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With the popularity of mixed martial arts, a combination of karate, judo, boxing and wrestling, seemingly growing by the day, the activity is gaining a foothold in the sports market place.

The Ultimate Fighting Championship bout Saturday in Las Vegas between Chuck Liddell and Tito Ortiz (UFC 66) is expected by UFC officials to draw 1.2 million viewers on pay per view — at $39.95 a pop. That would be a record for mixed martial arts and would be the most broadly watched pay-per-view broadcast since the 2002 boxing match between Lennox Lewis and Mike Tyson.

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"If they can get 1 million viewers at $40 a person, that conveys a real interest and legitimacy in the sport. We still won't know if this is just a fad or if it has legs, but that will put it more on the map in terms of national scale," said Marc Ganis, president of Sportscorp, a Chicago-based sports business consulting firm.

Lee Berke, president of LHB Sports, a TV sports consulting firm in Scarsdale, NY, was even more optimistic. "This has the potential to become the boxing for a new generation. There are very few sports on pay per view that can generate that level of subscriptions. This seems to be unlocking that opportunity. The only others that come to mind are professional wrestling and boxing."

Mixed martial arts has come a long way from its bare-knuckle roots. While violence still plays a central role, the sport has toned down and slicked up to attract a wider audience and mainstream corporate sponsors.

The strategy has paid off. The February UFC fight with Chuck Liddell and Randy Couture at the MGM in Las Vegas produced $3.4 million in gate revenue, thanks to a paid attendance of 10,301. While top-notch boxing dwarfs that output with gate revenue as high $15 million, clearly the sport is growing traction.

The number of TV viewers is rising as well. The first bout between Ortiz and Liddell in April 2004 chalked up about 105,000 buys on pay per view, which was deemed outstanding at the time.

Early last year, The Ultimate Fighter reality show debuted on Spike TV, which is part of Viacom's MTV Networks. Spike's broadcast of the two-hour UFC fight card in October of this year drew an average of 4.2 million viewers, including 1.6 million in the coveted male 18-34 demographic. UFC topped Game 1 of the Tigers-A's ALCS showdown in that demo by 500,000 viewers.

 

Spike, with its core audience of young men with a thirst for action, is a perfect medium for mixed martial arts, says John Korff, head of New York City-based Korff Enterprises, which has organized triathlons, tennis and golf events. "Spike is probably as close as they're going to come to the demographic they're trying to reach without costing a fortune. It's not like you're going there to see My Friend Flicka there."

And Korff believes UFC is on the right track with its pay-per-view events as well. "They can probably make more money broadcasting on pay per view," he said. "It's not like you will get a whole lot of converts for mixed martial arts. If you're a fan you know who you are. You're not going to get a mother clicking through the dial to see if she can watch Leave it to Beaver, Ice Capades or UFC. You probably have high testosterone 19-year-olds eating their 93rd Twinkie and drinking Red Bull out the yin yang. That's your audience."

While some may question whether mixed martial arts is truly a sport, Korff isn't one of them. "If they get 1 million viewers, whether they call themselves a sport or an ATM machine, they're doing something right," he said. "ESPN is broadcasting poker. I don't know if that's a sport, but it makes money. If a guy's out there sweating and getting beat up, it sounds like a sport to me."

 

Most PPV buys, Jan.-Oct. 2006
Date Event Attraction Buys

1. May 5 Boxing Oscar DeLa Hoya vs. Ricardo Mayorga 925,000
2. July 8 UFC Tito Ortiz vs. Ken Shamrock 775,000
3. Sept. 23 UFC Matt Hughes vs. B.J. Penn 700,000
4. April 2 Wrestling Wrestlemania 22 636,000
5. May 27 UFC Matt Hughes vs. Royce Gracie 600,000
6. Aug. 26 UFC Chuck Liddell vs. Renato Sobral 500,000
7. April 15 UFC Tito Ortiz vs. Forrest Griffin 425,000
8. Feb. 25 Boxing Shane Mosely vs. Fernando Vargas 420,000
9. Feb 3 UFC

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10. April 8 Boxing Floyd Mayweather vs. Zab Judah 375,000
 

Source: Wrestling Observer, Dec. 27

Korff noted that the idea of what constitutes a legitimate sport has changed greatly over the last 20 years. "We started with baseball, football and basketball, and then we had the proliferation of new activities, which some would call activities, and others would call sports," he said. "A few years ago, no one would have thought that the X Games were legitimate, and now half of those events are in the Olympics."

Korff doesn't see mixed martial arts as too dissimilar to NFL football. "This is just another offshoot of a violent sport. If we saw what some of the guys in the NFL do without their helmets on, I bet there are a fair number of fingers being stuck in places they don't belong. This isn't far from that."

To be sure, the idea of football is to outscore your opponent, while in mixed martial arts, the winner is the only man left standing. "In football, violence is incidental to the ultimate goal," Ganis said. "In the UFC, violence is the ultimate goal."

Of course, many young men (and some women too) are attracted to violence. "The young males and females who watch Spike are prone to want violence," Ganis said. "They have grown up with animated violence in video games and staged violence in wrestling entertainment. This is the real thing."

For the parents of these youngsters, on the other hand, the appeal of violence doesn't always have such a positive note. "A lot of them would agree that it's not a great commentary on our culture," Ganis acknowledged.

For a generation weaned on the internet, mixed martial arts offers more than a vicarious thrill of violence, said Kathleen Davis, president of Fort Lauderdale-based Sports Management Research Institute. "Fringe sports, whether it's rock climbing, para-sailing, paint ball or mixed martial arts, provide an interesting way for people to add entertainment to their leisure time," she said. "Social interaction is limited on the internet. People are looking for more excitement and socializing opportunities."

But mixed martial arts has the potential to be a lot more than a fringe sport, said Paul Swangard, director of the University of Oregon's sports marketing center. "They've found themselves in an opportunity where the main competition — boxing — is a vulnerable sport that targets a similar audience," he said. "They are offering something that's getting people to switch over. It's a statement to boxing that it doesn't own anything in terms of the market."

 







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PRIDE Fighting Championships (PRIDE or PRIDE FC for short) is a major mixed martial arts organization based in Japan, and currently promoted by Dream Stage Entertainment (DSE). Its inaugural event was held at the Tokyo Dome on October 11, 1997. PRIDE has since held more than sixty mixed martial arts events. As one of the most popular MMA organizations in the world, PRIDE broadcasts to about 40 countries worldwide.[1] PRIDE also holds the largest live MMA event audience record of 91,107 people at the PRIDE and K-1 co-production, Shockwave/Dynamite, held in August 2002, as well as the audience record of over 67,450 people at the PRIDE Final Conflict 2003.

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  History

PRIDE Fighting Championships was initially conceived 1997 by Kakutougi Revolution Spirits (later known as Dream Stage Entertainment, or DSE) as an opportunity to match popular Japanese pro-wrestler Nobuhiko Takada with Rickson Gracie, the purported champion of the Gracie family of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu practitioners. The event, held at the Tokyo Dome on October 11, 1997 attracted 47,000 fans, as well as Japanese mass media attention. The success of the first event enabled its promoters to hold a regular series of mixed martial arts events, and a year later in 1998, promote a rematch between Takada and Gracie. [2] With K-1 enjoying popularity in Japan, PRIDE began to compete with monthly showings on Fuji Television, as well as pay per view on the newly formed satellite television channel SKY PerfecTV.

In 2000, PRIDE organized the first ever PRIDE Grand Prix, a two-part openweight tournament held to find the "world's best fighter". The tournament was held over the course of two events, with sixteen fighters competing in an opening round, and the eight winners returning three months later for the final round. The second round of the tournament marked the first time PRIDE was broadcast in the United States, and featured American fighter Mark Coleman winning the tournament by defeating Igor Vovchanchyn in the final round.

In August 2002, PRIDE teamed up with Japan's leading kickboxing and fight promotion, K-1, and held the worlds biggest fight event, Shockwave (known as PRIDE/K-1 Dynamite!! in Japan), which attracted over 91,107 fans.

On January 13, 2003, the PRIDE organization was thrown into turmoil when DSE President Naoto Morishita was found dead hanging by his neck in his hotel room, apparently after his mistress told him she wanted to end their affair.[3] Speculation still looms whether this could possibly be the real reason, as trouble with tax authorities and the yakuza have also been speculated to play a role.[2] Nobuyuki Sakakibara later assumed the presidency.

In 2003 PRIDE introduced the Bushido series of events, which focused on the lighter weight classes of lightweights and welterweights. The Bushido series also stressed a faster pace, with bouts consisting of only one ten minute round and one five minute round, as well as quicker referee intervention of stalling tactics, using the new "green card" system of purse deduction.

Also in 2003, PRIDE returned to the tournament format, with a middleweight grand prix spanning two events, Total Elimination 2003 and Final Conflict 2003. The format would be expanded to three events in 2004, adding Critical Countdown 2004 as the second round. PRIDE would go on to hold annual tournaments, a Heavyweight tournament in 2004, Middleweight in 2005, and Openweight in 2006.

PRIDE announced it would cooperate with the Ultimate Fighting Championship, North America's largest MMA organization, and would be showcasing their fighters, including Wanderlei Silva and Kazuyuki Fujita, at a UFC event in November 2006.[4] However, Dana White, president of the UFC, since commented that an announced bout between Chuck Liddell and Wanderlei Silva may no longer be happening because of what he claimed that "the Japanese are very hard to do business with".[5]

PRIDE has continued to enjoy success, holding roughly ten events per year, and even out-drawing rival K-1 at the annual New Year's Eve show PRIDE Shockwave 2005. On October 21, 2006, PRIDE held its first MMA event in USA, PRIDE 32: The Real Deal took place in front of an audience of 11,727 at the Thomas & Mack Center in Las Vegas, Nevada, and was the first PRIDE event to be held outside of Japan.[6]

On June 5, 2006, Fuji Network announced that they were terminating their television contract with PRIDE Fighting Championships effective immediately due to a breach of contract by DSE.[7] This leaves PRIDE with only SKY PerfecTV, a pay-per-view carrier, as a television outlet in Japan, and the lack of the substantial revenues from the Fuji deal threatens its sustainability. DSE has been surrounded by speculation in the Japanese media, especially in Japanese tabloid Shukan Gendai, that it may be a front for the notorious yakuza crime organization. DSE responded to the loss by stating they will continue with their schedule as currently planned, including an event in Las Vegas, Nevada, PRIDE 32: The Real Deal which took place on October 21, 2006, PRIDE's first event outside of Japan.[8]

PRIDE has officially announced plans for Mike Tyson to fight in the organizations New Year's Eve show.[6] Tyson would face a PRIDE fighter under boxing rules. Since Tyson is not allowed to fight in Japan because of his criminal record, PRIDE wants to stage the fight in an alternate country, possibly Macau, China. The fight would be broadcast live on large television screens in the Saitama Super Arena, where the regular mixed martial arts bouts will be held.[9]

On November 29, 2006, PRIDE announced the discontinuation of it's Bushido events, with the intention of integrating the matches from lighter weight classes, mainly featured in Bushido, into regular PRIDE events. PRIDE also announced that future Grand Prix tournaments would take place on a four year weight class cycle, with one Grand Prix per year.[10]

  Rules

PRIDE's rules[11] differ between main PRIDE events and Bushido events. It was announced on November 29, 2006 that Bushido events would be discontinued, though it is unclear if the Bushido-specific rules will be scrapped or will continue to be used for lightweight and welterweight bouts.[10]

  Match length

PRIDE matches consist of three rounds; the first lasting ten minutes, and the second and third lasting five. Intermissions between each round are two minutes in length.

If two rounds of a Grand Prix take place on the same night, Grand Prix bouts will consist of two rounds; the first lasting ten minutes and the second lasting five. Intermissions between each round remain two minutes in length.

  Weight classes

PRIDE Fighting Championships does not divide their fighters based on weight divisions per se. A fighter may be booked to fight an opponent of any weight. Weight divisions are used for championship bouts and for Grands Prix to decide a best fighter at a given weight class.

  Ring

PRIDE uses a four-roped square ring with sides 7m in length, which is approximately 23'.

  Attire

PRIDE allows fighters latitude in their choice of attire but open finger gloves, a mouthguard and a protective cup are mandatory. It is within a fighter's discretion to tape parts of their body or to wear a gi top, gi pants, wrestling shoes, kneepads, elbowpads, shin guards and ankle supports, though each is checked by the referee before the fight.

  Victory

Matches are won via:

  1. the effort made to finish the fight via KO or submission,
  2. damage given to the opponent,
  3. standing combinations and ground control,
  4. takedowns and takedown defense,
  5. aggressiveness, and
  6. weight (in the case that the weight difference is 10 kg/22 lb or more).
If a fight is stopped on advice of the ring doctor after an accidental but illegal action, i.e. a clash of heads, and the contest is in its second or third round, the match will be decided by the judges using the same criteria.

  Fouls

PRIDE Fighting Championships considers the following to be fouls:

  1. Head butting.
  2. Eye gouging.
  3. Hair pulling.
  4. Biting.
  5. Fish hooking.
  6. Any attacks to the groin
  7. Strikes to the back of the head, which includes the occipital region and the spine. The sides of the head and the area around the ears are not considered to be the back of the head. (see Rabbit punch)
  8. Small joint manipulation (control of four or more fingers/toes is necessary).
  9. Elbow strikes to the head and face.
  10. Intentionally throwing your opponent out of the ring.
  11. Running out of the ring.
  12. Purposely holding the ropes. Fighters cannot purposely hang an arm or leg on the ropes and it will result in an immediate warning.

In the event that a fighter is injured by illegal actions, then at the discretion of the referee and ring doctor, the round will attempt to be resumed after enough time has been given to the fighter to recover. If the match cannot be continued due to the severity of the injury then the fighter who perpetrated the action will be disqualified.

  Match conduct

  Matches between fighters of different weight classes

PRIDE makes special provision for fights between fighters of different weight classes or fighters with a large weight difference in the same weight class. The lighter fighter is given a choice on whether to permit knees or kicks to the face when in the "four points" position in the following cases:

  PRIDE Bushido

There are a few minor differences from main PRIDE events.

  Differences from the Unified Rules of Combat

In order to hold sanctioned mixed martial arts events in the United States, PRIDE has to modify its rules to match the Mixed Martial Arts Unified Rules of Combat, as introduced by the New Jersey State Athletic Control Board, and adopted by the Nevada State Athletic Commission.[12] [13]

PRIDE's rules differ from the Unified Rules of Combat in the following ways:

  PRIDE events

Main Article: List of PRIDE Events

In addition to their main, "numbered" events, PRIDE have staged other series of events for different purposes.

  PRIDE Grand Prix

In 2000, PRIDE held their first grand prix. With no weight limits, it is now considered to be their first openweight grand prix. Held across two events, PRIDE Grand Prix 2000 Opening Round featured first round bouts and PRIDE Grand Prix 2000 Finals featured the quarter finals, semi finals and final.

The concept was brought back in 2003, with a middleweight grand prix. Held across two cards, Total Elimination 2003 featured the first two rounds of the Grand Prix and Final Conflict 2003 featured the semi finals and final. Subsequent middleweight, heavyweight and, in 2006, openweight grands prix have taken place across three events when, in 2004, Critical Countdown was introduced for second round bouts. Both Critical Countdown and Final Conflict have a mix of grand prix and non-grand prix matches.

From 2007, PRIDE will hold only one grand prix a year and it will rotate between each of their four established weight classes.[10]

  PRIDE Bushido

With PRIDE's numbered shows and Grands Prix focused on heavier fighters, in October 2003, PRIDE started a series of events entitled "Bushido". With the focus on lighter combatants, two weight classes, lightweight and welterweight, were formed at 73 and 83 kg respectively. After PRIDE Bushido 13, it was announced that the series would end and these weight classes would transfer to main PRIDE shows.

In 2005, PRIDE Bushido staged welterweight and lightweight grands prix. Two eight-man brackets were set up and the quarter finals and semi finals were held at PRIDE Bushido 9, along with an alternate bout in each bracket. The finals were held at PRIDE Shockwave 2005, with the winners subsequently being crowned as champions for their division. A sixteen-man welterweight grand prix was held in 2006. With Bushido shows being discontinued from 2007, these grands prix will be moved to the main PRIDE Grand Prix series and will be held on a four-yearly rotation with the other classes.[10]

  PRIDE The Best

In 2002, PRIDE launched The Best, a series of shows featuring up-and-coming PRIDE fighters, using an eight-sided roped ring. However, after the third show in October 2002, the series was discontinued.

  PRIDE current champions

Main article: List of PRIDE champions
Weight Division Champion
Heavyweight Russia Fedor Emelianenko
Middleweight Brazil Wanderlei Silva
Welterweight United States Dan Henderson
Lightweight Japan Takanori Gomi


Tournament champions:

Year/Weight Division Champion
2000 Openweight United States Mark Coleman
2003 Middleweight Brazil Wanderlei Silva
2004 Heavyweight Russia Fedor Emelianenko
2005 Middleweight Brazil Mauricio "Shogun" Rua
2005 Welterweight United States Dan Henderson
2005 Lightweight Japan Takanori Gomi
2006 Openweight Croatia Mirko "Cro Cop" Filipović
2006 Welterweight Japan Kazuo Misaki

  Notable PRIDE fighters

  Heavyweight

Fedor Emelianenko, current PRIDE World Heavyweight Champion
Fedor Emelianenko, current PRIDE World Heavyweight Champion

  Middleweight

Wanderlei Silva, current PRIDE World Middleweight Champion.
Wanderlei Silva, current PRIDE World Middleweight Champion.

  Welterweight

Dan Henderson, current PRIDE World Welterweight Champion.
Dan Henderson, current PRIDE World Welterweight Champion.

  Lightweight

Takanori Gomi, current PRIDE World Lightweight Champion.
Takanori Gomi, current PRIDE World Lightweight Champion.

  See also

  References

  1. ^ What is PRIDE?, Official PRIDE site. Last retrieved December 5, 2006
  2. ^ a b Japan's Fight Clubs, JapanInc.com. Last retrieved December 5, 2006
  3. ^ Fight promoter cashes in his chips, Mainichi Daily News. Last retrieved December 5, 2006
  4. ^ WANDERLEI SILVA & CHUCK LIDDELL SET TO WAR IN THE OCTAGON, Official PRIDE site. Last retrieved December 5, 2006
  5. ^ Liddell Silva fight could be off, according to UFC president, CBC.ca. Last retrieved December 5, 2006
  6. ^ a b PRIDE FIGHTING PLANS TO STAY IN THE US, PRIDE official site. Last retrieved December 5, 2006
  7. ^ Fuji TV cancels PRIDE for good, FightOpinion.com. Last retrieved December 5, 2006
  8. ^ DSE press conference notes, FightOpinion.com. Last retrieved December 5, 2006
  9. ^ "Mike Tyson's World Tour" begins October 20th, MMAFighting.com. Last retrieved December 5, 2006
  10. ^ a b c d PRIDE MAKING BIG CHANGES IN 2007, MMAWeekly.com. Last retrieved December 5, 2006
  11. ^ PRIDE rules, Official PRIDE site. Last retrieved December 5, 2006
  12. ^ Mixed Martial Arts Unified Rules of Conduct, Additional Mixed Martial Arts Rules, New Jersey Athletic Control Board. Retrieved April 3, 2006
  13. ^ NSAC Regulations: CHAPTER 467 - UNARMED COMBAT. Nevada State Athletic Commission. Retrieved December 5, 2006

  External links

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Major promotions: Ultimate Fighting Championship | PRIDE Fighting Championships | HERO's
Other promotions: Pancrase | KOTC | Rumble on the Rock | EFC | WEC | MFC | ZST | DEEP | Cage Rage | Cage Warriors | FFC | IFL | TKO | Strikeforce | WWCN
Defunct promotions: IVC | RINGS | WFA
Sanctioning bodies: Shooto | International Sport Combat Federation


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The Ultimate Fighter
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Genre Reality, Sports
Running time 60 minutes
Creator(s) Craig Piligian, Frank Fertitta III, Lorenzo Fertitta, Dana White
Starring Dana White
Country of origin United States
Original channel Spike TV
Original run January 18, 2005–Present
No. of episodes 52 (including four Ultimate Finales)
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The Ultimate Fighter is a reality television series and mixed martial arts competition, originating from United States, and produced by Spike TV and the Ultimate Fighting Championship. In a format similar to the TV series Survivor and Big Brother, professional MMA fighters that have yet to be featured by major MMA promotions are situated in a house outside of Las Vegas, Nevada and compete against each other for the title of Ultimate Fighter, winning a six-figure, multi-fight contract with the UFC.

For each season, prospect UFC fighters are selected in two weight classes. They are divided into two teams, each team coached by a current UFC headliner. The teams would then compete (in a manner which varies by season) to determine which would have the right to pair one of their own fighters against an opponent of their choice in the same weight class to an MMA match, the loser eliminated from the house. At the end of a series, the four remaining fighters of each weight class are placed in a single-elimination tournament, where the title of Ultimate Fighter is awarded to the winner.

The show features the daily preparations each fighter makes to train for competition and the interactions they have with each other living under the same roof. Day-to-day events on the show are overseen by UFC president Dana White.

With the exception of the season finales, fights on The Ultimate Fighter are classified as exhibition matches and do not count for or against a fighters professional record. This is done to keep the results from going public before the air date.

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  Seasons

  The six-figure contract

The winners of the first three seasons of The Ultimate Fighter competition, and certain runner-ups depending on their performance in their competition finals, receive the touted "six-figure" contract to fight in the UFC. These contracts are specifically three-year contracts with a guaranteed first year. Each year consists of three fights, the first year's purse per fight consist of $12,000 guaranteed with a $12,000 win bonuses (a maximum of $24,000 per fight), the second year's purse per fight is $16,000 with a $16,000 win bonus (a maximum of $32,000 per fight) and the third year's purse per fight is at $22,000 with a $22,000 win bonus (a maximum of $44,000 per fight). A TUF winner who goes 9-0 can earn $300,000 total on the contract, but only $36,000 is guaranteed.[1]

Those that have not won the competition can still fight in the UFC. Their contracts however are not the same as the six-figure deal above.

  Future plans

On March 23, 2006, UFC and Spike TV announced they have agreed to an extension of their working agreement and there will be four more seasons of The Ultimate Fighter after TUF3. TUF 5 & 6 will air in 2007, and TUF 7 will air in 2008.[2]

A Spanish language version of the series, tentatively known as Ultimate Fighter Mexico, is in the works.[3]

  See also

  External links

The Ultimate Fighter - Season 1
Fighters: Stephan Bonnar | Kenny Florian | Forrest Griffin | Sam Hoger | Alex Karalexis | Josh Koscheck | Chris Leben | Nathan Quarry | Josh Rafferty | Diego Sánchez | Christopher Sanford | Alex Schoenauer | Lodune Sincaid | Bobby Southworth | Mike Swick | Jason Thacker

Coaches: Randy Couture | Chuck Liddell


The Ultimate Fighter - Season 2
Josh Burkman | Dan Christison | Luke Cummo | Marcus Davis | Rashad Evans | Melvin Guillard | Jorge Gurgel | Brad Imes | Keith Jardine | Eli Joslin | Rob MacDonald | Sammy Morgan | Tom Murphy | Seth Petruzelli | Kerry Schall | Kenny Stevens | Joe Stevenson | Anthony Torres | Jason Von Flue | Mike Whitehead

Coaches: Rich Franklin | Matt Hughes


The Ultimate Fighter - Season 3
Michael Bisping | Tait Fletcher | Jesse Forbes |