Considered a sort of grappling Olympics, the Abu Dhabi Combat Club Submission Fighting World Championship was created by Sheikh Tahnoun bin Zayed Al Nahyan in 1998. The idea? To match all grappling ...
The mix of skills, strategy, and training have changed an astonishing amount since the grappling/vale tudo/jiu-jitsu dominated 1990s. Wrestlers have been some of the biggest driving forces in this ...
The Japanese art of Jujitsu was outlawed in the late 1800s by Japan’s own Emperor in effort to become more modern. The art was saved was Jigoro Kano, a true martial arts legend, who streamlined the ...
Those who started following mixed martial arts recently have no idea what events were like back in the 1990s. Instead of sporting contests between athletes versed in numerous arts, like we see in ...