Less obvious ones; Zinoviev beating BJJ fighters in Battlecade, Don Frye being the prototype wrestler/boxer that Liddell, Rashad, Koscheck, etc followed; Lindland, Hendo, and Randy forming team quest and creating the dirty boxing style; The rising importance of world class atheticism and preparing like a real profesional athlete rather than a "martial artist", Trigg elbow ****ing JJ Machado being an early sign, GSP being the epitome of profesional athlete in MMA.
Well lets be honest, he cant hang with world class boxers. He can certainly compete at a high level in wrestling and BJJ though.