While Blended Martial Arts gets a bad name, it is generally by people who do not comprehend the history of this sport. Blended marital arts, or MMA, is something that has been around for a very long time, longer than most other sports, so here to help educate, is the blended martial arts history.
In the 1880s, there was a no-holds-barred type of fighting that used various fighting styles including Greco-Roman wrestling, boxing and more. In 1887, the first match between a boxer and a wrestler took place when heavy weight champion John L. Sullivan went up against his trainer, losing within two minutes to the wrestler.
Mixed style matches between boxers and jujutsu fighters were very favourite during the primeval 1900s in Europe and Japan. In 1936, Kingfish Levinsky, a heavyweight boxer, went up against wrestler Ray Steele. Steele won within 35 seconds.
After World War Two, this blended style colourless away until the primeval 1970s when Bruce Lee brought the concept of combining elements of multiple martial arts to the West. He believed that the ideal fighter was not the boxer, karate or judo man, but the one who could adapt to any style, to be formless and to adapt to the opponents own style. Bruce Lee is considered to be the dad of blended martial arts.
In 1993, the first Blended Martial Arts competition was held and the sport swiftly gained widespread publicity in the United States, helping to generalize martial arts even more.
As the 1990s progressed into the 2000s, blended martial arts, the UFC and more began to take the sporting world by storm, effectively actuation entertainment wrestling to the back side as people became enthralled with the athleticism of the fighters in the UFC.
These days, UFC fighters and MMA fighters can make as much as major sports stars, have endorsements and have millions of fans crossways the planet. Many do criticize the sport, but in reality there are many rules in place to keep fighters innocuous and most of the fighters are in such astonishing shape that serious injury is rare.
In fact, in November of 2005, the United Says Army sanctioned blended martial arts at its first annual Army Combative Championship.
