998.

[alarm buzzing]

Because I fought a tournament

and that's when it was gonna be called

middleweight and heavyweight.

200 pounds and under, and 200 pounds and over.

[Mark] Yeah, yeah, yeah.

It was only two weight classes.

Yeah.

Why UFC fighters cut weight?

Oof.

My first 91 kilos, yeah?

It's a cruiserweight.

Cruiserweight, yeah. Yeah.

Why I'm start cruiserweight?

Because this weight popular only Europe,

not USA, Canada.

Okay. Yeah.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yep.

But we speak with, I guess,

listen, we start cruiserweight...

Five years we work. Yeah.

[Bader] But then... Yeah.

Yeah, but sometimes people...

Love eating more.

[group laughing]

Don't have discipline.

Yeah. Eating, drink.

Coke, lemonade, yeah. Yeah.

Like food, food, food, food, but they do it.

Oh my God.

Oh my God. [group laughing]

10 kilos, 10 kilos roll up.

Yeah. Yeah.

What fighting styles are allowed in the UFC?

Any. [bell dinging]

Anything you want.

Anything.

All right. How many UFC fights are there a year?

Ooh.

UFC fights, it's about 42, 45 shows.

Well they have, yeah, at least.

'Cause UFC contend, are you talking

UFC contenders, series, da, da, da, da, da.

Yep.

It's a lot.

Which city hosted UFC 1?

Denver.

[bell dinging] Denver, Colorado.

That's why everybody was running out of gas.

[group laughing]

Was it really, in Denver?

Yeah. They were at

87,000 feet in altitude.

Yeah, it was hilarious.

Oh, gosh.

Which martial arts did Royce Gracie use?

[Bas] Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu.

[bell dinging] It was the first time,

the first one that stopped, and then the wrestlers came.

How easy is it to get in the UFC?

It's actually quite difficult now.

[bell dinging]

It's quite difficult. Yeah.

It's a longer, it's a longer journeyman's road

to get there.

If something mentally is wrong with you,

you had a high chance to get in.

[group laughing]

Who holds a record for the fastest knockout in the UFC?

It was, it was Dwayne Ludwig before, but...

I had a 19 second knockout.

Yeah, but Dwayne had six,

and it's actually a combination I gave him.

You see me saying it to him when he,

I say 'He comes straight at you,

I want you to slip to the side, come with a cross.'

He says, Dwayne, 'I don't know why, but you gotta do this.

And the fight comes straight over, babow.

Six seconds? Six seconds.

[alarm buzzing]

Somebody beat it with four, I think.

Which submission technique became popular in the 1990s

due to Brazilian jujitsu fighters.

The armbar. Armbar.

Armbar, chokes, everything.

Trying to choke.

Mata Leao, that's the rear-naked choke.

Yeah. Yeah, anything.

All right, let's see.

Oh my god, man, I know this one.

Who is known as The Axe Murderer?

Oh yeah, of course.

Silva. Wanderlei.

Wanderlei Silva. [bell chiming]

Steven Cuadros gave him that name.

He did.

The Axe Murderer, yep.

He looks like, when he's in that mode,

I swear man, he's, he looks just like it.

He looks like murder in general.

Murder [laughs].

What were the first UFC matches like?

They were brutal.

[bell chiming]

Just, there's no getting around it, it's...

When you see Gerard Gordeau,

he was a friend of mine in Holland,

fighting a sumo guy at 555 pounds.

[Mark] Yeah. Kicks him in the legs,

guy drops on the ground

and then he kicks him in the face

and his teeth are flying next to the commentators.

Yeah. You go, Mm.

Yeah, this is real.

So what's even crazy, I watched that and stuff

and still got involved in it.

Alright. Is 'The Smashing Machine' a true story?

Hoo, boy.

You wanna take that one Mark?

Yeah, I will, actually, yes.

[bell chiming] He lived it.

I lived it, Benny's favorite thing.

I lived it so everyone can feel it.

Ooh, this is a hard one. Who's the UFC goat?

Ooh. Yeah. It's hard.

So that's the debatable part. 'cause it's, it's--

You gotta go back in time also

with Anderson, Silva and all these guys.

Yeah. And they were like,

because they can fight- No, GSP.

GSP, oh for sure. It's GSP.

GSP's probably one of the, one of the,

if somebody looks at the history,

I look at him like he's, he was the hybrid preeminent.

Yep.

That's what you were trying to be.

When Duane Ludwig knocked out Jens Pulver

who was undefeated at the time,

UFC Champion. Yeah, yeah.

GSP was fighting on the same card,

he had the fourth, it was his fourth fight.

And he was walking behind stage,

and I go, Hey, what's your name again?

I said, Hey, can I ask you something?

And he came to me, I said,

You're going to be the next world champion.

And he goes, You really think so?

I said, No, I know so, you watch,

you're gonna go very far.

And he says, Can I ask you something?

I say, Sure.

How is it that you're not afraid before a fight?

I say, Who says that?

He says, Well, but you can see.

I say No, everybody's afraid before a fight.

[laughs] You just have to deal with it.

Yeah.

Who's the best boxer in the UFC right now?

Who's the best boxer in the world is...

[Mark and Bas coughing]

Yeah.

I would say a three time--

It's my, it's my greedy belly friend, Tyson Fury.

[group laughing]

Tyson, he's a funny guy though, I like Tyson.

Listen, he's a great man.

Yeah, He's a father, husband.

[Bas] Yeah. All the way around.

He's a great man, yeah, very respected.

Who do you think the best boxer in UFC is though?

[Bas sighing]

Oh, that's a good question.

Well, the part where you go with

Pereira, maybe. Kick, kick box.

Pereira?

What about Topuria?

Oh Topuria, yeah, he's got...

Timing.

Yeah. Gosh, man,

Pereira's got great timing too, man.

His freaking left hook.

Who was the first female fighter signed to the UFC?

[Mark] Ooh.

Yeah. Ronda Rousey.

Ronda Rousey, yeah. She changed it.

Because Rousey was the one.

My, my friend was, my friend did a lot for her.

And he said to her,

he didn't ask any money in the beginning.

She says, 'Why are you doing that?'

He said, 'Why don't we go to the UFC?'

She says 'UFC don't have fighters, female fighters.'

She said They will change. They're about to.

Change it once they see you.

And he was right and she went to the UFC.

That's amazing.

And she became super dominant.

She's amazing.

What UFC division has the most knockouts?

Oof. Yeah.

Heavyweight. [bell chiming]

I wanna say heavyweight. You wanna say heavyweight,

but nowadays it's 170 and 185.

There's so many knockouts nowadays.

Who are all the double champs in history?

Double champs meaning they won it twice,

or double champs meaning they--

No, no, two belts.

Got two belts. Two weight classes.

Well, Connor.

Conor, Coulter.

Couture. Habib.

Habib.

Islam.

Islamism.

Oh, we're missing one.

Was it Amanda, did she do?

No, females, we didn't think of females.

Nunes, I think?

No, did Nunes, I think she did.

Who's nicknamed The Korean Zombie?

I only know him by The Korean Zombie.

I do too. Yeah.

I don't even know his real name.

It's the Korean Zombie. [alarm buzzing]

It's the, it's the Korean Zombie.

All right, Who was Ryan Bader's

first professional MMA opponent?

You'd never know that.

Shit. [Ryan laughing]

What are, what are the odds

of you pulling your own card, right?

Right? Yeah I know, right?

I don't even know.

[group laughing]

What was the first one?

Oh, I, I showed up

on an Indian reservation in Arizona.

Tommy Morrison, the...

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

HIV-positive boxer. Positive boxer.

Is on the card.

There was no commission and he actually changed it.

They're doing MMA and his opponent--

Was that at Mc, where was that?

Camp Verde.

Okay. And the guy,

he's like, I'm not gonna fight

unless they take wrestling out of it.

So it's kickboxing, right?

Yeah.

And then they're like, We'll try,

they gave the guy more money.

He's like, I'll do it.

Comes back, No kicks though.

Oh my God.

He's always boxing with little gloves

and he went up and beat the guy up.

Oh good, but you don't know his name anymore?

No. No.

[group laughing]

That's bad.

I think he was one and done.

What MMA technique did Mark Coleman help make famous?

The ground-and-pound? The ground-and-pound

G and P, G and P.

All right.

Which fighter was Mark Kerr's breakout performance?

Which fight? Oh, shit.

Was it-- Fabio Gurgel, man.

That was--

Fabio Gurgel, that was not [indistinct].

Which submission move is Bas Rutten most famous for?

That's the great thing,

I pulled everything pretty much off.

Yeah.

Is it the Bas Rutten neck crank?

Because I, I, I actually came up with a move

and I told everybody in the dressing room,

I'm going to win this fight with it.

And four minutes later, I had a minute and I won,

the Bas Rutten body crunch.

Actually fighters are using it now.

How many times did Mark Kerr

hold the UFC heavyweight title?

So tournament titles, I won two of 'em.

So tournament titles,

but never held the UFC title title

for Heavyweight. [bell chiming]

We'll, we'll say that you did there.

Yeah. You had two of them.

Two of them. Two.

All right.

Who was the first fighter

to defend a UFC title 10 consecutive times?

It's gotta be Anderson. Yeah.

Yeah, Anderson. Anderson Silva.

Against which fighter did Bader

achieve his fastest UFC knockout?

Oh.

This is when you've had a lot of fights, you pause.

We've all been hit a lot. You pause.

I've been in a lot of fights.

And you're like,

Hey, I beat the brakes off a lot of guys,

let me see which one of them.

Man, I don't know.

Let me see, I got so many under one minute.

Yeah, so many.

[Bas laughing]

I don't, fastest or first?

Fastest.

I don't know. Who's your fastest knockout?

I don't know.

Which move is Mark Kerr's best known for,

for finishing fights?

Smash?

Yeah, it was just a ground-and-pound.

[group laughing] Yeah it was.

What country is Georges St-Pierre from?

Le Canada! Canada!

Come on, Georges. Canada!

Oh Canada.

Who holds the record for the most UFC wins?

Oof, that could be Georges also, I don't know.

No, well, Habib.

Habib, he's got 36, I think.

That's a lot.

What's that answer on that one?

[Producer] I had Jim Miller.

Jim Miller. Jim Miller.

Yeah, he's got...

Who the fuck is Jim Miller.

Crazy MMA fighter.

It's Miller time.

What was Usyk's quote about motivation being overrated?

[Usyk] I don't have motivation, I have discipline.

[bell chiming] Love that.

It's a good one. One day I have motivation,

the second day I don't have motivation.

Don't have any motivation-

But I must go to work. Yeah, discipline.

Which UFC fighter has the most belts?

It's gotta be Anderson too, yeah?

Yeah, Anderson.

[alarm buzzing]

We got a handful more, I could speed read 'em.

What fighting style was Igor

most famous for inside the ring?

Kickboxing. [bell chiming]

I thought we knew more than we thought we knew.

[group laughing]

We've been fighters, we [indistinct],

and so I'm very happy with that.

I didn't even know my own questions [laughs].

Yeah, except him.

I actually knew more than I thought I would know,

so I'm smarter than I think [laughs].

[Bas] Pride

kicked in for one second. Pride.

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