Mixed Martial Arts

Mixed Martial Arts

Mixed Martial Arts allows striking and grappling techniques, that means that you are allow to fight standing and on the ground, so you can use techniques from boxing, muay thai, wrestling, kick boxing, Brazilian jiu jitsu, taekwondo, karate, judo, and many other styles. Pankration is considerate the root of the MMA. Through the early 1900s various mixed style contest tookplace throughout Europe, Japan, and around the edge of the Pacific Ocean, on 1920s the Gracie Families took the Vale Tudo, a combat sport, which was developed in Brazil to USA. In 1993 the UFC (Ultimate Fighting Championship) was founded, and nowadays is the largest MMA promotion company worldwide.

The more dangerous Vale Tudo style bouts of the early UFCs were made safer with the implementationof additional rules, leading to the popular regulated form of MMA seen today. Originally promoted as a competition with the intention of finding the most effective martial arts for real unarmed combat situations, competitors were pitted against one another with minimal rules. Later, fighters employed multiple martial arts into their style while promoters adopted additional rules aimed atincreasing safety for competitors and to promote mainstream acceptance of the sport. The name mixed martial arts was coined by Rick Blume, president and CEO of Battlecade, in 1995. Following these changes, the sport has seen increased popularity with a pay per view business that rivals boxing and professional wrestling.

History

We can consider the Pankration as the root of the modern mixed martialarts. This sport originated in Ancient Greece and was later passed on to the Romans; this sport was a combination of grappling and striking skills.
No-holds-barred fighting reportedly took place in the 1880s when wrestlers representing a huge range of fighting styles met in tournaments throughout Europe. In USA the first encounter between a boxer and a wrestler in modern times took place in 1887,when the heavyweight world boxing champion enter the ring with his trainer, a Greco-Roman wrestling champion William Mulddon, and was slammed to the mat in less than two minutes.

Another early example of mixed martial arts was the Bartitsu founded by Edward William in 1899, combining, judo, jujutsu, boxing, savate and canne de combat (French stick fighting). Bartitsu was the first martial artknown that combined Asian and European fighting styles.

In the late 1960s and 1970s, the concept of combining different elements of multiple martial arts was popularized by Bruce Lee with his philosophy of Jeet Kune Do. Lee believed that “the best fighter is not a Boxer, Karate or Judo man. The best fighter is someone who can adopt an individual’s own style and not following the system of styles”this is the reason why Danna White the UFC president named Bruce Lee as the father of mixed martial arts in 2004 stating: “If you look at the way Bruce Lee trained, the way he fought, and many of the things he wrote, he said the perfect style was no style. You take a little of something from everything. You take the good things from every different discipline, use what work and you throw the restaway.”

The movement that lead the creation of American and Japanese mixed martial arts scenes was rooted in two interconnected subcultures and two grappling styles, whose names are Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, and shoot wrestling, with this disciplines two shows were created, Vale Tudo events in Brazil, and the Japanese shoot style wrestling shows.
MMA competitions were introduced in the UnitedStates with the first Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) in 1993. This sport gained international exposure and widespread publicity when Royce Gracie a jiu-jitsu fighter won the firs UFC tournament, submitting three challengers in a total of jus five minutes.

Japan had its own form of MMA discipline the Shooto that evolved from shoot wrestling in 1985, and on 1993 Pancrase was founded....