| There are quite a few fighting techniques | | | | were using different styles of martial arts. |
| employed in the Mixed Martial Arts. It is | | | | When MMA started is was brutal. There were |
| considered a Full Contact Sport usually practiced | | | | few if any safety rules employed in this sport. |
| by some real big scary people which many would | | | | Additional rules were finally added by later |
| say have possibly brain damage. Just kidding. | | | | promoters that would increase competitor safety |
| Striking as well as Grappling techniques are allowed | | | | and to allow the public at large to adopt more |
| in MMA Matches. You can use these whether you | | | | acceptance of this sport. Rick Blume was the |
| are standing or on the ground. What makes this | | | | main who came up with the term Mixed Martial |
| sport so exciting is because in most cases | | | | Arts in 1995. He is the President as well as the |
| fighters with different Backgrounds usually end up | | | | CEO of a company called Battlecade. |
| competing against each other | | | | Nowdays you'll find Mixed Martial Arts on TV, but |
| The roots of Mixed Martial Arts can be traced to | | | | in most cases you'll have to pay to watch it since |
| various contests that happened in Europe, the | | | | it's usually just offered on Pay Per View. Royce |
| Pacific Rim and Japan. These matches started | | | | Gracie was the first person to win an Ultimate |
| taking place in the early 1900's. 1993 is when | | | | Fighting Championship tournament. He took down |
| modern MMA started with the Ultimate Fighting | | | | three opponents within just 5 minutes. This was a |
| Championships. However, MMA events started in | | | | historical break through in Martial Arts History. |
| Japan in 1989. The whole concept of MMA started | | | | Soon after this the U.S. Army even started to |
| because they wanted to find the most effective | | | | use MMA which now holds yearly Army |
| combat techniques for hand to hand combat by | | | | Combatives Championships. |
| pitting different fighters against each other that | | | | |