Martial Monday: Introduction to MMA

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You know that my specialty is Muaythai, but MMA has been becoming more popular so in this post, I would like to introduce MMA to those who are not familiar with it yet...

MMA is a short form of Mixed Martial Art, one of the most popular combat sports. MMA is becoming popular for the first time in the USA in 1993. The general rues of MMA is that the contestants are allowed to use any kind of martial arts and all of fighting techniques to fight, so this makes MMA the combat sport that has the format very much similar to real combat situation. This allows anyone who has different kind of martial art backgrounds to fight without boundaries and due to this reason, it was quickly becoming more and more popular...

In the USA, MMA was first introduced by the organization called Ultimate Fighting Championship.(UFC) At that time it was first introduced, there were quite minimum rules so the contestants could fight freely without any measure to protect their safety. However, in later stage, many rules of MMA were introduced with the major purpose of safety and an increase of the excitement of the competition.

The development of MMA rules can be divided into 2 different stages; pre-modern and modern MMA. We will not talk too much about the pre-modern rules as there was a big change up until now, but, as mentioned earlier, there were not many rules in the pre-modern MMA.

For the modern MMA, new rules have been applied. This includes the name of competition itself which was no longer an MMA fight, but at present time known as Ultimate Fighting Championship (follow the name of UFC, the organization that first introduced and formally promoted this kind of combat sport). However, people are still aware that it is MMA. In fact, there are some other organizations that organize and promote MMA as a formal combat sport competition in other regions such as Korean "FMC" (Fighting Mania Championship), Brass Knuckles Promotions MMA promotion which were held in the northwestern United States, and so on.

 

As a result of rapid growth in MMA competition in both the USA and all other countries worldwide, there are millions of people who love MMA and are real fans of it. There are also a lot of communities and forums as well as information about MMA along with thousands of competitions organized all around the world. It could be said that now MMA is also one of the top combat sports among others such as Muay Thai, and Kick boxing competitions. It is also very exciting for me to get to know about it because while I am the real fan of Muay Thai and looking for good Muay Thai and K-1 fighters, on the other side of the world of combat sports, there is MMA which seems to be very interesting also.

Website review

www.ufc.com

This is the website of Ultimate Fighting Championship or UFC. One of the most famous MMA combat sport organization. It could be said that it is the most popular and well known among Americans and many of MMA fans around the world. The website, of course, contains all information that you want to know about UFC and MMA. I could not tell which section I love the most because they all seems to be interesting. However, I would like to comment that the design and layout of the website may be a little confusing to find out what I want, perhaps it’s because of loads of information in there.

Youtube

I have no specific issue of this video. Just bring up any video of MMA fight to see what it is like and also to get to know more about it. I picked this video because I think there are some interesting aspects. As I am really new to MMA (may be like many of you who are reading this review) so I still wonder why competitors are very much focusing on hugging, throwing and punching, even though they are allowed to use some other techniques. However, it is just an introduction and there will be more interesting fights coming up.

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