Many young males have tracked to combat sports as fans and as athletes. Combat sports are very entertaining to watch and can be very dramatic as well as disheartening. Participation brings discipline and gets one in tremendous physical shape. Boxing is a sport that has been around for hundred of years since its creation in England where the Marquees of Queensberry rules were created by John Chambers in 1867. Boxing’s height of popularity was in the 1970’s and 1980’s when Muhammad Ali and Sugar Ray Leonard were respectively recognized as the face of the sport.
The Ultimate Fighting Championship or UFC on the other hand has been around only since 1993 and has had an incredible uproar in popularity over the last two years. UFC combines the fighting techniques Muay Thai, Wrestling, Jiu Jitsu, Kickboxing, and traditional boxing to form a definitive combat sport. Mixed martial arts (MMA) has its roots in the ancient Greek sport of pankration, which combined elements of boxing and wrestling to form perhaps the most popular Olympic sport of its time. As feelings changed and people tired of the violence, it gave way to wrestling, and remained inactive until the 20th century. The modern version of the sport stems from Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, largely developed by the Gracie family in Rio de Janeiro in the 1920s. Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu (BJJ) focuses largely on ground fighting, emphasizing striking, grappling and leverage. This type of fighting generated the sport’s first modern star: Royce Gracie who won three of the first four UFC tournaments in the early 1990s, defeating much larger opponents in the days before weight classes were established. If you did not know already the shape of the UFC ring is an octagon shape with fence all round it compared to the traditional square ring with the ropes around it. Usually consists of five minute five round bouts. And you are allowed to do a lot more than only punch in the UFC, for example kick, punch, grapple,...