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You may have heard before – the octagon. This is the place where warriors meet to compete in the presentation by the blows of the opponent unconscious or what forced him to renounce imposing explosive pain on his body. This is the Ultimate Fighting Championship.

The UFC is a mixed martial arts organization which is opposed to 2 competing with each other, each with different fighting styles. It was created to answer this age old question: who is the best boxer, boxer or wrestler? It started as a sideshow and has since become sanctioned organization of several million dollars that grows in popularity year after year.

UFC – The Beginning

Initially, it was just a tournament, the brainchild of Art Davie, advertising creative director who has witnessed the energy, full of emotion while watching a mixed martial arts (or MMA) fights. He thought he had all the ingredients that people find in hockey, boxing or karate. In MMA, he thought, was the next level, a mix of everything. He brought on board a Brazilian MMA legend Rorion Gracie technical training and screenwriter, John Milius, who became artistic director. They brought to 27 investors and the Ultimate Fighting Championship was born.

Still in its infancy, the UFC with limited rules: no biting and not raise his eyes. The result was chaos. £ 400 fighters fought fighters 100 pounds. The octagonal red blood flowed like no other event had never dared to allow. It goes very well with the mainstream and the UFC has quickly become an underground fighting show. Some believe that against the existence of extreme cruelty, as Arizona Sen. John McCain. It's been a downward spiral that ended with the UFC who fell down the cable operators and providers of individual cables. The audience been reduced to almost nothing and the UFC has been forced to submit.

UFC – The Comeback

The UFC was on the eve of his death, no rules, no audience, no cable access and U.S. Senators calling for its break. It was time to take a step back and reassess the situation. People are interested in the idea of MMA, but not see the type battle that has 2 fighters fighting in his own blood pools. The first step was to add security rules. Weight classes were established – the heavy, light medium and heavy. The number of unacceptable strike areas in the body have been expanded to include the back of the neck, the points of pressure areas and subsequent head. Protective gloves is mandatory and there are 5 rpm, everything, helped start UFC legitimately call itself a sport, rather than a cage fight underground.

After cleaning the fighting organization, it was time to start being officially recognized by the anti partnerships. The best image has played well with the sports commission and sanction requests made by agencies other cleanup operations of MMA. It was not until September 30, 2000 as Championship International Anti held the first sanctioned MMA event in New Jersey. 2 months later, he was making the UFC. His first was also sanctioned event held in New Jersey under the rules of unified control of the State Athletic Commission. The Ultimate Fighting Championship had lost the legal battles and suffered financially but now it was a legitimate sport.

The weather seemed perfect for new leadership. Two casino executives and a boxing promoter and won a tender put in the UFC for $ 2 million in 2001. That same year, the organization has succeeded in gaining passage of the Nevada Athletic Commission, State and returned to Pay-per-view. Slowly but surely, the popularity is increasing. He earned a spot on the Fox Sports network, which has launched the first American mixed martial arts party in 2002.

Today.

With better promotion, larger input events and the necessary funding, the UFC released its own reality show on Spike TV called The Ultimate Fighter. It is divided just after an event of great UFC fight and show quickly reached the peak of the season. Spike TV, and then began airing half teaser promotion occurs hours to promote the UFC pay-per-view. All general attention explode in popularity. In 2006, the event promoted powerful UFC 61 gained nearly 775,000 pay-per-view buys, second in U.S. history. The UFC, it seems, is officially coming.

What's next for the organization growing? They think about international expansion. First stop: Mexico.

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