UFC - Ultimate fighting championship
Lately I have become quite the fan of this not new but brutal fight style,
UFC has been around since 1993 when it was founded by the American MMA (mixed martial arts) since then the sport has grown but a staggering rate to become the world famous and so also produce some of the best fighters the world has ever seen.
By making the the style of fighting very open to allow any type of martial arts fighter to enter the tournament and seeing athletes combine multiple form of martial art to get the best opportunity to win the fight.The fighters are all grouped in weight categories from heavy weight where anything above 93KG is considers a heavy weight to the lighter category bantam weight where the limit is 63KG.Every weight class has there own star and so on but in my opinion the main focus is on the heavy weight division as this fight is always the main event and most of the sponsor and the top paid fighters are all in the heavyweight category.
Since the sport has started it has produced a few legends in the octagon where fighters have fought round for round to be know as some of the most feared men in the ring , One of these men Ken shamrock was once quoted saying”if u can beat you on the ring I will kill you on the street” and he had the record to prove it having 28KO 15TKO and only 2 loses he was one of the most feared men in the octagon and so was also inducted into the UFC hall of fame in 2003, Since Ken left the ring many other fighter have emerged to be known as some of the best fighter.
One of these fighters being Cain Velasquez with a very impressive record of 9-0-0 having never lost a fight in the UFC he would soon be one of the number one fighters in the UFC. Even going up to win the World heavyweight title against Brock Lesnar
So not being able to just get up and start fighting in the UFC, I started playing the Xbox game UFC Undisputed 2010 and slowly becoming more and more a fan of the sport, unfortunately UFC not being that big in South Africa , I have to visit the UFC home page to see fight dates and the cross refinance it with ESPN on DSTV and see if the the fight would air in SA or at least highlights of the fight but so far no luck , at least I can buy the DVD’s from all the best fights and get knock outs of the year dvd at the end of every year
So my final verdict you can see UFC as a barbaric way of entertaining the masses or look a bit deeper and look at the fighters and see all the effort hard work and commitment they put into becoming the best fighters in the world.
Links you might enjoy after reading this article
Top 25 Knockouts in UFC History
I hope i haven’t bored you to much and hope you enjoy the article.
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