Mixed Martial Arts (MMA)

Mixed Martial Arts is the fastest growing sport in the world. Mixed Martial Arts (or MMA) is a combat sport that combines every and any fighting technique in a bout. To look closer at this sport as a discourse community, we will break down the sport into 5 different categories. We will take a look at the goals and values of MMA, the typical fighting styles or genres of MMA, the general rules of MMA, tasks and roles of each MMA community, and the targeted audience of MMA.

Throughout world history people have enjoyed watching two men compete in hand to hand combat. Professional boxing made its debut here in America around the turn of the 20th century. Unlike boxing, mixed martial arts is a relatively new sport. Both sports are very technical and require their fighters to be in superb condition. Many fighters train all their life to make it big, but few ever get there. Although both sports are immensely popular, one stands alone as the dominant sport. In this paper I 'll prove that the sport of MMA is more technical, more exciting, and much safer than boxing.

The UFC, Ultimate Fighting Championship, belongs to the mixed martial arts industry. It is actually the largest MMA promotion company in the world. Mixed Martial Arts is a full contact combat sport. It allows the use of both striking and grappling techniques. There are numerous types of mixed martial arts including boxing, wrestling, kickboxing, karate, and taekwondo.

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Continuing on that idea, the Chinese trained men to become boxers which, then started attacking innocent people. “An anti-foreign movement known as the Boxer Rebellion, named for the martial artists that led the movement, gathered strength, and began attacking foreign

"Well, the already existing martial arts didn't qualify enough" could be made, to go on the joking way. But, this one is true. Norris created the Martial Art called Chun Kuk Do (which means 'Universal Way'), which is heavily influenced by Tang Soo Do, the art he learned while in South Korea. Chun Kuk Do has a code of honor and rules to live by. The arts have been successful, and the official site of Norris lists celebrity clients of the likes of Steve McQueen, whom he taught Karate, Bob Barker and Donny Osmond among the others. In fact, when Norris taught Steve McQueen, McQueen in turn advised him to turn to acting. The two were very close to Bruce Lee, and attended his funeral

The film Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, encompasses the importance and prevalence of martial arts as a cultural sport. Martial art is a sport that was popular during ancient times in Asia.

Mixed martial arts go all the way back to the first Olympic games of 776 b.c. (“What is Pankration”). This sport combined boxing and wrestling and was used by the Spartans and Thracians (“What is Pankration”). Back in those days these contests were to the death, but today are modernized for society and to allow fighters to fight again after a loss. This is not the only instance of the first mixed martial arts events, but there was Vale Turo in Brazil and most recently the Ultimate

The vision of the Ultimate Fighting Championship was to hold a Mixed Martial Arts event that would determine which fighting style was the most proficient. This event would pair fighters with different fighting styles, so a kick boxer could potentially fight a sumo wrestler. Over the years fighters have developed to adapt by combining fighting styles to meet the complexity of the sport. The Ultimate Fight Championship has changed significantly from its first event, to now there are weight classes, timed rounds and more regulations to prevent serious injury. Currently the Ultimate Fighting Championship is the largest promoter of Mixed Martial Arts

Unless you've been covering up under a stone for as far back as couple of years or somewhere in the vicinity, you would have seen that on account of rivalries, for example, UFC the consistent development of Mixed Martial Arts.

Often known for short as MMA, Mixed Martial Arts is a relatively new combat sport which has been gaining vast amounts of popularity recently

As a combat sport, it is a very simple fight between two sportsmen wearing gloves and other equipment, who try to win each other by having a bigger score or sending the opponent to knock-out, or by throwing punches with fists. However has very strict rules, depending on whether the sportsmen are professionals or amateurs, or , if the match is supervised by the referee, which tend to make the fights less dangerous, lower risks, resulting in less injuries for boxers and also makes for a more entertaining spectacle.

MMA). Unlike boxing, MMA has many ways to win a fight. MMA allows tapping-out or submitting,

During the Northern Zhou Dynasty Buddhism was revived and The Shaolin rebuilt. It says in Art Beyond The West by Michael Kampan O' Reilly that during the fourth and fifth centuries Buddhism became wide spread for the first time in China (126). The Tang Dynasty is when the Shaolin flourished. Thirteen warrior monks rescued the Emperors son Li Shimin from an army that was trying to take over the Tang. Once Emperor, Li Shimin named the Shaolin the Supreme Temple in all China. Shoulin kung-fu developed and advanced over the next few hundred years known as Shaolins Golden Era (Sara Naumann).

The Tae Kwon Do style of fighting is different than many other styles of martial arts fighting. Tae kwon do could best be