What Is Mixed Martial Arts?


by Raymound Gopar - Date: 2007-01-03 - Word Count: 402 Share This!

The New Ultimate Fighting Championship is the world's leading mixed martial arts sports association. It was formed in January, 2001 by Zuffa, LLC. The New Ultimate Fighting Championship has very strong leadership, who bring to the new UFC a wide base of experience in management, across a variety of live sporting events, television productions, and business developments. The new UFC has established itself as the standard to be met for the evolving, and exciting, sport of mixed martial arts.

What is Mixed Martial Arts?

Mixed martial arts (MMA) is an intense and combat sport in which competitors use a mixture of forms of fighting that include jiu-jitsu, judo, karate, boxing, kickboxing, wrestling and others, to their strategic and tactical advantage, in supervised matches. Scoring for mixed martial arts events in Nevada, New Jersey, Massachusetts, and Florida is based on definitions and rules for striking athletic-commission approved blows with the hands, feet, knees, or elbows, and grappling, submission, choke holds, throws, or take downs. No single martial arts discipline.

What is Ultimate Fighting in the UFC?

Ultimate Fighting is the proprietary term of the Ultimate Fighting Championship. It is an inclusive mixed martial arts competition between skilled, professional fighters who use jiu-jitsu, karate, boxing, kickboxing, wrestling, and other forms of skilled martial arts, in UFC events. UFC competitors, or "Ultimate Fighters," are among the best-trained and best conditioned athletes in the world. This is a highly intense sport, and the UFC ownership states emphatically that fighter safety is their utmost concern, second only to providing quality entertainment for the masses. It is stated that no competitor has ever been seriously injured in a UFC event.

What is the New Ultimate Fighting Championship?

The new Ultimate Fighting Championship is a series of international, competitive mixed martial arts events. These events are televised several times a year, and can be seen live, in the arena, on pay-per-view, and other cable and satellite formats, both in the United States, and internationally. The New Ultimate Fighting Championship is committed to providing high quality live events and television productions. The New Ultimate Fighting Championship is produced exclusively in cooperation with Zuffa, LLC. The first UFC event produced under new ownership and management, was held on February 23, 2001. The New Ultimate Fighting Championships bring extremely fit, skilled fighters from all over the globe, who are talented and skilled in all facets of mixed martial arts, including grappling, Greco Roman Wrestling, striking, and submission fighting.


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Raymound Gopar has been practicing Martial Arts for more than 12 years, his level of black belt in karate is so high that it is almost on his neck giving Raymound problems to breath.

If you want to know more about what Raymound has learned all these years, you have to check this out:

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