Museums & Institutions - Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
The mission of the Combat Sports Hall of Fame is to celebrate the achievements of elite practitioners, training camps, and organizations in mixed martial arts and all other combat sports; document the history and progression of all martial art forms; and to educate visitors, researchers, and combat sports enthusiast. The activities of the Combat Sports Hall of fame will include induction ceremonies, exhibitions, archiving records and statistics of various combat sport and its fighters, and producing educational events and programs. Individual martial arts systems will be featured as well.The institution's vision is to chronicle the progression of combat sports in an innovative manner. Establishing this nonprofit hall of fame will create a definitive authority for sports fans, scholars, and anyone interested to visit for fun or for research. Why a focus on Mixed Martial Arts? Mixed martial arts (or MMA), one of the "fastest-growing sports" in the United States according to Ultimate Fighting Championship President Dana White, is an innovation in combat sports. It has led to the creation of an industry centered on intensely trained athletes who focus on multiple martial arts disciplines. Of the vast number of martial art forms utilized in mixed martial arts Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, kickboxing, Muay Thai, international wrestling, and boxing are just five martial arts that are frequently trained by mixed martial artists. Each of these martial art forms originated in a different part of the world and has a celebrated history that is woven into its regions' respective cultures giving the Combat Sports Hall of Fame an immense amount of geography and history to cover.
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