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The History of Cage Fighters
Cagefighters have been in existence since the time of the ancient Greeks, when unarmed combat, called pankration, was first introduced into the Olympic Games in the year 648 B.C. Pankration was known as the most extreme combat sports, and statues to honor the top pankratiasts were erected in cities as late as the Early Middle Ages.
This tradition of no holds barred events, while not always taking place in an actual cage, nevertheless paved the way for the methods and techniques employed by cage fighters. These no holds bare competitions took place in the late 1800's, in arenas and music hall challenge matches throughout the world, predominately in Europe.
The first recorded major encounter between a boxer and a wrestler in modern recording took place in 1887, between John L. Sullivan, the then heavy weight world boxing champion, and William Muldoon, a Greco Roman wrestling champion.
Since then, there have been other pre WWI mixed martial arts matches, but this sport did not really gain any widespread popularity until after World War I and the restructuring of professional wrestling to include to separate styles, shoot, which included actual competition, and show, which later evolved into the modern sports entertainment professional wrestling.
Cagefighters in the modern sense began with the vale tudo tournaments in Brazil, hosted by the Gracie family, as well as the mixed martial arts matches hosted in Japan in the 1970s by Antonio Inoki. The first mixed martial arts organization, Shooto, was formed in 1985.
This concept of mixed martial arts was also popularized by Bruce Lee in the late 1960s and early 1970s, and Lee has come to be known as the father of mixed martial arts.
In 1993, after Royal Gracies victory in the first Ultimate fighting championship, cagefighters found a larger, more widespread platform for their sport, despite criticism from those who deemed it too violent and brutal. UFC bouts, as well as other MMA sanctioned cage fighting bouts, are held in an octagonal caged enclosure, or The Octagon, a structure with eight sided walls of metal chain link fence coated with black vinyl and heavy foam padding around the sides.
Cagefighters are required to fight in approved shorts, and no shoes, shirts, gis, or any sort of foot coverings are allowed. Fighters must also use approved light gloves that reduce the risk of a broken hand while providing better grabbing and grappling ability.
While todays cagefighter may compete in a different environment than that of the early Grecian combat fighters, the skill set needed, the methods, and the techniques have remained relatively unchanged throughout the centuries of the sport's evolution.
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What Is MMA
There are lots of sports that involve utilising physical contact - but none more than martial arts. Some people might disagree and feel that boxing or wrestling involves more physical contact and allows for more technique for the fighters performing. But boxing has greatly reduced and wrestling is full of drama and on stage humiliation and fake fighting.
MMA - also known as mixed martial arts - is an all new type of sport that has become a favorite in many countries. The UFC - best-known as the Ultimate Fighting Championship - is the largest presenter for MMA and holds several fights for them every year with countless fighters. Even a few top fighters from boxing are trying MMA.
MMA combines the art of several distinct types of martial arts for fighters to utilize. In one fight you can have the power to see fighters utilizing wrestling, judo, Muay Thai kickboxing, and Brazilian Jiu-jitsu. The MMA combatants will struggle it out using techniques from these distinct forms of fighting inside of an eight sided cage. The only way to win is to knock out the opponent, force them to tap out employing a submission, or to succeed by the decision of the judges.
The combatants will go at each other for three, five minute rounds in which time the judges will observe and decide who won if neither of them is knocked out or has tapped out. The fights can be intensive. It is the referees job to make sure to stop it if one of the fighters is no longer able to defend themselves. This avoids severe damage to either fighter.
Training for an MMA competition demands hours of dedication and practice. It may take years for somebody to learn the several MMA techniques and how to utilize it for fighting. They will start as amateurs and slowly work their way up to becoming pro fighters. They utilize exceptional fight gear that include special training gloves and Everlast MMA gloves. These gloves are designed in such a way to let the fighters to utilize their hands so that they can seize their opponent and perform a submission.
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MMA fighters use Everlast MMA Gloves to ensure that their hands are protected and safe without losing power to hit their opponents. For added protection they use MMA Training Gloves with more padding to avoid injuries.
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