Title: The up and coming sport!
Specific purpose: To inform my audience about Mixed Martial arts.
Central Idea: Mixed Martial Arts is a unique upcoming sport that involves many different types of strategies that brings more and more viewers.
1 Introduction
A. (attention getter) Blood, violence, broken bones, punching, kicking, choking, and etc. are not what everyone enjoys watching on TV for entertainment. These days it is a world known sport that both men and women compete in around the world.
B. ( Reason to listen)While Mixed Martial Arts is making a peak in the United States the NFL is declining slowly giving MMA a chance to be Americans next stop sport.
C. (speaker credibility) Learning Mixed Marital Arts …show more content…
History A. First main point: Mixed Martial Arts has been around a lot longer than most people would think. 1. On ezinearticles.com James Dunn an expert author and a MMA trainer says that it all started in 648 B.C. in Greece. a. (factual illustration) according to ezinearticles they called their fighting competition “pankration” which was pretty much an anything goes battle with no real referees.
II. When it first started people basically looked at it as a very physical wrestling match, and now there are so many different styles of fighting.
a. (expert testimony) Fights were becoming Jiu-jitsu and boxing matches, which was basically submission fighting against punching. According to Dana White “the best fighter is someone who can adapt to any style, to be formless, to adopt an individual's own style and not following the system of styles."
III. Organized regulated fights were not fully formed in the United States until people recognized the popularity of the sport.
a. ( Expert testimony)Organized associations stepped up and formed one organization called the Ultimate Fighter Competition to regulate the professional fighting with …show more content…
B. Second Main Point: There are over 9 strategies of Mixed Martial Arts that makes each fighter unique in the way they train and fight in a competition. 1. The different disciplines that are commonly used in cage fighting are Karate, kickboxing, Muy Thai, Judo, wrestling, Brazilin Jiu-jitsu, and Kenpo. Each and every art that is listed has a different strategy to their fighting game such as striking, knees, elbows, kicks, takedowns, submissions, clinching, control, sweeps, holds, and just about everything that does not include eye gouging and kicking in the groin.
A. Jiu-jitsu and wrestling are some of the more popular Arts that just about every fighter must learn before becoming a cage fighter. Jiu-jitsu is a discipline that includes the ground game of a fight like wrestling. The strategies of a jiu-jitsu fighter is taking down an opponent and going for a submission such as a choke or an arm or leg lock. Wrestling helps a jiu-jitsu artist with ground control and taking down an