This Dutch freefighter put UFC on the map: ‘The organization has become great partly because of me’ | Martial arts

Conor McGregor, Khabib Nurmagomedov and Nate Diaz. Today, the greatest UFC fighters are known to the general public. However, Gerard Gordeau’s name will not ring a bell for many. Thirty years ago, the native of The Hague paved the way for the champions of the present. At a time when Mixed Martial Arts did not yet exist and the brand new martial arts organization did not yet have any rules, Gordeau was the big man.