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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 ...
Fight Night Yemen We Care Charity Boxing 29 September 2019 Saleh — UD [6] Fousey vs Slim Albaher: Albaher — TKO (4/6) Tyler Smith vs Josh Brueckner KSI vs. Logan Paul II 9 November 2019 Brueckner — UD [7] KSI vs Logan Paul: KSI — SD [8] 2020 Jake Paul vs AnEsonGib Demetrius Andrade vs. Luke Keeler 20 January 2020 Paul — TKO (1/6) [9]
Boxing was a popular spectator sport in Ancient Rome. [19] Fighters protected their knuckles with leather strips wrapped around their fists. Eventually harder leather was used and the strips became a weapon. Metal studs were introduced to the strips to make the cestus. Fighting events were held at Roman amphitheatres.
No contest (abbreviated "NC") is a technical term used in some combat sports to describe a fight that ends for reasons outside the fighters' hands, without a winner or loser. The concept carried over to professional wrestling , where it is far more common, usually scripted to further a feud , generate heat and/or protect a push .
The boxer-puncher possesses many of the qualities of the out-boxer: hand speed, often an outstanding jab combination, and/or counter-punching skills, better defense and accuracy than a slugger, while possessing brawler-type power. The boxer-puncher may also be more willing to fight in an aggressive swarmer-style than an out-boxer.
Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. Conor McGregor, billed and promoted as The Money Fight, Boxing vs. MMA: Champion of Champions [2] [3] [4] and The Biggest Fight in Combat Sports History, [5] was a professional crossover boxing superfight between undefeated eleven-time five-division boxing world champion Floyd Mayweather Jr. and two-division mixed martial arts (MMA) world champion and, at the time, UFC ...
31-year-old Douglas Dedge was an American mixed martial artist who was the first known American competitor to be fatally injured in an MMA fight and the first death in the modern era of MMA. On March 16, 1998, Dedge competed at an unsanctioned "World Super Challenge" event in Kyiv , Ukraine .
KSI fought American YouTube personality Logan Paul in a white-collar boxing match on 25 August 2018. One judge scored in favour of KSI and two judges scored a draw, resulting in a majority draw. [7] The fight has been labeled "the largest event in YouTube history" [8] [9] and "the largest ever amateur boxing fight". [10]