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Early UFC 1997 Fan Club Letter from Founder Art Davie Handwritten Rules ABBOTT

$ 2257.19

Availability: 100 in stock
  • Product: Letter
  • Sport: Mixed Martial Arts (MMA)
  • Autograph Authentication: Not Authenticated
  • League: UFC
  • Original/Reprint: Original
  • All returns accepted: ReturnsNotAccepted

    Description

    Very Rare 1 of a kind  Early 1997 Handwritten Letter on rare Ultimate Fighting Alliance Fan club logo stationary  to a fan from UFC Founder Art Davie. The content is great. I have copied it word for word below. SEG era. Great piece from the early beginnings of the UFC pre Fertittas and Dana White. Imagine owning a piece from a founding father of one the other major sports from its early days !
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    3/25/97
    Dear Mike,
    Got your letter... I appreciate your support as a fan. You raised some good points about time limits.
    weight classes, referee stoppages and alternates. Let me see if I can, In a short letter respond.  Weight classes and 4 man tournaments come about as a result of pressure from the managers and the fighters. They were complaining that it was too hard on a fighter to do 4 or 5 8 man tournaments in a year and the smaller fighters wanted a break from being matched up with the Colemans and Tanks ! We've been under a lot of political pressure. so McCarthy has been being extra careful if he feels a fighter can't defend himself. The alternate situation is not easily solved; all we can really do is have the alternate fight beforehand so they aren't any fresher than the man they replaced. Time limits are dictated by the 3 hour TV time block... they are planning to show more alternate bouts on tv ! Theres so much pressure to end the UFC from politicians busybodies and the media that we need everyone like you pulling for us.  Please stay a fan ! Ive enclosed a brochure on our "fan club" the UFA for you if you're interested. Thanks Art Davie
    Truly a one of a kind handwritten letter from one of the UFCs founders with historical content.
    The Letter will be shipped in the frame its in currently but can be removed if you wish. It is not glued in anyway.
    Please let me know if you have any questions or need more pictures
    Content discussing Big John
    McCarthy
    Tank Abbott and Mark Coleman
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    size is about 8x10 Letter head
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