There is no knowing whether anyone in the BCCI is a fan of either Charles Darwin, Benjamin Franklin or Albert Einstein. Supreme Court judges definitely are, going by the opening paragraphs of the 143-page judgement issued by the two-man bench of Chief Justice TS Thakur and Justice FMI Kalifullah. The three mighty minds were quoted when discussing humankinds resistance to change, with the bench recognising that the BCCIs strident objections to the Lodha committee recommendations were meant to protect a continuance of the status quo.The Supreme Courts final order directly addresses and proceeds to upturn the BCCIs objections to the Lodha recommendations, which detailed organisational reform within Indias richest sporting body and crickets strongest board. The court accepted both the Lodha report and its recommendations with a handful of minor modifications and clarifications. This marks the end of three years of miscalculations by individual office-bearers, and collective decision-making by the BCCI that began with the arrest of three cricketers in May 2013.What happens next? In real terms, the day-to-day operations of Indian cricket will keep running. Like the Lodha report, the Supreme Court order once again separates governance from operations. The operational BCCI continues on its way, now armed with a CEO, an ombudsman, an ethics officer, and a full-time professional auditor. What has been rigorously shaken, with nuts and bolts now left rattling, is the existing frame of the BCCI, which is less stainless steel and more rusted metal.The order lays down a fairly watertight list of strictures for aspiring cricket officials, focusing on what posts they can hold in cricket administration, particularly at the highest level, and for how long. The much-advertised love for cricket of many seasoned, or indeed newly appointed, cricket officials will now be put to the test. The court has ordered that the recommendations be implemented within six months - by the time Justice TS Thakur serves his full term and hands charge for the BCCIs restructuring to the very individuals who held up a mirror to the board: Team Lodha.The Supreme Courts order was fairly considerate when hammering home a few disputed recommendations. Fussed about how to fund a players association? the court asked. The funding is your prerogative, but there has got to be an association. Angry about a cooling-off period between two terms in top BCCI posts? Arrive at a conclusion on how to handle this, but the cooling-off period stays. IPL franchises on the all-powerful IPL governing council? Lets ask the Lodha committee to work out if this is not a conflict of interest and then see what they say.The court divorced itself from issuing unyielding orders on matters that were not strictly within the Lodha panels reformative and recommendatory ambit. Like controlling the amount and nature of advertising on cricket broadcasts on television by reworking existing deals (this recommendation was dead on arrival on the grounds of common sense alone), or knotty legislative issues like legalising betting or placing the BCCI under the ambit of the Right to Information Act.Weighty, monumental (and cataclysmic for the BCCI), the Lodha report order carries much significance. If the BCCI, a financially self-sufficient, self-sustaining and globally significant sports body - and therefore an anomaly among Indian sports bodies - can be made answerable to writ jurisdictions, its functioning taken apart in court, so can any other Indian national sports federation. These bodies that run Indias Olympic sports, largely supported by public money, have previously been considered untouchable, backed as they are by political bigwigs and legal luminaries. The Thakur-Kalifullah bench has cited the governments National Sports Development Code 2011 - which applies to all nationally recognised sports bodies - in setting an age limit of 70 for the BCCIs office-bearers. What applies to other sports bodies must work for the BCCI. So too, what has been ordered upon the BCCI, could be wrought upon any other Indian sports body.An example has been made of the BCCI, until now considered well above these shambolically run associations, both financially and organisationally. No matter how much financial strength and global clout a sports body can acquire, it must work alongside with, rather than supplant, good governance, transparency and accountability.The BCCIs response in this affair from the outset - despite the presence of many weighty shining legal lights on its roster and on its side - was heavy-handed. Both in court and in the public. The boards first response was to let out a few high-volume sound bites: that the recommendations were not binding, that the BCCI was a private body and so it could not be approached as if it were a public enterprise. It was this line of argument that occupied far too much of the courts time, and must have set the judges teeth on edge.One of the more revealing parts of the order says: Neither BCCI nor anyone else has assailed the findings recorded by the Committee insofar as the deep rooted malaise that pervades in the working of the BCCI is concerned… either in the affidavits filed or in the course of arguments at the bar. Which in laymans language means that neither the BCCI nor anyone else has strongly criticised the Lodha committees findings with reference to the flaws in the BCCIs functioning, neither in written affadavits filed or verbal arguments made before the bench. The BCCI was not righteously claiming to having been unfairly criticised with reference to its functioning. What it was saying to the highest court of the country - and the highest judge in that court - was that you do not have the right to tick us off.The better option could have been to respond strategically to the Lodha committee report from the very beginning, by picking out early the recommendations they thought were the least amenable to implementation, or inconvenient, and work with that, approaching the court with humility rather than habitual hubris. They had a better chance of arguing the age limit and tenure continuity at length than they did about private vs public and the freedom of association as pertaining to the state associations. That too in a climate surrounding the BCCIs laissez faire attitude to the Goa Cricket Associations multiple scandals until the last month or so and the shenanigans of DDCA, also exposed in court.The BCCIs legal eagles should also have been able to sense two moods - that the BCCIs public image was far from the best to start with, particularly in terms of its engagement with the judiciary. Secondly, in the past few years, Indias courts have been particularly forceful in handing out judgements pertaining to governance or administration, a trend that has been referred to as judicial activism (or, in the words of policy academic Pratap Bhanu Mehta, judicial exasperation). For the BCCI it was certainly not the right time to show what would be called attitude. But show it they did.What might the BCCIs options now be? To start with, they could consider hiring a new legal team. A short-term response would be to disband the board and resume operations under a new name. Or dash off a letter to the ICC saying the Supreme Court has ordered them to accept government interference - in the form of the nominee from the Comptroller and Auditor Generals Office - at both national or state levels. Or attempt some off-court filibustering in front of Lodha to try and stall any action, till Justice Thakur retires in January and they can begin the legal roundabout all over again.But each of these counters has its counter-arguments. Besides, Mondays order says clearly that should any impediments arise the Supreme Court can be approached once again by a status report being filed.Many within the BCCI - and there are several who are well-intentioned and committed - may find their positions now rendered non-existent and their powers severely curtailed, and may well ask, How did we get here? The answer to that is simple - one mistake at a time. 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UFC 40: Vendetta (Nov. 22, 2002)Venue: MGM Grand Garden Arena, Las Vegas Main event: Tito Ortiz TKO3 Ken Shamrock,?defends light heavyweight title Of note:?Set UFC mark with $1.54 million gate; the reported 150,000 PPV buys were the most since UFC 5Why it mattered: The bad blood between Ortiz and Shamrock had been building for years and boiled over in this grudge match. The rivalry garnered interest from mainstream media outlets such as ESPN, USA Today, and Fox Sports Nets Best Damn Sports Show Period, and the event went on to outsell its more recent UFC cards by a 3-to-1 margin on PPV. On the undercard, Chuck Liddell provided a sizzle-reel knockout of Renato Babalu Sobral by landing a head kick before finishing with punches. Seven total UFC champions (including Shamrocks SuperFight title) competed on the card. It also marked the debut of Joe Rogan on color commentary.9. UFC 31: Locked and Loaded (May 4, 2001)Venue: Trump Taj Mahal, Atlantic City, New Jersey Main event: Randy Couture UD Pedro Rizzo, defends heavyweight title Of note: First event with modern-day weight classesWhy it mattered: In the second event under Zuffa ownership, eight fighters who either had or would go on to hold UFC gold competed on this card. Couture-Rizzo was considered the fight of the year in 2001, Chuck Liddell recorded a first-round KO over Kevin Randleman,?and?UFC Hall of Famer B.J. Penn made his pro debut, beating Joey Gilbert via first-round TKO. Also of note, Shonie Carter?scored a highlight-reel spinning-back-fist KO of Matt Serra. The sport was growing up, and this event had a lot to do with it.8. UFC 194 (Dec. 12, 2015)Venue: MGM Grand Garden Arena, Las Vegas Main event: Conor McGregor KO1 Jose Aldo, unifies featherweight titles Of note: $10.1 million gate, 1.2 million PPV buysWhy it mattered: The night Mystic Mac became a living legend. During the week leading up to the main event, McGregor predicted exactly what would happen in his one-punch, 13-second KO of Aldo, who hadnt lost in a decade. The knockout snapped Aldos six-year title reign (including WEC) and elevated McGregor into the level of superstardom we see today (see McGregor-Mayweather hype). In the co-main event, Luke Rockhold took the middleweight belt from Chris Weidman with a fourth-round TKO.7. UFC 47: Its On! (April 2, 2004)Venue: Mandalay Bay Events Center, Las Vegas Main event: Chuck Liddell KO2 Tito Ortiz Of note: $1.4 million live gate, 105,000 PPV buysWhy it mattered: Immediately after the fight, Joe Rogan said, Ive never seen Chuck go at somebody with that kind of intensity. Fans clamored to see this one, but it took more than a year for the fight between the former training partners to materialize. Liddell made Ortiz feel his power at the end of the first round. In the second, Liddell threw a barrage of punches to earn the stoppage. The win, which followed a 2003 in which Liddell went 1-2, set up a legendary run for The Iceman. After coaching the first season of The Ultimate Fighter, he captured the light heavyweight title the following April from Randy Couture, part of a stretch in which he recorded seven straight wins by knockout, capped off by a second TKO win over Ortiz at UFC 66.6. UFC 71 (May 26, 2007)Venue: MGM Grand Garden Arena, Las Vegas Main event: Quinton Rampage Jackson KO1 Chuck Liddell, wins light heavyweight title Of note: $4.34 million gate, beginning of consistent mainstream coverageWhy it mattered: The end of the Liddell era, which set the foundation for the sports mainstream evolution. This was the event that proved to mainstream media that MMA and the UFC were here to stay, with Liddell gracing the cover of ESPN The Magazine during the buildup to the fight. It was notable for producing a SportsCenter debate between the UFCs Joe Rogan and boxing promoter Lou DiBella on the merits of the sport. Lets just call it a TKO win for Rogan. ESPNEWS covered the weigh-in live and provided additionall live coverage after the event.dddddddddddd The following week, Sports Illustrated ran a cover featuring the headline Ultimate Fighting: Too brutal or the future?5. UFC 196 (March 5, 2016)Venue: MGM Grand Garden Arena, Las Vegas Main event: Nate Diaz?SUB2 Conor McGregor Of note: $8.1 million gate,?1.5 million PPV buysWhy it mattered: Pandemonium! Originally set as a lightweight superfight between McGregor and 155-pound champion Rafael dos Anjos, RDA pulled out with a broken foot. On 11 days notice, Diaz stepped into the limelight. Never has more noise been made at a news conference held at a UFC gym than the madness produced at their first one in Torrance, California. The fun continued all the way to fight night, when Diaz did what seemed impossible: beating the seemingly infallible McGregor. Diaz burst into stardom after the fight, while McGregors wallet and profile didnt seem to take a major hit despite the defeat. Not to be forgotten, Miesha Tate pulled off one of the most dramatic submission victories in title fight history by choking?Holly Holm unconscious in the fifth round to capture the womens bantamweight title.4. UFC 129 (April 30, 2011)Venue: Rogers Centre, Toronto Main event: Georges St-Pierre UD Jake Shields, defends welterweight title Of note: 55,724 attendance, $12.075 million gateWhy it mattered: The first stadium show, with an attendance record that held until this past Novembers UFC 193 in Australia. The live-gate record still stands. In the UFCs first foray into Ontario, Canada, GSP owned the night in his native country with a unanimous decision victory over Shields. The card marked the final fight in the Hall of Fame career of Randy Couture, who was knocked out by Lyoto Machida with a jumping front kick. It also featured the UFC debuts of Jose Aldo and Benson Henderson, who came over from the WEC. The UFC has gone on to hold just three other events in stadiums (UFC on Fox: Gustafsson vs. Johnson in Sweden, UFC 193 in Australia and UFC 198 in Brazil).3. UFC 189 (July 11, 2015)Venue: MGM Grand Garden Arena, Las Vegas Main event: Conor McGregor TKO2 Chad Mendes, wins interim featherweight title Of note:?First event with Reebok kits, $7.2 million gateWhy it mattered: It was a magical night in Las Vegas, with amazing finishes in all five PPV bouts. Starting with Thomas Almeidas flying-knee KO of Brad Pickett, the momentum kept building through Gunnar Nelsons submission and Jeremy Stephens own flying-knee KO. In the co-main event, welterweight champion?Robbie Lawler and Rory MacDonald put on an all-time classic, with Lawler getting the stoppage in the fifth round while down on the cards. Before the main event, the atmosphere at the MGM Grand was electric, with Aaron Lewis and Sinead OConnor performing the walkout songs. McGregor rose from hyped contender to champion by knocking on Mendes, setting off a stream of Irish fans to celebrate in Vegas that night.2. UFC 1 (November 12, 1993)Venue: McNichols Arena, Denver Main event: Royce Gracie SUB Gerard Gordeau to win eight-man tournament Of note: The Gracie family reigned supremeWhy it mattered: From the very first bout of the night, with Gordeau kicking?Teila Tuli?square in the face 26 seconds in, combat sports changed forever. I think commentator and Pro Football Hall of Famer Jim Brown put it best in his analysis by saying, I think it was totally on the face. Awesome, awesome. Tooth came out. But the card is best remembered for putting Gracie Jiu-Jitsu and the UFC on the map. 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