MMA Pound for Pound

Posted on 25. Jan, 2010 by dimaks in Blogging, Sports

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MMA Pound for Pound is related to the popular Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) sports that is popularized by the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) and has been around for quite sometime now. In basic definition, MMA is a full contact combat sport that permits a wide variety of fighting techniques or strategies from a mixture of modern and traditional martial arts discipline. These techniques may come in striking and grappling, while standing and on the ground. Pound for pound is basically the term used in boxing and martial arts and other combat sports to describe a fighter’s value. This value generally refers to their respective weight classes.

If we  trace the origin of Mixed Martial Arts, we can find out that it originated from various places like Europe, Japan and the Pacific Regions, with their fighting competitions that allowed mixed martial arts techniques and area of expertise. With the fast evolution of this sport, the organization running it came up with a way to determine fighters general categorization and of them is the Pound for Pound system. Hence we got the MMA Pound for Pound for the same reason.

In MMA, there well-used strategies that can be found, such as: clinch holds, pinning holds, submission holds, sweeps, takedowns and throws. While there are these tools in the fight, there are also popular disciplines that comes along such as:

• Stand-up: comes in various forms of boxing, kickboxing/Muay Thai and other forms of full contact karate involving massive use of footwork, elbowing, kicking, kneeing and punching.
• Clinch: this is a freestyle way and sometimes utilizes the Greco-Roman wrestling, Sambo and Judo. They come with the use of clinching, takedowns and throws.
• Ground: comes with the famous Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, shoot wrestling, catch wrestling, Judo and Sambo. This utilizes ground control and position, as well as submission holds and the like.

Such disciplines are very much used across the MMA fight categories and of course, in the MMA Pound for Pound virtual category as well. Furthermore, we also got the so-called hybrid styles in fighting such as: Sprawl-and-brawl, Clinch fighting, Ground-and-pound and Submission grappling. With all these disciplines and styles, MMA also got the teams, headed by designated coaches, who are also MMA fighters.

If you would like to find out the MMA Pound for Pound ranking or listing, the best place to go is UFC.com, the official website of the sport.

MMA Pound for Pound

Source: wikipedia.org