Discipline dossier
Mixed Martial Arts (MMA)
4 fundamental techniques
01Executive Overview
Tracing roots to ancient Greek Pankration and 20th-century Brazilian Vale Tudo and Japanese Shooto, modern MMA crystallized with the debut of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) in 1993. Initially designed as a style-versus-style contest, it evolved into a hybrid combat system requiring technical proficiency across distance striking, wrestling, cage-work, and submission grappling.
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