What is UFC and why is it so popular?
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The UFC stands for Ultimat Fighting Championships.\n\nThis promotion puts two combatants into a ring surrounded by a cage .  the two fighters are trained experts in thier chosen field of martial arts..  Any and All martial arts are invited to participate in these matches.. So you can have a Kung Fu grand Master fighting a heavyweight boxer.  Or a master brazilian jujitsu master go up against Sumo Wrestler. Or a 16 th level grand master in tae kwon do like Chuck Noris go up against Mr Miyagi from the karate kid! lol Just kidding.. but I hope you get the idea.\n\nits popular because you can have any martial arts master go into the ring and show his stuff off and prove his martial art is the best in the world.  also.. you see somebody get their @$$ whupped!
811645
The UFC is the best and you should go for that... those guys are bad a**.  Good luck
309908
Tank Abbot never held an UFC title, but still gained some popularity for his attitude and unique fighting style. His MMA record is currently 9-11-2, which is not too impressive. He also was a professional wrestler for a short time, working for WCW for a short time.
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Tito is one of the best in my opinion. He's atleast around Even Tanner's class. I have a lot of respect for Ken, but I don't think he's that great of a fighter in the current UFC. Man, I love the UFC too. Ask more questions about it, please. =)
663407
I don't think there is enough fans on this site yet but they have just included a martial arts category and you will see heaps of UFC and PRIDE questions in there good luck
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Between pro wrestling and boxing?\n\nThey both have different organizations handing out championship belts based on weight classes and oftentimes with undeserving people getting the title shots.\n\nBoth are two athletes in combat within the sqared circle with a referee who can disqualify a combatant or count him out. Punches are legal in both types of bouts.\n\nBoth boxing and wrestling are popular worldwide and often have different nationality fighters pitted against each other.\n\nBoth have regular weekly programming on cable tv and occassional pay-per-views. Both have also been somewhat declining in popularity lately here in the US.\n\nCombatants in both wear athletic cups. In the amateur version of both, they wear headgear.\n\nThat's all I can think of right now.
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Of course more fans watched boxing before pay-per-view, but most people were willing to pay to watch the heavyweight championship bouts. Making it pay-per-view actually helped get people together to watch it in the same place so they would talk about it more and build up more interest.\n\nThe problem now is that there are PPV cards every other week. This past weekend it was Mosley-Vargas, both of whom are already past their prime, and which many boxing fans didn't feel was worth their money. The week before was Margarito-Gomez, whom casual boxing fans may still not know about. There are so many pay-per-views now that fans don't know which ones to buy and end up not getting them. Many of the cards don't even have any advertisements to promote them.\n\nAs mentioned earlier, we do need a real heavyweight champ who can entertain the public. The Rahman-Toney fight (3/18) looks interesting, but Rahman isn't as much of a talker and Toney looks too pudgy to impress most people. As for the W. Klitschko - Byrd fight (4/22), well, most people would rather watch grass grow than watch Byrd's defensive style, and few people have any confidence in Klitschko anymore because of the two knockouts he suffered in recent years. Fortunately, I think both of these fights will be shown on regular HBO.\n\nI don't know who's going to be the next heavyweight to capture the imagination of the fans, but as soon as he comes around, I can guarantee you that there will be a lot more people willing to pay to see him on PPV, even if a lot of the less important PPV cards get overlooked.
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The fighters insurance does, The sponsers pay for the insurance.  UFC is paid by fight, which means the more you fight the more you get hurt but the more money you can make to get better insurance
692557
first u have to start small u cantg just walk into a contract qwith them see if there is a local fighting group. or MMA association and get involved there its take a lot to make the UFC i have a friend that is a class under there and i've seen what he goes through.
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Fight fan I already gave you my thoughts on Rampage vs Lindland contest but you see, these previous two answers are exactly what I'm talking about. Most people here (just like these two motherf******) are totally ignorant of MMA. They've seen two UFC fights and all of a sudden they are all big experts and they all know how UFC is so great and so much better than Pride, how Pride fighters suck etc. etc. etc.... and basically what they know and say is bulls***. UFC has some excellent fighters, no question about that, but it is also so incredibly overrated and that's why I don't really like it.\n\nP.S.\nJust a reminder: as we have already established, on July 22. Rampage is going to break The Law (most likely that is).
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i want to see the best fighters, and the better fighters are going to do mma.  It's tough watching boxing when you know the best boxers probably would'nt have a chance in a cage, so my money will never go to see 2 guys pound each other for 12 rounds then have a decision go to crooked judges.
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It was announced and it's for a charity.  Dana White was an amature boxer before he and two other men bought the ufc and turned it into a money making enterprise.  He also managed Tito and Liddel both when they first came into the UFC if i'm not mistaken.  But the fight was scheduled for the week after the Last pay-per-view and i'm not sure if it actually happened or not.  But I do recall the anouncement being made.
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people on the ufc forums are always debating what the ufc fighters make and how much the ufc pulls in. nobody really knows for sure and i don't think you'll be able to find an exact figure.they are becoming more mainstream with a growing fan base and lots  of ppv's so i'm sure they are raking in the coin.
871551
WWE has more TV viewers, but UFC has way more people ordering their pay-per-views.
321935
Meander over to groups.google.com and ask the nice folks on rec.martial-arts about competitions in your area.  There's a number of actively competing mma fighters on the group; if there's something going on in your area, one of them should know about it.
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UFC TONIgGT WHOS GONNA CARE?????