UC Law SF Communications and Entertainment Journal
Abstract
The past fifteen years have seen the emergence of a new sport in America and around the world: mixed martial arts ("MMA'). MMA is an interdisciplinary combat sport where participants engage in and combine a variety of fighting disciplines (e.g., kickboxing, wrestling, karate, jiu-jitsu, and so on) in a single match. In this Article, Professor Maher examines and analyzes the sport's evolution, tracing it from its shaggy, brutish beginnings to its current incarnation; articulates a pragmatic and comparative theory of sporting legitimacy; reviews and describes the state-based and administrative nature of MMA regulation; and highlights two reform possibilities of interest to industry players, reformers, and scholars.
Recommended Citation
Brendan S. Maher,
Understanding and Regulating the Sport of Mixed Martial Arts,
32 Hastings Comm. & Ent. L.J. 209
(2010).
Available at: https://repository.uclawsf.edu/hastings_comm_ent_law_journal/vol32/iss2/2
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