Personal Narrative: Am I CHEF

First, there are the goals and values of MMA. We will start with the values of MMA. MMA instills honor, discipline, and integrity in fighters. Most fighters train hard, and commit themselves to learn a discipline from a master of the technique. Many of the values learned from training in MMA, carry over to fighters lives as well. The goals of MMA are up for interpretation. Promoters of MMA have a goal of selling their fights and marketing there fighters. Some promotions pride themselves as having the best fighters in the world in their

A boxer could try to unify the belt, capturing all the titles of the different organizations, but this is not likely. In the UFC, mixed martial arts ' major organization, there is only one champion for each weight class. So the heavyweight champion is just that, the undisputed heavyweight champion. Granted, there are small MMA organizations, but they are like the minor leagues in baseball. This is where most young MMA fighters get their start.

Since I was a kid I have always wanted to box and when I got older my parents finally let me box. They thought that I was going to be irresponsible and cause problems but then the summer going into ninth grade my father let me start boxing. I started off learning the basics simple combinations and how to move my feet the right way. I loved boxing at first then I grew to hate it as it got more difficult for me. My father wanted me to stay in boxing so I could learn to defend myself, but I didn’t care. At the end of my freshman year of high school, I was at the civic center with my boxing coach.  It was a warm night in May and I was getting ready to practice. The gym was filled with a lot of kids who were playing basketball. The gym was

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

Lobstering is in my blood. It is what supports my family and most of my town. I have been doing it my whole life i’ve had a lobster license since i was 8 years old which is as young as you can get one. I love summer just for lobstering season plus I like the money outcome. I hate school starting the most because it tires me out because I play football everyday except sundays and some saturdays so i have to wake up early and haul on my days off from school.

They said that they had to lower my fighting salary to $2,000 a fight, $2,000 a win. Before that I was making $8,000 a fight, $8,000 a win. So my salary dropped drastically. I was infuriated and argued and argued. They told me the stock market was crashing and a ton of people were being laid off, and I was lucky that they were still gonna pay me. By 1931, 6 million people were jobless, and the industrial production dropped by more than half. Homeless people were getting more and more common and were always begging for money that we didn't have. The banks were closing, so i had nowhere to keep all my money. I had to pay bills, and wasn't earning as much money, which caused me to ration my spending. I was still enjoying boxing, but wasn't enjoying my earnings. I was almost fighting for no reason, I defended my title 12 times and only earned $48,000. Compared to winning $192,000. I started fighting less and less, earning less money as I go. Finally after I was 125-0, I retired. I wasn't working as was living off of the $2,000,000 i had stored in my safe at my house, I was losing money like crazy and was panicking, looking for a decent paying

In my first “Who I am as a Writer” paper I stated how one of the areas that I needed to improve was writing. I went into more depth talking about how my writing is not descriptive enough and how I cannot grab the reader's attention. Even though I still need to continue making improvements, I have gotten better in both of these aspects. Compared to my papers in high school my introduction paragraphs have improved.

On February February 25, 1964 in Miami Beach, Florida, I faced off against the heavily favored Sonny Liston in the fight for the title. It had been a close fight the whole night until the sixth round. I was feeling confident and ready for the next round. When I heard the bell ding, I came out ready and came out swinging. Finally, I landed a combination of punches knocking Sonny to the ground. As the ref check on Sonny he declared that I had one the fight due to technical knockout. I had just won the World Title . I kept fighting and kept the title under my name for three years until one day came around. I had received a call from the World Boxing association and they said they were taking away my title. This is where my boxing career changed in the blink of an eye.

food, surrounded by family and friends, and how could I forget the memories made with my

In recent years boxing today is constantly compared to the past years often making the argument that boxing was better in the past. The past had names like Lenox Lewis and Mike Tyson destroying the heavyweight division fans were almost guaranteed a knock out, which like most combat sports is what most fans want to see. Today, though fans constantly get disappointed when that doesn’t happen, which makes them automatically declare boxing’s past was and always will be better than it can ever become. The other side of that argument is the declaration that boxing is dead. Consequently, the heavyweight division in the past was phenomenal, there is no way to dispute that, but it should not constantly be mentioned when a fight doesn’t end with a knockout.

Time limits, protective gloves, banned techniques lists, and many more were added in order for society to accept it and this allowed the UFC to advertise more as a sport instead of a blood-sport. The only problem after the UFC and MMA became legal in many states was attracting attention. In the early days the sport was not profitable due to the ban in almost all U.S states so the original owners sold the company. Dana White, Frank, and Lorenzo Fertitta “…spent $2 million to buy the Ultimate Fighting Championship…” (Anderson). White and the Fertitta brothers were millions in the hole trying to make the company profitable and were ready to sell but, than they came up with the idea of the Ultimate Fighter. The Ultimate Fighter was a reality show where a group of athletes were all put in one house where they would only focus on fighting. This show allowed people to view how the fighters trained and learn the various personalities each athlete had. The finale of this show is what resurrected the sport. The contest between Forrest Griffin and Stephan Bonnar was a “three 5-min. rounds of compelling intensity” ( Chua-Eoan et al.). In this fight both contestants put everything on the line which resulted in a brawl than an actual technical fight. This however attracted viewers for as the fight went on, viewers started tuning in. This Fight is regarded as the most important fight in UFC history (Mannion). This led to

Welcome to part one of the list of the top 10 wealthiest MMA fighters in the world. It hasn't really been that long since the UFC started, but it has since become the most up-and-coming fighting league in the world, outshining boxing and other martial arts competitions. Read blow to find out about some of the richest fighters in the history of MMA.

The genre of MMA was chosen because it is a relatively new sport, but despite that, it has been gaining grave amounts of publicity in the sporting world. Unlike other long-established, mainstream sports such as soccer and basketball, the sport of MMA only commenced approximately 20 years ago, back in 1993. The power of social media has revolutionised the way humans

I’ve been wrestling and boxing since I was eight years old. My dad put me into the sport because my neighborhood was never the safest, so he put me in basically so I knew how to defend myself if it came down to it. Eventually it did come down to where I had to defend myself in a fight when I was in 6thgrade. That day I was glad my dad pushed me into the sport. After the situation I had in the 6th grade I training nonstop and competing throughout the years. I knew eventually I had to get my feet wet and I knew I was going to have to step into the cage one day. My first fight was planned on May 18,2016 I can remember it like it was yesterday. My coach told me “Sylvia it’s about that time for you to take on your first MMA fight”.

The only way to become a good fighter is to practice fighting. I don’t mean to go