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Mixed
Martial
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Martial
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Mixed martial arts (MMA) is a full contact combat sport that allows the use of both striking and grappling techniques, both standing and on the ground, from a variety of other combat sports. The roots of modern mixed martial arts can be traced back to the ancient Olympics where one of the earliest documented systems of codified full range unarmed combat was utilized in the sport of Pankration. Various mixed style contests took place throughout Europe, Japan and the Pacific Rim during the early 1900s. The combat sport of Vale Tudo that had developed in Brazil from the 1920s was brought to the United States by the Gracie family in 1993 with the founding of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), which is the largest MMA promotion company worldwide.
Most 'traditional' martial arts have a specific focus and these arts may be trained to improve in that area. Popular disciplines of each type include:
Stand-up: Various forms of Boxing, Kickboxing, Muay Thai, TaeKwonDo, and Karate are trained to improve footwork, elbowing, kicking, kneeing and punching.
Clinch: Freestyle, Greco-Roman wrestling, Sambo and Judo are trained to improve clinching, takedowns and throws, while Muay Thai is trained to improve the striking aspect of the clinch.
Ground: Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, Submission Wrestling, shoot wrestling, catch wrestling, Judo and Sambo are trained to improve ground control and position, as well as to achieve submission holds, and defend against them.
There are five major promotions right now that push this sport.
UFC:
Wikipedia wrote:The Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) is the largest mixed martial arts promotion company in the world, which hosts most of the top-ranked fighters in the sport and produces events worldwide. Based in the United States, the UFC has eight weight divisions and enforces the Unified Rules of Mixed Martial Arts. Dana White serves as the president of the UFC while Frank and Lorenzo Fertitta control the UFC's parent company, Zuffa, LLC.
The first UFC event was held in 1993 in Denver, Colorado. The purpose of the event was to identify the most effective martial art in a real fight between competitors of different fighting disciplines, including Boxing, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, Tae Kwon Do, Wrestling, Muay Thai, Karate and other styles. In subsequent competitions, fighters began adopting effective techniques from more than one discipline, which indirectly helped create an entirely separate style of fighting known as present-day mixed martial arts.
With a cable-television deal and expansion into Canada, Europe, Australia, the Middle East, Asia, and new markets within the United States, the UFC as of 2012 has gained in popularity, along with greater mainstream-media coverage. As of 2001 viewers can access UFC programming on pay-per-view television in the U.S., Brazil, Australia, Canada, New Zealand and Italy. UFC programming can also be found on FX, Fuel TV, and Fox in the U.S., on ESPN in the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland, as well as in 150 countries and 22 different languages worldwide. UFC also carries a mobile site for on-the-go users and a Sports Bars page for fans to find places showing the pay-per-view. It is also available on the Roku streaming player.
It's current champions are:
Women's Strawweight (115 lbs): Joanna Jędrzejczyk
Flyweight (125 lbs): Demetrious "Mighty Mouse" Johnson
Women's Bantamweight (135 lbs): Holly Holm
Bantamweight (135 lbs): TJ Dillybar
Featherweight (145 lbs): Conor McGregor (olol)
Lightweight (155 lbs): Rafael dos Anjos
Welterweight (170 lbs): "Ruthless" Robbie Lawler
Middleweight (185 lbs): Chris Weidman
Light Heavyweight (205 lbs): Daniel "DC" Cormier
Heavyweight (max 265 lbs): Fabrício Werdum
Bellator Fighting Championships:
Wikipedia wrote:Bellator Fighting Championships (Bellator) is the 2nd largest mixed martial arts (MMA) promotion in the USA and the largest tournament-based MMA organization in the world. Headquartered in Newport Beach, California, the company was formed in 2008 by Chairman and CEO Bjorn Rebney. Bellator’s events are primarily structured around a tournament format that allows competitors the opportunity to fight for a world championship in their desired weight class. Fighters determine their own path by winning tournament fights until a winner from the eight man field is crowned. The tournament winner is declared the number one contender and is awarded a check for $100,000 and a shot at the reigning world champion. Bellator uses the motto “Where title shots are earned, not given...”
It's current champions are:
Bantamweight (135 lbs): Marcos Galvão
Featherweight (145 lbs): Daniel Straus
Lightweight (155 lbs): Will Brooks
Welterweight (170 lbs): Andrey Koreshkov
Middleweight (185 lbs): Rafael Carvalho
Light Heavyweight (205 lbs): Liam McGeary
Heavyweight (MAX 265 lbs): Vitaly Minakov
World Series of Fighting:
Wikipedia wrote:WSOF was formed in 2012, having signed a broadcast deal with the NBC Sports Network. This will be the third MMA promotion that NBC Sports has hosted, having broadcast World Extreme Cagefighting and Ultimate Fighting Championship events when the channel was formerly known as Versus. NBC Sports had been one of the bidders for the rights to broadcast future UFC events, but lost out to Fox. However, some journalists regarded WSOFs deal with NBC Sports to be a considerable coup for a debuting promotion, considering NBC Sports' past interest in the UFC. Upon the announcement of the broadcast deal, WSOF President Ray Sefo stated that the promotion wanted to host 8-10 events per year, whilst holding a one-year deal with NBC Sports. However, the next day, an NBC spokesman revealed that the deal only covered WSOFs inaugural event, with the option for more, should NBC hold a positive evaluation. On February the 4th 2013 it was reported by several news outlets that NBC Sports signed a 3 year deal with WSOF.
In the Summer of 2013, the World Series of Fighting quietly purchased Nicaragua’s Omega MMA and rebranded it World Series of Fighting: Central America. The promotion held its first event on July 27, 2013, headlined by former boxing world champion Ricardo Mayorga. In September 2013, World Series of Fighting purchased the Aggression Fighting Championship organization to enter the Canadian market, but it was later found out the AFC executives closed down the company to join a new organization World Series of Fighting: Canada. World Series of Fighting: Japan was created along with the newly formed partnership with Pancrase to host events in Japan, whilst plans are in place to create branches in New Zealand and Australia.
WSOF also uses a ten-sided cage for their events, unlike the UFC's eight-sided octagon.
It's current champions are:
Flyweight (125 lbs): Magomed Bibulatov
Bantamweight (135 lbs): Marlon Moraes
Featherweight (145 lbs): Lance "The Party" Palmer
Lightweight (155 lbs): Justin Gaethje
Welterweight (170 lbs): VACANT due to Palhares being a dick. Probably soon to be Jake Shields.
Middleweight (185 lbs): David Branch
Light-Heavyweight (205 lbs): David Branch
Heavyweight (265 lbs MAX): Blagoy Ivanov
Invicta FC:
Wikipedia wrote:Invicta Fighting Championships, also known as Invicta FC, is an American mixed martial arts (MMA) organization focused on female fighters. It was founded in 2012 by Janet Martin and former King of the Cage, World Fighting Alliance, International Fight League, Affliction Entertainment, UFC and Strikeforce executive Shannon Knapp. It has a strategic partnership with fellow Japanese MMA promotion Jewels.
When Zuffa, parent company of the UFC, purchased rival promotion Strikeforce in March 2011, Shannon Knapp received several calls from female fighters who were afraid of what the future might hold for them in Strikeforce since the UFC had never promoted a women's fight. As the women were calling Knapp for representation, she started looking at the issue and met Janet Martin, and between the two acquired the financial resources needed.
The term Invicta, a Latin word for "invincible and incomparable", was chosen by founders Knapp and Martin since the terms invincible and incomparable are very masculine, but the term appears in the feminine form in Latin, and they thought it was a good description for women's MMA.
It's current champions are:
Atomweight (105 lbs): Ayaka Hamasaki
Strawweight (115 lbs): Livia Renata Souza
Flyweight (125 lbs): Barb Honchak
Bantamweight (135 lbs): Tonya Evinger
Featherweight (145 lbs): Cristiane "Cyborg" Justino
ONE Championship:
Wikipedia wrote:ONE Championship (ONE, previously known as ONE Fighting Championship or ONE FC for short) is a Singapore-based mixed martial arts (MMA) promotion which was officially launched on 14 July 2011 by former ESPN Star Sports senior executive Victor Cui. According to CNBC, ONE Championship is Asia's largest sports media property with a global broadcast to over 1 billion homes in 75 countries. It is widely recognized as the biggest MMA promotion in Asia.
The first ONE Championship event was held on 3 September 2011 at the Singapore Indoor Stadium. The promotion has since expanded rapidly across the Asian region and gained in popularity. ONE Championship has held over 20 events to date with shows being held in Jakarta, Manila, Kuala Lumpur, Dubai, Taipei, Phnom Penh, Beijing, Guangzhou and Yangon as well as Singapore.
ONE Championship has a ten year broadcast deal with Fox Sports Asia.
It's current champions are:
Strawweight (115 lbs): Dejdamrong Sor Amnuaysirichoke
Flyweight (125 lbs): Adriano Moraes
Bantamweight (135 lbs): Bibiano Fernandes
Featherweight (145 lbs): Jadamba Narantungalag (Reigning) & Marat Gafurov (Interim)
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Lightweight (155 lbs): Shinya Aoki
Welterweight (170 lbs): Ben Askren
Middleweight (185 lbs): Vitaly Bigdash
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Holy shit, Marlon Moraes is diesel as fuck. I didn't realize he was so heavily muscled.
http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/mma-cagewriter/cung-le-tests-positive-for-hgh--receives-nine-month-suspension-from-ufc-012059151.html
Has there ever been a less surprising positive test than this one?
Gracie challenge style deal at a 10th planet in Alabama. Amazing submission at the end, never seen that one before.
I love south american ground karate
LOLOLOLOL
remember guys- its all water and shading in that picture!
The gogoplata?
Nick Diaz did one of those on Gomi once, the only time I have seen it in a big fight.
The submission is at ~10min
Derek Suboticki (@InsiderSubo)
9/30/14, 8:59 PM
This means the UFC is paying extra for HGH testing even when overseas.
And in that same vein:
He gives the guy a wet willy. It was a Friendship not a Fatality.
I love south american ground karate
why
Dude wants to cash checks, make guys looks silly and eventually be champion. Smacking around Diego Sanchez seems exactly like something he would do, especially since he won't be able to get a title shot until after October 25th (when Aldo and Mendes are fighting). For him, it's probably just a way to pass the time while he waits for his next bout.
I assume this fight will be at Lightweight, though. Pretty sure Diego has never been at Featherweight.
heres an old article from last year explaining where this originated
That was so amazing to see at the time. It was then promptly turned into a no contest when Nick tested positive for weed.
http://www.bloodyelbow.com/2014/10/2/6890955/ufc-177-pulls-in-an-estimated-125000-buys
People sigh and shake their heads.
http://www.bloodyelbow.com/2014/10/2/6894873/ufc-macau-cung-le-surprised-failed-drug-test-questions-results-hgh-steroid-evolution-mma-news
Edit: See, Geth enjoys me being a smarmy bastard.
Dude got a pint of his own blood drawn to make weight for a fight. I guess that's legal...?
http://www.bloodyelbow.com/2014/10/2/6895435/mma-news-cody-mckenzie-pint-of-blood-lose-pound-battlegrounds-one-night-tournament
hahahahahaha
How long until weigh ins involve draining all the athlete's blood while they're placed in suspended animation?
It would be a case of blood doping
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_doping
Isn't that kind of dangerous if you're already dehydrated and starving? I don't know much about weight cutting, but it kinda seems to me like it would be bad to lose a pint of blood when your body is already in such a severely weakened state.
Any real medical professional is going to lose his shit if you told him you were going to dehydrate as much as these guys do. Add in blood and it's extra insane, easily the most dangerous part of the sport and I hope they get rid of it someday, they shouldn't allow fighters to game the system as much as they are and sooner or later there's going to be a more major death that brings about the change if it ever happens.
It's interesting too fighters that cut more weight are seeing more severe concussion syndrome according to a couple reports I was reading the other day. Sounds like while hey put the weight back on it's not going back all the places it needs to go.
I love south american ground karate
His first fight back will be against #6 ranked Hector Lombard.
wha
i wonder how much these guys are worried about the new testing
lombards legs look like a bad photoshop