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Showcasing fighters of different proficiencies?including boxing

Davie met Rorion Gracie in 1991 while researching martial arts for any marketing client. Gracie operated a Brazilian jiu-jitsu school in Torrance chaussure de foot pas cher, California and also the Gracie family had a long good reputation for vale tudo matches?a precursor of mixed martial arts in Brazil. Davie became Gracie's student.

In 1992, inspired through the Gracies in Action video-series made by the Gracies and featuring Gracie jiu-jitsu defeating various martial-arts masters, Davie proposed to Rorion Gracie and John Milius an eight-man, single-elimination tournament having a title of War of the Worlds. The tournament would feature martial artists from different disciplines facing one another in no-holds-barred combat to determine what martial art was truly the best which replicated the excitement from the matches Davie saw on those videos.[5] Milius, a noted film director and screenwriter, as well as a Gracie student, agreed to function as the event's creative director. Davie drafted the business plan and twenty-eight investors contributed the first capital to begin WOW Promotions using the intent to build up the tournament into a television franchise

In 1993 WOW Promotions sought a tv partner and approached pay-per-view producers TVKO (HBO), SET (Showtime) and also the Semaphore Entertainment Group (SEG). Both TVKO and hang declined, but SEG ? an innovator in pay-per-view television which in fact had produced such off-beat events as a mixed-gender tennis match between Jimmy Connors and Martina Navratilova ? became WOW's partner in May 1993. SEG contacted video and film art-director Jason Cusson to create the trademarked "Octagon", a signature piece for the event. Cusson remained the development Designer through UFC 27. SEG devised the reputation for the show magista pas cher as The Ultimate Fighting Championship.

Inspired by vale tudo competitions in Brazil, the UFC held its first competition in Denver, Colorado in 1993. Showcasing fighters of different proficiencies?including boxing, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, wrestling and Muay Thai, among others?the UFC sought to identify the most effective martial-art in a real fight. Over time of political backlash, the UFC gradually underwent reform by embracing stricter rules and having sanctioning with State Athletic Commissions.

With a cable-television deal and expansion into Canada, Europe and new markets inside the United States, the UFC by 2010 has gained in popularity, together with greater mainstream-media coverage crampon mercurial. As of 2010 viewers can access UFC programming on pay-per-view television, Spike in the usa and Canada, on ESPN in the United Kingdom as well as in 33 other countries worldwide.

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