​In a London belonging to a long-dead generation, someone coined the street name “China White” for heroin of such quality it could only have been imported from Southeast Asia. By the early 2000s, the term was so mainstream it appeared in official police reports … but it still made for a cool name for a nightclub.The original China White club was located at 6 Air Street, in the narrow strip of West End London between the famous Piccadilly Circus and upscale Soho. In the summer of 2002, it was a place of burgundy velvet seats, restrooms stocked with expensive perfumes, and where 20-somethings were discovering a relatively new “energy” drink called Red Bull mixed well with vodka.AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisementChina White was a place where everyone could fit in as long as they had a combination of money, fame and beauty. As the site of UFC 38’s afterparty, it also remains infamous for one of the most violent and legendary brawls in the almost forgotten history of the UFC.The ferocious street fight featured three future UFC Hall of Famers, UFC champions, an infamous career criminal and literally a busload of MMA fighters brawling with members of the London underworld as well as local supposed tough guys. When the violence was finally contained, more than a dozen men would be sprawled out, bleeding and choking on their teeth in the gutters outside China White.One man was so deeply unconscious, he didn’t flinch when a taxi ran over his arm.But UFC 38 was so much more than the street fight that became internet lore. The UFC’s debut UK event — UFC 38: Brawl at the Hall, July 13, 2002 — featured the promotion’s first television deal; the venue freaking out that the UFC wasn’t, in fact, fake wrestling; a rematch of a fight so cinematic that the WWE copied it; and one of the most heartbreaking human interest stories in MMA history.AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisementMore than just the answer to a trivia question as to the first UFC in the UK, UFC 38 is a forgotten milestone on the sport’s road from human cockfighting to conventional sport.UFC 38, held in London’s fabled Albert Hall, holds an infamous place in MMA history.(Sean Dempsey – PA Images via Getty Images)When Dana White and his partners Lorenzo Fertitta and Frank Fertitta III took control of the UFC in January 2001, the UK was an immediate target.”You guys over here love fighting,” White told a room full of British reporters who’d reluctantly accepted the assignment to cover the UFC’s first-ever press conference in the UK. The venue for the launch event was a London sports bar called Shoeless Joe’s, named, bizarrely, after a U.S. baseball player born in 1887 that very few Londoners would ever have heard of.AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisementPerhaps that’s why Shoeless Joe’s went out of business so quickly. Many of the journalists at the establishment that cool spring day, already grumbling to each other about having to write about so silly a sport, probably thought the UFC was an