Mixed Martial Arts (MMA)

Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) provides full-contact martial arts, various combat techniques, a blend of traditional martial arts and traditions used in competitions. The use of strikes and combat techniques, fighting on the ground. People also compete in martial arts tournaments from various countries of origin.

Created by Art Davie and Gracie Rorion in 1993 as the tournament final, to find the best fighter in the world, all weights and styles. The bases of the UFC come to the tournaments Brazilian Vale Tudo. Often regarded as violent and brutal, with the fewest possible rules, the UFC allows fighters have different styles to meet and determine the "best" martial art.

Early UFC fights were like the circus games, a cage instead of a ring adversaries who trample and shoot the elbows in the neck, face bloody and terrible KO: all ingredients are that the media are interested and are rampant. Critics are many policies get involved and put pressure on the organizers.

Little by little, under duress, the UFC has to change, more rules to protect fighters, introduction of time limits and weight category, passing in front of committees sports anti-doping test, walking toward a sports and not a bloody spectacle is underway. Thanks to this change and this change of image can be detrimental to the purity of the original event, the windfall may come back, including the highly profitable televised on pay-per-view. With a lucrative contract with Fox Sports Net and now Spike TV and the legalization very recent (2006) of MMA in California, the UFC is currently in the ascendant and booming media. The UFC can now be seen in the United States and England, Canada, Japan and Brazil.

The UFC is currently based in Las Vegas, Nevada, and owned by Zuffa, company managers casino Ferttita Frank III and Lorenzo Ferttita and directed by Dana White.

MMA mixed style competitions can be traced throughout Europe, Japan and the Pacific Ocean in 1900, after the family Gracie competed in martial arts tournaments such as Vale Tudo in Brazil in 1920 and soon the subject of Mixed Martial Arts Fighting (for example, Ishu Kakutougi SEN, known as shoot in japan), organized by Antonio Inoki in Japan in 1970.

Sport won the international presence and extensive publicity in the U.S. in 1993, when Brazil won Jiu-Jitsu fighter Royce Gracie's won first Championship Series submiting all three opponents, in five minutes, sparking a revolution martial arts. Meanwhile, Japan also known for its Shoot, Vale Tudo, fighter Rickson Gracie won the tournament in 1994 and 1995, interest is a sport that gave rise to the Pride Fighting Championships in 1997, attended Rickson again and won again.

Offers based on results from the UFC and pride is rooted in two interconnected subcultures. Initially, Sci-ticket broke out in Brazil in Japanese game shows to follow. Vale Tudo began in 1920 gave "The Challenge Gracie Carlos Gracie and Hélio Gracie and later, descendants of the Gracie family. In Japan, 1970, a series of mixed martial arts, organized by the former star Antonio Inoki in New Japan Pro Wrestling, which was inspired by shoot-style movement in Japanese professional fight, which is establishing the first Mixed Martial Arts organizations Shoot, founded in 1985.

The International Sports Combat Federation (ISCFS) in May 1999 as a body in the world of MMA for the first charge. This new era began with Mixed Martial Arts, where he is recognized as the real sport. Supported by qualified staff and quality, which may differ from the sister organization of the built ISCFS boxing, kickboxing, International Kickboxing Federation (IKF) for systems development.

November 2005 in recognition of the effectiveness of the test came when the Army began to sanction Mixed Martial Arts first installment of the annual military heroes, many heroes of the army personnel also.

Sport hit a new record in popularity in North America, between December 2006 and the fight between

UFC light heavyweight champion Chuck Liddell and former UFC llight heavyweight champion Tito Ortiz, rivaling the PPV sales beating "some of the biggest events in boxing history"