Bob Meyrowitz (left) and Joe Rogan in 1997

By FCF Staff

The Ultimate Fighting Championship has announced that the company’s co-founder, Bob Meyrowitz, is being inducted into the promotion’s Hall of Fame.

Meyrowitz started Semaphore Entertainment Group (SEG) in the late 1980’s, and helped found the UFC alongside Rorion Gracie, Art Davie and Campbell McLaren. The 73 year-old was quoted saying the following in the UFC’s official announcement regarding his induction:

“The entertainment business is the most honest business,” Meyrowitz said. “Only the fans choose who’s a star. You can do whatever you think you can do, but you have to see what the fans like and then you have to give them their visibility and you have to give them their visibility so that they can work their stardom.

“The other thing that I say is that people don’t watch sports; people watch people. So when I created the UFC, I knew that we had people that no one knew. So we did a tournament. And looking back, it was not really fair to ask people to fight three times in one night, but the idea was that we started with eight guys nobody knew. By the end of the night, in one night, you knew the two final fighters and you had a rooting interest.”

Meyrowitz will be inducted into the “Contributors” wing of the Hall.