Mma Informative Speech

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.

When you hear of UFC (Ultimate fighting championship) or MMA (mixed martial arts) many people would probably think of a brutal, bloody, barbaric cage fight with no rules, battling until someone is knocked out cold. However, this image or stereotype is far from what MMA really is. Early last year there was much controversy when the Andrews’ Government legalised cage fighting in Victoria. This ruling enabled the UFC 193 to be held at Etihad stadium in November 2015 which brought over 40 million dollars to the local economy. Anti-violence advocates called for these UFC events to be banned in Australia. These narrow minded people have a very distorted view of what UFC actually involves. Mixed martial arts

Wrestling is a sport with a long history and offers many benefits in today’s world. This paper will explore the history of the sport of wrestling as the sport of wrestling has been around since biblical times. There are many facts and myths about wrestling. This paper will take you through the history of wrestling and address the benefits it provides to children and athletes of modern times. Wrestling can change lives, let’s learn how.

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 viewers are the main encouragement for boxers to keep fighting or to fight harder. “They don’t come out to see a tee party,” said Mike Jacobs evenly. “They come out to see the knockout. They come out to see a man hurt. If they think anything else, they’re kidding themselves” (qtd. in

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.

Without fighting the sport would not be the same it would be a lot more entertaining for the fans to watch because there would be no more contact. The coaches of the teams will pay the people getting in fights non stop a lot of money

This is a fight that UFC fans have been dreaming about the second their first match ended.

Elliott J. Gorn’s The Manly Art is a unique book that tells readers the origins of boxing in American culture. The book was published in 1986 by Cornell University Press, the book discussed the development of boxing and American society. Gorn takes sport history, a commonly misunderstood and misinterpreted topic and wrote a book that not only was easy to read but allowed readers to gain knowledge on the sport. Gorn says “To understand prize fighting, I have discovered, is necessarily to understand something about nineteenth-century America. Ideology, ethnicity, social class formation, violence, urbanization, gender roles, religious world views, productive relationships, all are a part of sports history in general and boxing in particular.” (Gorn, pg. 12)

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

They key year of my journey from white belt to second-degree black belt were arduous! It took a lot of discipline to stand and sit still, and physically give it my all to do it right. After all if Ralph Macchio could do it for a mere movie, I should be able to martial arts for my own sake; this is my life after

"wrestling" industries is one of the most popular sport industries right now. WWE give the biggest impact in this industries. every time i saw videos of WWE weekly event like RAW and smack down to their PPV event like Royal Rumble, Wrestle Mania, Survivor series, etc. it is a fun sport for me to watch, of course it is not as fun as few years ago when i was a kid. few years i go i watch my first MMA event on tv and i found that it is very exiting sports, the technique the fight, the atmosphere it is really different then i watch "wrestling".

The Author gives an account of some of the ‘Martial (Warrior) styles’ that are of African substance and is the true essence and mother of all martial arts. These styles were not known by their names of popularity outside their tribes and only passed down through oral tradition, initiation and training.

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

Group (S.E.G.) is an organization that specializes and establishes in assembling live Pay Per View (P.P.V.) sporting events. The various/variety of considerations, accepts the multiplicity in Martial Arts forms and mottled techniques within each. The originators of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (U.F.C.), desired to control, which one, remained, in existence as ultimately superior. The (U.F.C.) Ultimate Fighting Championship commenced, settings against challengers are into altered styles against each other, of a no-grasps-grilled/no-holds tournament, in order to discover “the Ultimate Fighting Champion.”