Big Country "MMA"

MMA and Sport's Jiu Jitsu are sports that we all love and hate. They are sports very similar to our girl friends. A brief History of Martial Art.

Mixed martial arts (MMA) is a combat sport in which a wide variety of fighting techniques are used, including striking (Boxing, kickboxing) and grappling (Jiu Jitsu, Wrestling, Sambo).

Modern mixed martial arts tournaments as a popular phenomenon emerged in 1993 with the UFC - Ultimate Fighting Championship, based on the concept of pitting different fighting styles against each other in competition with minimal rules in place, in an attempt to determine which system would be more effective in a real, unregulated combat situation. In the late 1990s and early 2000s, mixed martial arts events implemented additional rules for the safety of the athletes and to promote acceptance of the sport, while maintaining as much of the original no-holds-barred concept as possible. Since these changes, the sport has grown rapidly, to the point of settingpay-per-view records and making boxing a thing of the past.

The history of the modern MMA event can go all the way back to Greece, but we know it today can be traced to the Gracie family’s vale tudo martial arts tournaments in Brazil starting in the 1920s, and early mixed martial arts matches hosted by Antonio Inoki in Japan in the 1970s. The sport gained international exposure and widespread publicity in the US in 1993, when Brazilian Jiu Jitsu fighter Royce Gracie dominated the Ultimate Fighting Championship, sparking a revolution in the martial arts, while in Japan the continued interest in the sport resulted in 1997's creation of the Pride which was just bought out by the UFC.