Here Are 3.14 Fun Facts About The UFC In Honor Of Pi Day

-There were early talks to have a moat filled with alligators and/or sharks and electrical fencing surrounding the octagon at UFC 1. I'm not bullshittin you. Here's what UFC co-founder Rorian Gracie had to say about that...

We thought of a moat with alligators. We thought of an arena with sharks around. We seriously thought about an electric fence. But we couldn't in case one guy pushed the other into the moat and he'd get chewed up. We laughed at it, but in Hollywood your mind travels and we just thought of every different possibility... Eventually I settled on the Octagon.

-Bruce Buffer holds a second-degree black belt in Tang Soo Do, a green belt in Judo, and fought as a kickboxer in his twenties, before giving up the dream due to a concussion at the age of 32.

-At the start of 2010, there were only FIVE weight divisions in the entire UFC! It's easy to forget how young this sport is, but it's a bit mind blowing when put into context like that! Cain Velasquez, Lyoto Machida, Anderson Silva, Georges St-Pierre, and Frankie Edgar left that year as champions.

-Between April of 2004 and