Back in 1998 people still walked around with cell phones the size of television remotes, you could still smoke in pubs and Concorde turbo-jets still cut across the sky. The UFC was a very different place too still teething as a promotion and still dealing with the problems that come with advertising a sport as being no holds barred. Mark Coleman was the organisations very first heavyweight champion, earning his belt after submitting Dan Severn (a man who ridiculously was active 1994-2013) at UFC 12. Coleman was a strong heavyweight with superhero-esque muscles. Though he could be dominant at times, he wasnt used to spending prolonged amounts of time in the Octagon so when he attempted to defend his title for the first time against Maurice Smith and couldnt finish him, Coleman started to flag. This resulted in him losing the title. Coleman didnt fight again until UFC 17 where he was scheduled to fight Randy Couture for the heavyweight title. Coleman and Couture were believed to be very much cut from the same cloth both tough as nails, both NCAA division 1 wrestlers and practically the same age. This bout was set to be huge for the UFC as it would determine who the king of MMA-wrestling was and wouldve been a huge PPV seller. The two men had faced one another in a freestyle wrestling match in the 1989 Olympic Festival at Oklahoma State University; Coleman won by just a point and so there was unfinished business between the two men. However, Captain America suffered an injury prior to the fight leaving Coleman to face Pete Williams and take a loss from the kick heard around the world. Surprisingly, Coleman and Couture didnt fight each other until 2010 twelve years after their first scheduled fight. Though Couture won by submission in the second round, no questions were really answered as neither man was in their prime; MMA fans just felt a pang of disappointment that we hadnt got to see the men clash back in 1998.