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Many BJJ fighters have had tremendous success with submissions until they break into the top 10. At which point they may have to adopt a more conservative game rather than an opportunistic one, especially when you have a time limit and your opponent gets rewarded for standing up (also in BJJ referees don't often stand you up like they do in MMA). You have 5 minutes to take you opponent down, keep him down, pass his guard, and submit them. Not an easy task against the 10 best in the world. Lower amount of opponent error is also why evenly matched fighters have such uneventful matches.
It felt great to get this win here in the UFC," Barnett said after finishing Mir at UFC 164. "It's been a long time coming. And it's great to get this match-up with Frank. There's always been a likelihood of me and Frank fighting — we were always top ten in our division, it just never quite worked out until tonight. The Ultimate Fighting Championship is a United States based organization, which is aimed at the promotion of martial arts. Well, Mixed Martial Arts is a combination of several schools of fighting. Most of the fighters of MMA are trained in wrestling, boxing, jiu-jitsu, and kick boxing.
Mixed Martial Arts have been in practice since 1980s. The traces of mixed martial arts style can be seen throughout Japan , Europe and the Pacific Rim even from 1900s. However, MMA got much popularity after the formation of UFC in 1993. The credit of UFC goes to Art Davie, Rorion Gracie and Robert Meyrowitz. The Ultimate Fighting Championship has its headquarters in Las Vegas. Many people think that Ultimate Fighting Championship and Mixed Marital Arts are different. But the real fact is that they stand for the same thing. One will not be able to stand excluded from the other.
In what could be an important fight going forward for the divisional standing, both men enter Saturday night coming off of differing performances in their last respective outings. Following an array of well-publicised personal problems, Munoz looked in shape and on point as he bounced back superbly at UFC 162 to dismantle fellow contender Tim Boestch over three painful rounds for “The Barbarian”. Conversely, on the next Pay-Per-View, UFC163, Machida was on the wrong end of a controversial judges call. All cards were unanimous in giving Phil Davis the decision over “The Dragon” in what was a dour fifteen minutes of fighting.
