The History Of MMA and UFC
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The History Of MMA and UFC
Posted: Nov 03, 2010 |Comments: 0
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MMA or Mixed Martial Arts was created in 1991 by Art Davie, Rorian Gracie and Michael Tsarion. The Gracie family were heavily involved with vale-tudo which was the prelude to MMA and a mix of Brazilian jujitsu.
The MMA tournaments were originally based on an eight man fight off named War of the Worlds. Started in 1992, the tournament would combine fighters from different specialties of martial arts. The winner would be announced as a champion of the different arts.
MMA hit the TV in 1993 on pay per view channels. SEG Showtime were the only channel to take on MMA and this led to a change in the naming which was the start of UFC – Ultimate Fighting Championship. Fighters from all disciplines such as karate, savate, kick boxers and wrestlers all pit against each other. The underlying question in UFC is can a boxer beat a wrestler?
Brazilian jujitsu black belt Royce Gracie who was the younger brother of the founder of MMA, was fittingly the first ever UFC tournament champion using his unique submission skills. The interesting factor about UFC, is there are no weight limits as in other fighting sports. Keith ‘The Giant Killer’ Hackney collected his name from beating Emmanuel Yarborough, despite having a 5 inch height difference and being 180kg lighter.
Being a new sport, MMA and UFC are continually developing and growing. The 1900′s tag line of “there are no rules”, collected much criticism which included senator John McCain deeming the sport as ‘human cock fighting’, thus bringing stricter rules and regulations to save the competitors and its reputation. Europe and Asia have taken on producing shows and tournaments and the world champion fighters now look to UFC to prove they are indeed the Ultimate Fighting Champion.
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The Disturbing Truth about Your Life (Warning – Read at your own risk)
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Dear Reader,
I am about to tell you some disturbing truths I’ve realized after meditating on them and studying various material from researchers for a long time. Now I have to warn you though, this is very disturbing and once you realize them, you will never look at the world and life the same away again. As they say “Once you see the prison bars, you cannot “unsee” them”. So read at your own risk. Choose now whether you will take the “red pill” or the “blue pill”. If you choose the latter, then stop now. But if you choose the former, then read on.
The disturbing truth is, we are all slaves to the economic system but our minds are programmed not to see it that way. The world is a global enslavement machine and we are programmed with illusions that help us bear our enslavement so that we don’t even see it. All those science fiction films that depicted automaton braindead societies of the future or on other planets, were trying to tell you something after all.
This is not just physical enslavement, but enslavement of the MIND as well. Moreover, we are also slaves to our bosses, company, spouses, peers, media, parents, teachers, society, government, political system, ruling elite, and even our own implanted thoughts and desires, in direct and indirect ways, whether we are aware of it or not.
Freedom, for the most part, is just a word, not an actual state of existence. The reason people, especially Americans, believe that they have freedom is simply because their minds are programmed to think that they do. You see, your slavemasters need you to be satisfied with your enslavement to keep you controlled. In order to do that, they give you choices in consumerism and in selecting your occupation and call that “freedom”. So, you are “free” to choose your form of slavery and to vote for your puppet dictators in a charade known as the voting process, which gives the stupid an illusion of control. That is exactly why we need to be constantly reminded that we are “free”. So we don’t forget.
As Jeffrey Grupp of AntiMatter Radio (AntiMatterRadio.com) often says, “The world is a concentration camp where we are told that we are free.”
You see, there’s a reason why society is set up so that you don’t have much free time. In your youth, school keeps you busy and preoccupied. In your adult life, work keeps you busy on the treadmill. And in your spare time, the mainstream media holds your attention with the official version of things. The reason for all this is that if you have too much free time to think about everything – life, existence, the world, etc. – you will eventually realize that you are a slave on a prison planet (ala Alex Jones’ PrisonPlanet.com) and that most of what you are told is hogwash, lies and gross distortions. That’s the scary part, that with too much free time comes a lot of disturbing but liberating truths, not just in terms of conspiracies, but about the nature of your existence itself. Thus, we are kept from all that by a society that keeps us busy and distracted, for most of us cannot handle the truth. Plus it is not in the interests of the powers that rule us to let us know the truth either, for whatever reason, so they keep us in a state of Zeitgeist (illusion).
In our subconscious mind, we all know that we are living an enslavement existence. But we don’t want to face this, for we live in fear and feel helpless about it, so we just go along with it. To help us cope with it, we are programmed with delusions and mantras such as the myth of “living in a free country which makes us great” and “living to work and serve” so that we can find fulfillment and purpose in our enslavement. None of it makes any real sense and only serves to pacify and appease us.
If you think about it, the only reason you believe that you are free or living in “the land of the free” is not because it’s true or backed by any objective evidence or reason, but because you were TOLD to believe it. It’s no different than Christians believing that the Bible is God’s word because they were TOLD that it was and they accept it.
And of course, you are also programmed to believe that “Authority = Truth” and that “Majority = Right”. Thus, whatever you are TOLD is what you must believe and accept, and if everyone else accepts it, then it must be right. According to this indoctrination, truth is NOT something you seek and investigate, it’s whatever you are TOLD – plain and simple. Most accept this without inquiry. People are not programmed to seek truth. They are programmed to seek a good life and to serve the system, not to think for themselves. Thus, truth is not the highest value, conformity is.
In America, you are raised to believe that you are free and living in “the land of the free”. Yet right when you enter public school, all your freedoms are taken away. You are totally controlled like in an Orwellian state. You are told what to do, what to think, what to believe, how to behave, etc. and PUNISHED for dissidence or disobedience. So, you are told one thing, and given the complete opposite! It’s like telling someone you love them and then killing them right after. Yet most people never question it, or if they do, they keep it in their private thoughts, cause dissidence and nonconformity are NOT allowed in the school system. You’d have to be the biggest idiot not to see the total contradiction, yet because the mind control system in the US is so aggressive and effective, most don’t, at least not consciously.
Those who run your media and education establishments are also programmed, just like you, but even more so. In order to serve in their managerial positions of influence, they are held to stricter standards by the controllers, and thus must be controlled even more than you the sheeple are. Their job is not to teach you the truth,
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