Posts Tagged ‘mma gloves’
Pacquiao Vs. Cotto
photo taken from boxingrepublic.com
Filipino boxing icon-Manny Pacquiao’s next match has been confirmed to be with Miguel Cotto scheduled for Nov 14 at the MGM Grand Garden in Las Vegas. Recently Pacquiao had his 10th consecutive victory against Ricky Hatton last May in a mere two rounds that left fans watching the replay for weeks. Read the rest of this entry »
Amir Khan prepares for major fight
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22 year old WBA Light-Welterweight fighter Amir Khan is readying his MMA gloves for his scheduled fight against WBA light-welterweight champion Andreas Kotelnik on Saturday night. Khan shares the same trainer as the Filipino icon Manny Pacquiao. This fight is probably one of the most important ones in his career and his victory will pave the way for opportunities to fight against other WBA celebrities like Ricky Hatton but Amir is determined to take things one at a time, regarding the possible Ricky fight he said:
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Damian ready for UFC Middleweight?
Top UFC middleweight contender, Damian Maia will be putting on his
MMA gloves again as he feels he is ready to take up current UFC middleweight champion title holder Anderson Silva nicknamed ‘The spider’. Talking to Fighters magazine he said:
“I see myself ready to fight for the belt. I would go at Anderson and it would give him the chance of knocking me out or give me the opportunity to finish the fight. That’s what I expect. I’m not saying I will win, but I will fight to end the fight before the judge’s decision. I want to do an aggressive fight and expose myself more. The UFC were waiting on the result of Anderson-Thales match to see what to do with me. They told me they were planning to give me the chance in August but because of their performance the UFC decided not put Silva in a main event very soon. Then they matched me and Nate Marquardt to find out the next challenger for the belt.”
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.