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TehSpectre
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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 two 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): Weili Zhang
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Flyweight (125 lbs): Henry Cejudo
Women's Bantamweight (135 lbs): Amanda "Lioness" Nunes
Bantamweight (135 lbs): VACANT
Featherweight (145 lbs): Alexander_Volkanovski
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Lightweight (155 lbs): Khabib Nurmagomedov
Welterweight (170 lbs): Kamaru Usman
Middleweight (185 lbs): Israel Adesanya
Light Heavyweight (205 lbs): Jon "Bones" Jones
Heavyweight (max 265 lbs): Stipe Miocic
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:
Women's Flyweight (125 lbs): Ilima-Lei Macfarlane
Bantamweight (135 lbs): Darrion "The Wolf" Caldwell
Women's Featherweight (145 lbs): Julia Budd
Featherweight (145 lbs): Patrício "Pitbull" Freire
Lightweight (155 lbs): Brent Primus
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Welterweight (170 lbs): Douglas Lima
Middleweight (185 lbs): Rafael Carvalho
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Light Heavyweight (205 lbs): Ryan "Darth" Bader
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Heavyweight (MAX 265 lbs): Ryan "Darth" Bader
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All the champs are updated. Blah blah.
See how shot Guillard continues to be!
Watch two street fighters not fight in the street!
Olol Gracie vs Shamrock III!
Bonus:
Don't fart on a guys balls.
Stop cup checking in a fight.
These are simple rules that need never be uttered because they are ingrained in man, stop it.
Steam
Oh man, it's just about time:
I don't even.
Edit: So, it seems Kimbo and Dada are both gassed by the end of the first. I'm shocked. Also, the lights went down for a split second after the end of the first. I am almost positive it was to hide a pot shot if one of them decided to fight after the bell.
I'm pretty sure Big John is pissed he has to ref this fight. He is not being nice to those two gentlemen.
It looked like Dada almost uppercutted himself in the middle of round 2.
edit: "we can't look away, don't pretend you can't either." Bravo on the doublespeak, announcer, bravo. (I'm totes serious about that)
Ken Shamrock is proud.
Edit: Dada was too tired to stand anymore and lost by sleepiness KO; he wandered away from the fight and passed out.
Honestly never laughed so hard
Steam
What a perfect night. What a lovely card. Going down in history
Steam
What an amazing finish to an amazing card.
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If we get another televised show half as entertaining as the last hour of this was, I absolutely want it
Preferably at least 6 months from now when my ribs are fully recovered from the laughter
Steam
The fact that you so thoroughly enjoyed that Bellator event and are excited to watch more mma, but for reasons completely unintended by Coker and crew amuses me to no end.
Can someone explain to me why he calls himself Dada 5000? Like, why 5000?
Dada 1-4999 was taken
either that or because it sounds cool to someone stupid enough to give themselves a number for a name
but who would do such a thing, really
Dhafir is hard to pronounce, so just say Da. Da isn't much of a name so we double it. Dada.
He was sitting around in 2005 and thought the 5000 was cool so he added it.
Dada 5000.
This is legit, btw. I watched the hype stuff about him before the fights.
I've followed the sport for years and let me tell you, the ridiculousness that occasionally happens on the fights themselves and that always happens behind the scenes is so consistently entertaining I'd recommend people follow it even if they don't enjoy or like the fights.
Some of my funniest memories ever, now featuring that whole Bellator event, include live-watching Silva get KO'd mid-taunt, following the RIZIN debacle (the peak was everybody knowing Fedor's opponent, the company swearing it wasn't him, and then choosing him at the last second anyway because they lowballed their real pick and he decided he could make more money elsewhere), and following the Wanderlei-Chael-Vitor clusterfuck (2 men announced as scheduled to fight, one tests positive on a drug test and retires, the other runs out the back of his personal gym when drug testers show up, and the replacement tests positive)
Steam
http://deadspin.com/report-dada-5000-was-in-critical-condition-and-his-hea-1760319953
I love south american ground karate
Dada was clearly not a professional fighter (despite his 2 fights) and it was dangerous for him to be in that ring.
I joked that he looked like he lost by TKO (Heart attack) and I was mostly right.
Aside from Marlon Moraes' title fight, the only other fighter of note is TUF alum Jamie Yaeger, forever remembered as the uber toughguy douche who quit on the stool in his house fight and was the worst.
Also a ref just failed to come to the ring to ref his fight so Big John had to do 2 in a row while Bas joked about trying to call him on his cell phone.
Wooooo
I love south american ground karate
natural instinct in that situation is to plant your palms flat on the mat and put your weight on them to balance yourself which is like the last thing you want to do if you don't want to be armbarred
the spin isn't even all that necessary once you get them to straigten out their elbow for stability
Cowboy I with the triangle on Cowboy II great sub. Would love to see more of Cerrone's BJJ I always love watching his guard he's constantly attacking.
I love south american ground karate
yesssssssss
Steam
The Era of the Circus Fights has officially begun.
ed: Right on time, guess who snuck back into the gym
Steam
I love south american ground karate
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I love south american ground karate
*sad face*
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Or Nate Diaz. Both work for me.