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Many things can change in 2650 years. Apparently, however, when it comes to sports, everything is back in fashion. At least when it comes to this sport that has the fastest growing in popularity in America today: mixed martial arts.

But if you call that Mixed Martial Arts or Ultimate Fighting, the sport is far from modern. The combination of Greco-Roman techniques with a variety of martial arts, sport is a lot like free-form Greek pankration competition athletic.

Dating back to 648 BC, when it was introduced in the Olympics, the sport of pankration was bound by two rules: no eyes up and not bite. Sounds like the rules of my kindergarten teacher did. Beyond this, however, all this game is in this contest, whose name comes from two Greek words "pan" all "and kratos, meaning" powers. "

With each party often lasts for several hours (and sometimes leads to death of one or both combatants) The game quickly became the most popular Olympic sport.

His popularity has fallen during the heyday of the Roman Empire, when it began to other combat sports have priority. In the modern Western world, boxing and wrestling has become popular, whereas in the East, the traditional martial arts flourished.

Flash Forward 1900. Twenty-one years, Brazilian Carlos Gracie, who was trained in judo by the famous Japanese champion Mitsuyo Maeda began teaching his four brothers, Art and was taught to him. In 1925, Charles and his younger brother, Helio moved to Rio de Janeiro, where they opened a jiu-jitsu studio and has established the "Gracie Challenge", taking those who wish to compete. Started as a means of attracting the attention of the newly opened academy Gracie Challenge asked the fighters in disciplines ranging from martial arts of karate and other, boxing, capoeira (a form of Afro-Brazilian struggle) and to fight free.

Future fighters – and the hordes of visitors – have started to go to these games, Soon they were taking such huge crowds, the games should take place in the largest football stadiums in Brazil. Finally, the sport (Deputy vale tudo known, the Portuguese word for "Anything Goes") has grown the second most popular sport in Brazil, just behind football (a situation still stands today).

From 1935 to 1951, 135-pounds Helio Gracie fought and defeated more than 1,000 competitors in the form of unarmed combat, many of his opponents will exceed by more than 100 pounds.

In 1993, the MMA has taken a new dimension with the introduction of the Ultimate Fighting Championship, based on Brazilian Vale Tudo (Davie California seller who learned the art of son Rorito Helio Gracie Jiu-Jitsu in school two years earlier).

Derided as "human cockfighting" and not ultra fighting style has often been said competition more brutal sport. Today, the MMA and the UFC growing in popularity, with the UFC to expand beyond its early payment-per-view and get a hearing the largest U.S. television exposure and cable in Canada.

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