Many years ago, a Sherdog writer (possibly Jason Probst), profiled Jason DeLucia.
Again, the story went that Steve Seagal issued an "open challenge" in "Black Belt" magazine.
DeLucia and a friend drove from Massachusetts to California for the former to accept the challenge.
Per the article, Seagal was not at the dojo when DeLucia first went there. Another instructor offered to fight, but DeLucia declined.
After going there a few times with Seagal not there, DeLucia gave up, and then later found out about the "Gracie Challenge".
He spoke with Rorion, tested himself in the challenge, lost, and realized that his TMA was not enough. He later trained in BJJ, and became a MMA fighter.