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In ten pages this paper presents an overview of how mixed martial arts(MMA) and Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) have evolved over thousands of years and argues the thesis that the violence has significantly decreased from its brutal ‘cage fighting’ origins. Eleven sources are listed in the bibliography.
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File: TG15_TGmmaufc.rtf
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street fights to the death or bloody public spectacles, every culture has espoused some form of combat as sport. In recent years, the worldwide mixed martial arts (MMA) and
the United States Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) have emerged as the most universally popular fighting competitions and have recently surpassed boxing and wrestling in terms of widespread appeal. Some
have labeled it "human cockfighting," but those critics are rushing to judgment (Hills, 2008, p. 45). In comparison to their historical counterparts, these are not inhumane competitions that sensationalize
blood and gore. Instead, these forms require a broad knowledge of ancient techniques including Asian judo, jujitsu, and Muay Thai, ancient Greek-style strategic boxing and wrestling, and contemporary Brazilian
vale-tudo. These fighting styles require strength, stamina, endurance, and tactical proficiency. Like the Roman gladiators of old, MMA and UFC are arena-style events the media has negatively portrayed
as cage matches that pack stadiums and offer thrills associated not with violence but with an admiration for the athletic prowess required to achieve victory. The sport of
fighting has evolved considerably since the days of the pankration of ancient Greece. A potentially lethal combination of wrestling and boxing, pankration matches were held in a confined arena
space with a referee presiding or few rules beyond the prohibition of eye gouging or biting of opponents. These were marathon battles that often resulted in the death of
at least one of the combatants. Tales of pankrationist brutality were the stuff of Greek legend. There was Milo of Crotona that in 500 B.C. took sadistic pleasure
in killing man and beast with a single blow; Theagenes that killed 800 people with his bare hands during his 1,400 victories; and the nine-foot-tall giant Rustum Zoal who took
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