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MMA History XIII: Coleman Gets His Kicks
All fights matter to the fighters in the cage but some fights MATTER. Every once in a long while a fight takes place that impacts not just the careers of the fighters involved, but the very course of...
MMA History XII: End of the UFC Glory Days
I've tried to avoid talking about the business or legal history of the sport since that's been dwelt on ad nauseum by plenty of other writers. But now we reach a point in MMA history where it just can...
MMA History XI: Carlson Gracie's Mighty Camp
Though I've talked in my last two installments about how strikers and wrestlers were making a big impact, they were still challengers to the pre-eminent styles: Brazilian Jiu Jitsu and Japanese Shoot ...
MMA History X: The Reign of the Wrestlers
I've been procrastinating about continuing this series, but when I saw the rumors that Mark Coleman is going to be inducted to the UFC Hall of Fame, I figured it was time to get off my ass. The last t...
MMA History IX: Strikers Attack
Well it's been a while since my last MMA history post so I figured I better do an update before everybody decides I'm just another TUF Noob. In the last two installments we covered 1995, a transitiona...
MMA History VII: A New Phase in the UFC
So for this installment I've decided to cover the UFC in 1995 and in the next installment I'll cover what happened in MMA outside the UFC in 1995 (except for Rickson Gracie's return visit to Japan whi...
MMA History VIII: From Russia With Leglocks
So 1995 was a big year in MMA History. That should be obvious since I've already written four or five posts that touch on events of the year. We've covered Rickson's return to Japan at Vale Tudo 1995,...
MMA History VI: A Dutch Detour
Sorry it's been so long since our last installment of MMA history. Partly it's because I've been busy, but I'm not going to lie, part of the reason for the delay is, it just gets complicated trying to...
MMA History V: The Reign of Royce Gracie
So in our last installment, I jumped ahead a bit and got into mid 1995 with Rickson Gracie's second Vale Tudo tournament in Japan. And since I've only covered UFC 1, that means we've left out somethin...
MMA History Part IV: Rickson Brings Jiu Jitsu Back to Japan
As we discussed in our last installment, Japanese wrestling had been evolving toward MMA for a couple of decades by the time UFC launched. Nevertheless, their reluctance to incorporate strikes on the ...
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