In terms of a first impression, there can be nothing eerier than the image of Lee Murray walking to the Octagon dressed as Hannibal Lecter ahead of his UFC debut against Jorge Rivera on January 31, 2004.
Kitted out in an orange prison jumpsuit and mask, essentially muzzled, Murray looked calm and comfortable, unnervingly so. It seemed, in that moment, as though there could be no more appropriate way for him to enter the Octagon than to do so looking like a famous serial killer.
In hindsight, it was a less of a ring walk and more of a warning.