No Holds Barred’, ‘Cage Fighting’, ‘Ultimate Fighting’, ‘Pride Fighting’, ‘Sougo Kakutog’i, ‘Vale Tudo’; these are some of the names given to mixed martial arts or ‘MMA’. So what is it and where does it come from? From earliest recorded time men have engaged in conflict. Sometimes this was serious and at other times it was [...]
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Mma: Mixed Martial Arts
Posted by on December 19th, 2010
What is MMA? The acronym stands for Mixed Martial Arts. This is a type of fighting that mixes a number of different techniques from various martial arts. It is sometimes called no holds barred fighting. Historically, mixed martial arts started around the late 1800s but it was not until the 1970s that MMA became popular [...]
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