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Brush Up on Your MMA History This Christmas

Royce_09_1_mediumI know many of you are going to be sitting idle over the holiday just like I am so I thought I'd put together a little round-up of my MMA History series that you can get lost in for a few hours over your egg nog. And I promise I'll make some serious headway on this in 2009 oops too late. I mean 2010.

I: UFC 1 Pancrase meets BJJ

II: The Ur-Brazilian MMA Feud: BJJ vs Luta Livre and the Style They Never Saw Coming

III: More on Japan

IV: Rickson Brings Jiu Jitsu Back to Japan

V: The Reign of Royce

VI: A Dutch Detour

VII: A New Phase in the UFC

VIII: From Russia With Leglocks

IX: Strikers Attack

X: The Reign of the Wrestlers

XI: Carlson Gracie's Mighty Camp

XII: End of the UFC Glory Days

XIII: Coleman Gets His Kicks

XIV: Boom and Bust in Brazil

XV: Pancrase, RINGS, and Shooto 1996

XVII: The Lion's Den Roars

XVIII: The Losses of Luta Livre

XVI: Rico Chiapparelli and the RAW Team

XIX: The Humbled PRIDE of Nobuhiko Takada

XX: Kazushi Sakuraba and Frank Shamrock Emerge at Ultimate Japan

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great work Kid Nate, I actually have learned a lot more since reading these, thanks for writing them

"The greatest enemy will hide in the last place you would ever look." - Revolver

by flyingkneetoface on Dec 24, 2009 10:21 AM EST reply actions  

How come there is not a section devoted to Harold Howard?

for all intents and purposes, just consider all my posts as works of satire.

by Bandaka on Dec 24, 2009 10:33 AM EST reply actions  

Seriously...

"Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep."
- Lord Byron

by MyFightWiffaCheeto on Dec 24, 2009 10:54 AM EST reply actions  

And I promise I’ll make some serious headway on this in 2009

Better get cracking. You don’t have much time left.

For real, though, these are great. Thanks.

Catapultam habeo. Nisi pecuniam omnem mihi dabis, ad caput tuum saxum immane mittam.

by FRANKIE on Dec 24, 2009 11:14 AM EST reply actions   2 recs

dang,

another year got away from me!

Follow me on Twitter @KidNate

by Nate Wilcox on Dec 24, 2009 4:29 PM EST up reply actions  

This is a great series. I got into MMA late in the game, seriously late. I never really fully understood the Sakuraba think until I read Total MMA. The time line narrative is really great for new MMA fans. The lions den stuff in it is great also, but the newer stuff in the later part of the book is weaker since not enough time has passed to really get perspective on the more recent span. But picking up from Total MMA (and this is not a plug), this series by Nate goes in depth on one subject at a time and really fills in gap that I have in knowledge. I work at a book company and we do a fair amount of publishing so I immediately think, time to put together a book, but it does work well on the internet where you can link to other sources and pick the order you want to read it in. Each portion stands alone and that is great for someone like me who can barely read a whole cereal box without getting distracted.

Some people think I am a dumb, ugly human being, but really I am a beautiful ape, with exceptional verbal skills.

by szucconi on Dec 24, 2009 11:35 AM EST reply actions  

Nate, I really enjoy these articles. As said, there is a lot of history that isn’t really publicized that people who are just young (myself) don’t know about. I used to watch UFC pre dark ages but just a lack of knowhow I never watched anything like shooto/rings/pancrase.

by Matthew Roth on Dec 24, 2009 5:06 PM EST reply actions  

Cool

Enjoying starting the series. However, lotsa grammatical errors, hard to plough through. They may require your editing eye one final time, Nate!

by Ninkynonk on Dec 24, 2009 6:21 PM EST reply actions  

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