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2. Comparison of professional wrestling and mixed martial arts

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   Mixed Martial Arts, is a hybrid of many types of physical full-contact sports; including wrestling, boxing and Martial Arts, such as Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. The early 1990s saw the Ultimate Fighting Championship popularize the term "Mixed Martial Arts", for such a bout. Competitors in MMA are generally skilled in many different styles, however, it ...

3. Mixed martial arts - Wikipedia

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   Mixed martial arts (MMA) [a] is a full-contact fighting sport based on striking and grappling, incorporating techniques from various combat sports from around the world. [10]In the early 20th century, various inter-stylistic contests took place throughout Japan and the countries of East Asia.

4. Kickboxing - Wikipedia

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   Sanda or Sanshou (also known as Chinese boxing and Chinese kickboxing) is a form of kickboxing originally developed by the Chinese military based upon the study and practices of traditional Kung fu and modern combat fighting techniques; it combines traditional kickboxing, which include close range and rapid successive punches and kicks, with ...

5. Fatalities in mixed martial arts contests - Wikipedia

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   As of 2023, there have been twenty recorded deaths resulting from sanctioned mixed martial arts contests and nine from unregulated bouts, none however in the largest MMA promotion Ultimate Fighting Championship. A 2006 study suggests that the risk of injury in general in MMA is comparable to that in professional boxing. [1]

6. Raymond Daniels (martial artist) - Wikipedia

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   He has formerly competed for Bellator MMA and Bellator Kickboxing, where he was the Bellator Kickboxing Welterweight Champion and was a 2 time runner up for the Glory welterweight title. Daniels holds black belt ranks in American Kenpo (6th dan), Shotokan Karate (6th dan) and Kukkiwon Taekwondo (5th dan), and a blue belt rank in Brazilian Jiu ...

7. List of current mixed martial arts champions - Wikipedia

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   Mixed martial arts (MMA) is a form of competitive combat sport, akin to boxing, muay thai, or kick boxing. MMA titles, or championship belts, are given to those fighters deemed by a promotional organization to have met a certain standard of athletic accomplishment in a specific weight class (most often by means of a championship fight ...

8. Stephen Thompson (fighter) - Wikipedia

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   Thompson has also been featured in Martial Arts Digest magazine, Fighter magazine, and MMA Authority magazine. Thompson has performed along with his father at the Peace Center for the Performing Arts in the “Athletes Project”, and has appeared in several TV commercials. In 2006, Thompson joined the newly created World Combat League.

9. Maurice Smith (fighter) - Wikipedia

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   In 1993, Smith debuted for the mixed martial arts promotion Pancrase founded by Funaki and Suzuki. He took part in a kickboxing rules fight against Suzuki in the event Yes, We Are Hybrid Wrestlers 3. Later, he was scheduled to compete in a special rules MMA fight, in which the first and third rounds would be fought wearing boxing gloves, the ...