Mixed Martial Arts is all about using any move or technique learned in basically any martial art to defeat an opponent, therefore it can be difficult to place its exact creation or inception in history. Of course, the earliest contact sport or martial art with very few rules (or a no holds barred concept) was [...]
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The History of Mixed Martial Arts (MMA)
Posted by on December 20th, 2010
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Tags: wrestling match, martial art, mixed, full contact, history, inception, contact sport, olympic games, mixed martial arts, different styles 
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Posted by on December 12th, 2010
Mixed Martial Arts or MMA consists of a professional fighter using different styles of martial arts to ultimately defeat his/her opponent. The earliest recorded full-contact martial art was named Pankration and began in Greece around the year 648 B.C. There is a strong possibility that Pankration may have been the parent sport of Mixed Martial [...]
Mixed Martial Arts Baltimore: Six Techniques Incorporated To Become Mixed Martial Arts
Posted by on December 10th, 2010
Mixed Martial Arts is a relatively new sport that combines every type of martial arts imaginable. The combination of elements, such as Karate, Judo, Tae Kwan Do, boxing and wrestling, create a hybrid that is described as full-contact hand-to-hand combat. The sport of mixed martial arts started in the early 1990s under the brand of [...]
