Mixed martial arts (MMA) is sport that most Americans are just learning about. The Fight Zone, Inc. (TFZI.PK) is taking the reins when it comes to getting the word out about the sport by aggressively managing, developing, and marketing events. MMA is a full contact sport that artfully blends skills from wrestling, boxing, and martial arts. MMA is quickly becoming the fastest growing sport in North America and has grabbed the attention of 18 to 34-year-old males, which is a key spending demographic group.
Interestingly, the ancient Greeks had a form of MMA in the early Olympic Games. Pankration, which means “all powers”, actually combined wrestling and boxing skills. Matches would traditionally last for hours and end when one of the participants was “tapped out” by either being pinned down or placed in a hold that could result in a significant injury, knock out, or even death. Due to the violence involved, historians continue to draw parallels between pankration and the current version of MMA. But even the Etruscans and the Romans had their own versions of unarmed combat sports where the participants followed rules.
In the 1920s, Vale Tudo was developed in Brazil. Vale Tudo, which means “anything goes” in Portuguese, takes combat techniques from Jujitsu, Muay Thai, Sambo, wrestling, and boxing. This early form of MMA continued throughout Brazil into the 1930s and other varying forms of the sport continued during the late 70s and 80s. Our current form of MMA can directly traced to mixed style events held throughout Japan and other Pacific Rim countries in the early 1990s. But it was in 1993 that Brazilian jujitsu fighter Royce Gracie brought MMA into the limelight by submitting three challengers in five minutes at the first Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) tournament.
The Fight Zone is taking an essential role at promoting the new sport to the public. The fighters that participate in MMA are not specialists in karate or jujitsu or wrestling. The successful fighters are those individuals who are able to learn and adapt their technique to any style based upon who they are fighting against. The Fight Zone should continue to flourish if they take the same stance of observing their opponents and adapting their style to win.
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