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    On Saturday, November 14th, 2015 Holly Holm and Ronda Rousey climbed in to the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) cage and began what would come to be known as one of the greatest “underdog” matches in the twenty-first century. Everyone knew from the second this fight was scheduled that it would be legendary because going into the fight both amazing women were undefeated. That being said, Ronda Rousey had twelve straight wins, compared to Holly Holm’s lowly nine, in mixed martial arts that is

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    you get from watching your opponent fall down to the floor caused by an amazing finisher of a spinning roundhouse kick. That’s the feeling that you will always have in the most amazing and the most physical sport in the world, The Ultimate Fighting Champion. The Ultimate Fighting Champion, or UFC for short, is the most physical sport in the world. In football, you can’t knee the opponent’s receiver in the nose or hit the quarterback with a spinning back fist. In basketball, you can’t knee LeBron James

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    Ufc Is A Sport Essay

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    prowess and often of a competitive nature...”(“Sport”). So, a sport requires skill or physical prowess and is often competitive, this means that sports such as soccer, football, baseball, etc are classified as sports. What about the UFC? The UFC or Ultimate Fighting Championship is arguably a sport which has two contestants use mixed martial to have the other person submit or ruled too injured to continue by the referee. This is a multi-million dollar business that has been around since nine-teen ninety-three

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    To this day, professional boxer Floyd Mayweather, Jr. remains to be undefeated, but equally unconquered Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) mixed martial artist Ronda Rousey believes she can change his fate by being the first to take him down in a no-rules fight. During a Reddit "Ask Me Anything" session on Monday, Rousey was asked if she thinks that she can legitimately beat Mayweather in a ruleless fight. The current UFC Bantamweight Champion responded to the inquiry by starting with an acknowledgment

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    Throughout their mission they were spotted by goatherds but by an act of compassion, the team decided not to kill them. A terrible battle ensues when one of these alerts a group of Taliban fighters of the invaders in which the SEALs find themselves outnumbered and outgunned

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    middleweight fight between former champion and No. 2 ranked Michael Bisping, and No. 9 Kelvin Gastelum. A middleweight bout between Gastelum and former UFC middleweight champion Anderson Silva was expected to serve as the main event on Saturday. The two fighters were previously scheduled to meet in June at UFC 212, but Gastelum was pulled from the bout after testing positive for Carboxy-THC, which is a metabolite of marijuana and/or hashish above the 150 ng/mL limit instituted by the U.S Anti-Doping Agency

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    Goku Antihero

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    Goku is in the midst of a ferocious fight with the Ultimate Super Saiyan, Broly! Despite his atrocious power, Goku refuses to stay down and is taking all the hits. Very reluctantly, Vegeta lends Goku all his energy which allows him to resist Broly’s power and defeat him. This fighting scene capped off the Dragon Ball Z series and gave fans all over the world a chance to pick up pre-dominant action figures. Although action figures mainly target a younger male age group, it is meant to be gender specific

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    kindness to determine their destiny. In the film Frankie appears to be a stubborn man, who is very self centered although this is not the case. Throughout the film his attitude begins to become clearer to the viewer and he becomes less skewed. His ultimate decision in the end of the film proves his true identity and shows how protectiveness and thoughtfulness has shaped his destiny. Often individuals use kindness to shape and alter their destiny either for, better or worse. An individual often show

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    overwhelming specter of death that loomed over those serving in the greatest conflict known to man. The hook that Hall uses to initially provoke the readers interest is the mentioning of the Grumman Hellcat, a fighter plane used by Americans in World War II. Specifying the model of the fighter plane allows the reader to be knowledgeable about the setting of the poem. The meaning of this poem focuses on the destructivity wartime causes on the life of those in service. The main focal point Hall emphasizes

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    Bombers were the ultimate long range heavy weapons of World War 2, a role they still have. They provided the mean to bypass the enemy's army and Navy and natural barriers, and deliver massive firepower directly to its heart, striking its industry, vital resources, key military targets, and population centers, in order to significantly erode its strength in the battlefield and defeat it.(source) While fulfilling there main role, bombers were also used for air support from long and close range. These

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