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THE SPORT: The short and tumultuous history of the UFC and modern Mixed Martial Arts is one of the greatest stories in all of sports. From its spectacular beginnings to its deathbed, to reemergence as the fastest growing sport in the world, Mixed Martial Arts covers it all.
THE FORMAT: The presentation created by the authors distinguishes Sports by the Numbers from everything else available today. The book offers ten compelling chapter introductions and one thousand numbers full of statistics, stories, and oddities that blast new fans with the force of a Bas Rutten liver shot, and wipe away the cobwebs of the diehards as if they were waking up from a Cro Cop head kick.
INTERACTIVE: Numerical entries tagged with SBTN All-Star or SBTN Hall of Fame logos are scattered throughout this book. These logos indicate that more information is available at our web site www.sportsbythenumbers.com. Readers and sports fans can then visit our site and participate in the SBTN blogs and conversations regarding those numbers, creating an interactive community.
- Why did Hermes Franca agree to fight Manny Reyes for one dollar?
- How did Matt The Law Lindland get his nickname?
- Why did Jason Mayhem Miller mention Sacagawea after his WEC contract was fulfilled?
- How many strikes did Georges St. Pierre and Jon Fitch combine to throw at UFC 87?
- Why was Ian Freemans victory over Frank Mir at UFC 38 both inspiring and terribly sad?
Find out all the answers and more in Mixed Martial Artsa book for every fan and sports history reader who loves sports and wants to know more about their favorite fighters and promotions.
About the Authors: Daniel J. Brush, David Horne, and Marc CB Maxwell, also known as the Sports by the Numbers Guys, are the award-winning authors of the Sports by the Numbers series. Other titles include University of Oklahoma Football, New York Yankees, Major League Baseball, and NASCAR to name a few. Zac Robinson is a professional educator and life-long combat sports fan who has trained in Tae Kwon Do and Hapkido in the United States and Korea. He is also a columnist for MMA Monthly Journal.
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very interesting can arm you with all the tools you need to be the smartest guy in a room full of MMA Fans.
Fight Magazine, 07/2009
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About the Authors
Daniel J. Brush, a recipient of the prestigious NSEP Fellowship, is working on his Ph.D. at the University of Oklahoma. He grew up in Germany and Italy and played soccer, basketball, football, and baseball (including a high school stint on the practice squad of the Frth Pirates of the Bundesliga Sd) while living overseas. He has combined his affinity for statistics and research with his love of sports to help bring you the Sports by the NumbersTM series.
David Horne, a professional educator and former high school athletic director, is pursuing a doctoral degree at the University of Oklahoma. He has spoken to the Officer and Civilian Spouses Association at U.S. military events, member schools of the Korean-American Interscholastic Activities Conference, chapters of the Fellowship of Christian Athletes in Florida, and the Florida Future Educators Program. In 2005, his personal memoir titled The Memory of Hope earned an honorable mention in Writers Digests 74th annual writing competition.
Marc CB Maxwell is a Department of Defense Guidance Counselor who works with deployed personnel and their families. An avid sports fan, award winning author, and current Ph.D. student at the University of Oklahoma, Marc played basketball at Cornell College of Iowa. He holds a Bachelors degree from Cornell College and a Master of Science degree from Texas A&M UniversityCorpus Christi, and is a former Army Airborne Ranger. He has been awarded numerous medals including the Global War on Terrorism Service Medal. He is married to Christine, and they have a daughter named Meredith.
Zac Robinson is a professional educator and life-long combat sports fan who has trained in Tae Kwon Do and Hapkido in the United States and Korea. He is also a columnist for MMA Monthly Journal .
Cover Photo: Robert Barge, president of Overcome Training, Inc., a diversified fitness industry company located in the Sacramento California Valley. Overcomes Boxing and Mixed Martial arts academy provides professional coaching to aspiring combat sports amateur and professional athletes. Please visit their website for more information at www.overcome-training.com.
C ompiling the statistics and stories for this book was both a great deal of fun and a great deal of work. Mixed Martial Arts is a sport like no other, and years down the road the people below, the small band of those who fight and those who write about the fights will be considered pioneers. And without their dedicated efforts, this book would not have happened.
I pulled from numerous sources to put together the numbers and below Im listing them according to category.
Books
A Fighters Heart: One Mans Journey through the World of Fighting by Sam Sheridan
Iceman: My Fighting Life , by Chuck Liddell with Chad Millman
Made in America: The Most Dominant Champion in UFC History , by Matt Hughes with Michael Malice
Inside the Lions Den: The Life and Submission Fighting System of Ken Shamrock , by Ken Shamrock with Richard Hanner and Clixtro Romias
Randy Couture Becoming the Natural , with Loretta Hunt
Magazines
With the sports explosion MMA magazines have begun to fill the shelves and a few of them helped a great deal regarding research.
Extreme Fighter
Fight!
Fight Sport
Real Fighter
Tapout
Websites
Sherdog.com has been an invaluable source with Rob Kings aforementioned Fightfinder and a host of articles by numerous writers:
Danny Acosta
Josh Gross
Tim Leidecker
Brad McCray
Tomas Rios
Jake Rossen
Mike Sloan
Pedro Wrobel
Many other sites and writers played a key role in research:
Yahoo! Sports
Dave Doyle
Kevin Iole
Dave Meltzer
MMAweekly.com
Damon Martin
Ken Pishna
Ivan Trembow
UFC.com
Michael DiSanto
Thomas Gerbasi
MMApayout.com
Adam Swift
Foxsports.com
Jay Glazer
ESPN.com
Franklin McNeil
Michael Smith
Michael Woods
Fiveouncesofpain.com
Sam Caplan
There are many other great sites that were helpful:
Boutreviewusa.com
Cagerage.tv
Cincinnatimagazine.com
Compustrike.com
Extremesports.com
Fightmetric.com (an excellent source for breaking down the numbers of each fight)
Fightreport.net
Gazingattheflag.blogspot.com
Gov.ns.ca (Nova Scotia)
Hd.net (Inside MMA)
Knucklepit.com
MMAjunkie.com
MMAmadness.com
MMAplayground.com
MMAringreport.com
MMA.tvMMAuniverse.com
OCregister.com
Proelite.com
Rangerup.com
SpiritMC.org
Thaformula.com
Thefightnetwork.com
Another important source was the fighters websites. Numerous fighters have their own official websites and these played an important role in the research process. They are too numerous to list, but simply search for your favorite fighters official site and you will most likely be rewarded with a ton of great information.
The UFCs reality show, The Ultimate Fighter , undoubtedly changed the sport, and quite a few fans saw it happen:
The Ultimate Fighter Live Finale:
NoteThe ratings roughly equate to anywhere from 200,000 to 400,000 more viewers than the given number. For example, a 1.4 rating indicates approximately 1.6 to 1.8 million viewers.
Growing up I loved Chuck Norris, Steven Seagal, and Van Damme movies and Roadhouse! Anything with fighting! I was enthralled with the idea of competing against somebody one on one.
Tara LaRosa, on why she got involved with MMA
Heroes?
T ara LaRosa courageously fought on November 24, 2007, at Bodog FIGHTS HOOKnSHOOT. It was her 16th time to enter into professional combat and her 15th time to leave victorious.
It takes courage to fight and any time two individuals have the gumption to test themselves so nakedly and in such a public arena, the masses have to give them their due credit. But after this particular bout some people even considered Tara a hero?
The actual act of fighting another individual, of artful striking, skilled grappling, of a conditioned body working near its peak certainly can be seen as heroic, but falls short of true heroism.
It takes more than simply fighting, impressing others with phenomenal skill, to earn the moniker of hero.
A few things make people heroes:
| Fighting on despite the odds and inspiring others to do the same |
| Giving thoughtlessly without consideration of reward |
| Genuinely caring about others |
| Living by a set of principles that others aspire to live by as well |
Those in the limelight have the opportunity to reach more people with their heroism. And the following fighters might shun the notion that they are heroes, but their actions give them away!
Houston Alexander gave one of his kidneys to his ten- year- old daughter while taking on each day as a single parent of six, and teaching and inspiring kids in the Omaha area.
Randy Couture wholeheartedly works to help injured service members and their families through his Xtreme Couture GI Foundation.
Genki Sudo recognized the ring was his small stage to offer a cry for worldwide cooperation and understanding with his banner, We are all one .
Frank Mir lost almost everything due to a motorcycle accident, but painstakingly battled back to fight once again.
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