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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.
"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
Chuck Liddell vs. Randy Couture
400,000
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.
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.
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:
Submission
A fighter taps either his opponent or the mat three times.
A fighter may also verbally submit.
Knockout
A fighter falls from a legal blow and is either unconscious or
unable to immediately continue.
Technical Knockout
Referee Stoppage (the referee stops the match after seeing
that one fighter is completely dominant to the point of
endangering his opponent).
Doctor Stoppage (the referee stops the match in the event that
a fighter is injured via a legal blow and the ring doctor
determines that he cannot continue).
Forfeited Match (a fighter's corner throws in the towel).
Decision
If the match reaches its time limit then the outcome of the
bout is determined by the three judges. The fight is scored in
its entirety and not round-by-round. After the third round, each
judge must decide a winner. Matches cannot end in a draw. A
decision is made according to the following criteria in this
order of priority:
the effort made to finish the fight via KO or submission,
damage given to the opponent,
standing combinations and ground control,
takedowns and takedown defense,
aggressiveness, and
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.
Disqualification
A "warning" will be given in the form of a yellow
card (along with a 10% deduction in fight purse)
when a fighter commits an illegal action or does not follow the
referee's instruction. Three warnings will result in a
disqualification.
A fighter will be disqualified if a match is stopped on advice
of the ring doctor as a result of his deliberate illegal
actions.
The application of oil,
ointment,
spray,
Vaseline,
massaging cream, hair cream, or any other substances to any part
of the fighter's body before and during the fights is
prohibited. The discovery of any of these substances will result
in a disqualification.
No Contest
In the event that both sides commit a violation of the rules,
the bout will be declared a "No Contest."
If a fight is stopped on advice of the ring doctor after an
accidental but illegal action, i.e. a clash of heads, the match
will be declared a no contest in the first round only.
Fouls
PRIDE Fighting Championships considers the following to be fouls:
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)
Intentionally throwing your opponent out of the ring.
Running out of the ring.
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
If both fighters are on the verge of falling out of the ring or
become entangled in the ropes, the referee will stop the action. The
fighters must immediately stop their movements and will then be
repositioned in the center of the ring in the same position. Once
they are comfortably repositioned, they resume at the referee's
instruction.
Referees can give a fighter color cards for lack of activity.
Every card, including warning cards, are a 10% deduction of a
fighter's purse. This method prevents slow action and mobilizes the
fighters.
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:
If both fighters are in the middleweight class and there is a
weight difference of 10 kg/22 lb or more between the fighters.
If the match is between a middleweight and heavyweight and there
is a weight difference of 10 kg/22 lb or more between the fighters.
If both fighters are in the heavyweight class and there is a
weight difference of 15 kg/33 lb or more between the fighters.
PRIDE Bushido
There are a few minor differences from main PRIDE events.
Bouts on PRIDE Bushido events consist of two rounds; the first
lasting ten minutes and the second lasting five. Intermissions
between each round are two minutes in length.
Bushido "Challenge Matches" consist of two rounds
lasting five minutes each. Intermissions between each round are two
minutes in length.
In Bushido, red cards are issued in a similar way that yellow
cards are used in PRIDE FC. A red card results in a 10% deduction of
the fighter's fight purse. Red cards can be given out in an
unlimited number without disqualification. If fighters commit the
following actions, they shall be given a red card by officials:
Stalling or failure to initiate any offensive attack,
making no attempt to finalize the match or damage the
opponent, and
holding the opponent's body with the arms and legs to produce
a stalemate.
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 allows kicking
and kneeing
the head of a downed
opponent who is on his back. This is considered a foul in the
Unified Rules, which only allows kicks and knees to the body of a
downed opponent.
PRIDE allows a fighter to stomp
a downed
opponent. This is considered a foul in the Unified Rules.
PRIDE allows a fighter to spike
an opponent. This is considered a foul in the Unified Rules.
PRIDE does not allow elbow
strikes to the head. The Unified rules allows elbows provided
they are not striking directly down with the point of the elbow.
PRIDE's matches include a ten minute first round, with two minute
rest periods. The Unified rules allow rounds no longer than five
minutes, with rest periods not exceeding one minute.
PRIDE's matches are not judged on the ten point must system,
rather judges score the whole fight. The Unified rules call for all
matches to be judged using the ten point must system.
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.
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.
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]
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