MMA Gloves

photo taken from mmafighting.com

MMA or Mixed Martial Arts, as its name suggests, is a combat sport where competitors use a hodgepodge of fighting disciplines. Hence, a karate champ can fight with a boxer; a judo artist can engage a kick-boxer; and so on.

UFC or the Ultimate Fighting Championship was the organization that brought mixed martial arts into the mainstream in 1993. However, MMA has longer roots than that.

MMA essentially began when the ancient Greeks integrated a brutal sport called pankration into the Olympic Games. Its matches uphold no particular fighting technique; combatants would even fight to the death for that matter.

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