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 UC Law SF Comm. & Ent. L.J. 209
(2010).
Available at: https://repository.uclawsf.edu/hastings_comm_ent_law_journal/vol32/iss2/2
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