Thanks to E ValC for sending in the following:
Greg Gagne son of legend Verne Gagne was interviewed by 57gold.com and claims that he and his dad invented the world of MMA. According to Greg, he and his dad pitched the idea around 1992 with a wrestling committee where his dad was on the board of USA Wrestling in Las Vegas to start a new type of wrestling which would be the Martial Arts. Randy Couture and Chuck Liddell were supposedly sat in the front audience and brought up this idea to Dana White, where White invented the UFC cause of this.
The link is http://57gold.com/interviews.asp
On that site you will see a bunch of tabs such as St. Louis, WWWF, AWA, Crockett, etc. Click on the AWA tab and that particular interview is listed as The Greg Gagne Chronicles….(part 3). It’s a 52 minute interview. The MMA claim comes at the 23:46 mark. Talks about the fall of AWA, Hogan in TNA, thinks he could take WWE, and more.
