So my roommate watches UFC practically every day. I obviously caught onto the excitement since I’m walking past the TV to get to the kitchen and get caught up with watching someone get their head pounded to the ground. You don’t hear a lot about old fights in history though. Mostly because back in the day there wasn’t a so called MEDIA to publish fights like we do now. Could you imagine them twittering something extraordinary back in the day? It would be pure hilarity. The fight between Andy Bowen and Jack Burke is crazy.

It was New Orleans in 1893 and the two light weight fighters where Andy Bowen and Jack Burke. Both of them had a heart of gold, and a brain of soot. The fight began with the hopes of winning $2500 dollars and the champion title. Previously the current standing champion retired so the title was vacant waiting to be filled. The rounds where a standard 3 minutes in length but nobody would have guessed they would reach 111 rounds that night. That totaled to 7 hours and 19 minutes. This has to be some kind of Guinness Book record. Apparently the referee finally felt he should stop the fight since both men couldn’t remember their own names. In the UFC currently they stop the fights much sooner. This story makes the Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) fights look like child’s play. Being covered with blood, having numerous broken bones, and knocked to the mat countless times the poor fighters both tied. LAME!