Following the draw between Royce Gracie and Ken Shamrock at UFC 5, the Superfight Championship was decided here. Shamrock submitted Dan Severn to claim the Superfight title, which functioned as the UFC’s top championship at the time. The card also featured an eight-man tournament won by Oleg Taktarov, making him the first Russian fighter to win a UFC tournament and expanding the early global footprint of the sport.