2 questions for old school fans! Who designed the UFC Ulti-Man logo? +

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1: The story behind the Ulti-man logo used in the early days of UFC. What is the name of the graphic designer that created it? I remember people used to say it was modeled after Bas Rutten…
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2: What fighters (what image) appeared on the UFC 1 poster? The image was supplied by Rorion Gracie.

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Any help would be greatly appreciated!
 
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@HI SCOTT NEWMAN should know the answers :)
haha hey you know what I geuniely don't know the answer to this one :D usually I'm good at remembering anything from the NHB days but I don't know this one. I always thought the ulti-man looks like GSP lol, people say Rutten as well, but obviously it was used in UFC 1 and those 2 didn't come to later, Rutten came a few years later and GSP many years later.

I used to have the ulti-man t-shirt in blue color, I loved that shirt. Very similar to this one... but mine was a bit more darker blue than this one

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Hey, you callin my mans old?
haha so old I either forgot the answer or I don't know the answer lol, hope its not the forgot reason :D

I used to love that ulti-man logo, when I first saw GSP fight it reminded me of him, it looks so much like him, the way ulti-man is built and the bald head. I remember saying to my dad at the time hey that new Canadian guy looks like ulti-man :D
 
The guy on the ground is definitely Marco Ruas. You can tell by the ears and hair, most remarkably the little patch where hair doesn't fill in between the temple and forehead. Same style knee wraps as he used vs Paul Varelans as well.

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@Richard Fannin one of the users with "Richard" in their name is full of amazing old school knowledge. I think it's you so you better deliver. @HI SCOTT NEWMAN has nothing, I regret all the dick pics I sent him :mad:
It gives me something to look through while we're in playbyplay with all the UFC Ad breaks, those UFC Apex cards are brutal with the amount of ads, constant ads, only so many times I can go to the kitchen to make food haha.

I flick through them on the ads breaks, well it kills the time doesn't it, no harm :p
 
@Richard Fannin one of the users with "Richard" in their name is full of amazing old school knowledge. I think it's you so you better deliver. @HI SCOTT NEWMAN has nothing, I regret all the dick pics I sent him :mad:
Aww, you're too nice ^^ sorry about the delay, but I don't go online much these days, and since I've been missing a few fights here and there I wanted to check them out before getting the results spoiled, so I avoided Sherdog a bit...

1) Well I can tell you that the fight from the first UFC poster was from a draw between Marco Ruas & Fernando Pinduka, in a 1984 "BJJ vs Luta Livre" event at the Gilberto Cardoso gymnasium in Maracana, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, headlined by a Rei Zulu fight.
The picture was taken from this fight, sorry for the shit quality =>



I think it was probably taken from the second video, toward the end of the fight, specifically during the sequence between 3min & 4min. There are several times during that GnP session where that picture could have been snapped.
There is also a short window in the first video of 10 seconds maybe when they were in a similar position, but it's hard to tell with that quality.

2) When it comes to the "who is the Ulti-Man based on?", I don't have such a straight forward answer... when I got into MMA, the consensus among fans was that it was Bas Rutten, but there was always a small contingent of hardcore fans who claimed that it wasn't the case, according to Bas himself and other circumstancial evidences.
I honestly don't remember much outside of that... I don't think it was a specific real life dude, though.

If I look it up and find out more I'll post it here.
Cheers guyz o/
 
Aww, you're too nice ^^ sorry about the delay, but I don't go online much these days, and since I've been missing a few fights here and there I wanted to check them out before getting the results spoiled, so I avoided Sherdog a bit...

1) Well I can tell you that the fight from the first UFC poster was from a draw between Marco Ruas & Fernando Pinduka, in a 1984 "BJJ vs Luta Livre" event at the Gilberto Cardoso gymnasium in Maracana, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, headlined by a Rei Zulu fight.
The picture was taken from this fight, sorry for the shit quality =>



I think it was probably taken from the second video, toward the end of the fight, specifically during the sequence between 3min & 4min. There are several times during that GnP session where that picture could have been snapped.
There is also a short window in the first video of 10 seconds maybe when they were in a similar position, but it's hard to tell with that quality.

2) When it comes to the "who is the Ulti-Man based on?", I don't have such a straight forward answer... when I got into MMA, the consensus among fans was that it was Bas Rutten, but there was always a small contingent of hardcore fans who claimed that it wasn't the case, according to Bas himself and other circumstancial evidences.
I honestly don't remember much outside of that... I don't think it was a specific real life dude, though.

If I look it up and find out more I'll post it here.
Cheers guyz o/

Wow, this is amazing! I can't believe you even tracked down the fight videos.
 
It was probably whatever designer worked there at them time. Can't really find any source for it.
 

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