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MMA History: The Complete Story of Mixed Martial Arts: A Fan's and Scholar's Guide to the Fights, Fighters, Promotions, and Cultural Forces That Built

MMA History: The Complete Story of Mixed Martial Arts: A Fan's and Scholar's Guide to the Fights, Fighters, Promotions, and Cultural Forces That Built

Kade, Marcus J.

Paperback

Sports GeneralMartial Arts

ISBN13: 9798188009953
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jul 19 2026
Pages: 176
Weight: 0.54
Height: 0.38 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

MMA did not begin in Denver in 1993. It began wherever fighters asked which art survives when all the rules are stripped away. This is that history.

Mixed martial arts did not begin with the UFC. It began wherever human beings decided to settle the question of which fighting method works when the rules remove all constraints: in the pankration pits of ancient Greece, in the vale tudo challenge matches of early twentieth-century Brazil, in the catch wrestling gyms of industrial Britain, in the Pancrase and Shooto organisations of 1990s Japan, and in underground combat challenge events across East Asia and Europe. The history of MMA is the history of that question and of the successive answers combat athletes and promoters have given it across more than a century. This book tells the full story.

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