The Style That Beats All Styles
I watched UFC 1 through UFC 20.
Back then, it wasn’t the polished, commercialized spectacle it is today — it was raw experimentation.
Every style on earth stepped into the cage to prove itself.
You had boxers, kickboxers, karate masters, judo black belts, wrestlers, taekwondo fighters, and sumo practitioners— all colliding in one place, all convinced that their discipline was the ultimate expression of combat.
And then came the Gracie family with Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu — small, unassuming fighters who systematically dismantled every other form.
They didn’t just win — they changed the entire definition of fighting.
After a few tournaments, everyone realized something profound:
you could no longer rely on your old system.
You had to adapt to the style that had proven itself in open combat.
That’s how mixed martial arts was born — not from theory, but from truth through consequence.
And such is the case in finance.
Every generation of market participant believes their style is the ultimate one —
the long-term investor, the swing trader, the quant, the day trader, the indexer, the macro thinker.
They each step into the arena convinced that their way is superior.
But eventually, the market exposes the style that actually works under pressure.