The UFC is the largest MMA promotion company featuring top-ranked fighters across 9 weight divisions. Headquartered in Las Vegas, it has over 300 events to date and is led by President Dana White. Reebok has an exclusive deal to be the UFC's outfitter, providing fighters' apparel. MMA involves various martial arts and matches end by submission, knockout, referee stoppage or decision over 3 to 5 rounds.
2. LEAGUE
ASSOCIATION: UFC
• Official website: www.ufc.com
• The Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) is the largest
mixed martial arts promotion company in the world
featuring most of the top-ranked fighters in the sport.
• The organization showcases nine weight divisions and
enforces the Unified Rules of Mixed Martial Arts.
• The UFC has held over 300 events to date.
• The first UFC event was held on November 12, 1993 in
Denver, Colorado.
3. HEADQUARTER
LOCATION
• Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S.
• Address: Ultimate Fighting Championship
Office, Martial Arts Dojo, and General Entertainment
2960 W Sahara Ave (at Richfield Blvd.), LAS VEGAS, NV
89102
4. COMMISSIONER :
DANA WHITE
• Prior to becoming president of the UFC, White was an
unofficial amateur boxer as no record of his fights exist.
• He was also a boxing trainer.
• President of the mixed martial arts organization
• While working as a manager for Tito Ortiz and Chuck Liddell,
White learned that Semaphore Entertainment Group, the
parent company of the UFC, was looking for a buyer for the
UFC.
• White contacted childhood friend Lorenzo Fertitta, an
executive at Station Casinos and a former commissioner of
the Nevada State Athletic Commission.
• Within a month, Lorenzo and his older brother Frank bought
the UFC with White INSTALLED as its president.
• White owns 9% of Zuffa, LLC, the entity the Fertitta brothers
created to own and manage the UFC.
5. SEASONS: WHICH
SEASONS ARE IN
SESSION?
Mixed Martial Arts is featured in the Summer Olympics
• Runs from March to August
7. TECIA TORRES
• American mixed martial artist
• currently competing in the strawweight division of the
Ultimate Fighting Championship
• she is #5 in the official UFC strawweight rankings.
• Lives in Falls River, MA
• Nickname is “The Tiny Tornado”
8. CHAMPIONSHIPS
Heavyweight: The UFC Superfight Championship
was unified with the UFC Tournament
Championship to determine the inaugural UFC
Heavyweight Champion
Light heavyweight: he Light Heavyweight Title
was known as the Middleweight Title
Middle weight: The Pride World Welterweight
Title (183 lb) was unified with the UFC
Middleweight Title
Welterweight: he Welterweight Title was known
as the Lightweight Title
Lightweight: he Lightweight Title was known as
the Bantamweight Title
Featherweight
9. ROUNDS
• UFC matches vary
• Championship fights last for a maximum of five rounds.
• Main event fights also last a max. of five rounds
• Non-main event bouts last for a maximum of three rounds
• There is a one-minute rest period between rounds.
10. HOW THE MATCHES
END
• Submission: a fighter clearly taps the mat or his opponent, verbally
submits, or clearly communicates being in pain (such as by yelling) to a
degree that causes the referee to stop the fight. Also, a technical
submission may be called when a fighter either loses consciousness or
is on the verge of serious injury while in a hold.
• Knockout: a fighter is put into a state of unconsciousness resulting from
any legal strike.
• Technical Knockout (TKO): If the referee decides a fighter cannot
CONTINUE, the fight is ruled as a technical knockout. Technical
knockouts can be classified into three categories: 1. referee stoppage 2.
doctor stoppage 3. corner stoppage
• Disqualification: a fighter intentionally executes an illegal move that is
considered by the referee or opponent to be injurious or significant
enough to negatively alter the opponent's performance should the fight
CONTINUE, resulting in the opponent's victory.
• Forfeit: a fighter fails to compete or intentionally and prematurely ends
the bout for a reason besides injury, resulting in the opponent's victory.
11. HOW POINTS ARE
DISTRIBUTED
• The ten-point must system is in effect for all UFC fights
• three judges score each round and the winner of each
receives ten points while the loser receives nine points or
fewer (although 10–10 rounds are given in the rare event
that a judge feels the rounds was too close to warrant
giving one fighter 10 and the other 9.)
• Scores of 10–8 are typically awarded for dominant rounds
and anything more dominant is scored less.
• 10–7 rounds are very rare.
12. WEIGHT DIVISIONS
The UFC currently uses nine different weight classes:
Weight class nameUpper limit Gender
in pounds (lb) in kilograms (kg) in stones (st)
Strawweight 115 52.2 8 st 3 lb Women
Flyweight 125 56.7 8 st 13 lb Men
Bantamweight 135 61.2 9 st 9 lb Men / Women
Featherweight 145 65.8 10 st 5 lb Men
Lightweight 155 70.3 11 st 1 lb Men
Welterweight 170 77.1 12 st 2 lb Men
Middleweight 185 83.9 13 st 3 lb Men
Light Heavyweight 205 93.0 14 st 6 lb Men
Heavyweight 265 120.2 18 st 13 lb Men
13. PROFESSIONAL ARTICLE
FROM REFEREED
JOURNAL
http://www.sportspsychologycoaching.com/articles/TheMent
alGameOfMixedMartialArts.html
Title: The Mental Game of Mixed Article Arts
Source: Google search filtered “Peer Reviewed Articles”
“Modern fighters embrace mental toughness. They know
they must have the mental resiliency and hardiness that
comes from mental training. They know that when they step
into the ring, the octagon or onto the mat, they must be able
to answer a major, critical question. Am I ready mentally,
emotionally, physically and tactically? Confidence is the
name of the game in MMA, and mental training can give you
that golden CURRENCY.”
16. NON-LEAGUE
COMPANY : REEBOK
Reebok International Ltd.
• 1895 J W Foster Blvd, Canton, MA 02021
• an athletic footwear and apparel company
• Reebok produces and distributes fitness and sports items
including shoes, workout clothing and accessories, and
training equipment.
• The global headquarters are located in Canton,
Massachusetts, U.S. with regional offices in Amsterdam
(EMEA), Montreal (Canada), Hong Kong (Asia Pacific) and
Mexico City (Central and South America).
• They have offices in the Americas, India, throughout
Europe, and in Australia
17. REEBOK AND UFC
On December 2, 2014, the UFC and Reebok held a press
conference to announce an EXCLUSIVE DEAL for Reebok to
become the worldwide outfitter for the UFC, beginning in July
2015.
