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2013 International Conference on Advances in Social Science, Humanities, and Management (ASSHM 2013) Research on the Technique Types of 20 UFC Champions Hu Zurong Department of Physical Education, Nanchang University, Nanchang 330031 Abstract search on Chinese Martial Arts and American Ultimate Fighting Techniques[5] Through the analysis of technique types and several other monographs have been of 20 UFC champions, the result shows found. Others, such as MMA, K-1[6], that the champions embody a wide varie- MMA, UFC [7], MMA, K-ONE and other ty of fighting techniques. UFC champions Professional Events[8], MMA Events [9] who have won maximum times have a are only mentioned by words, no special variety of different types of technique studies. style; wrestling, Brazilian jiu-jitsu, box- To sum up, MMA has got the attention of ing, Muay Thai, karate and taekwondo Chinese scholars, but still the studies on champion are the fighting techniques MMA and other world combat sports is which are relatively more involved in the lacking. In view that the development of training of UFC. Chinese martial arts is not so smooth and MMA is going to sweep the world, the Keywords: UFC champion; technique researches on MMA and other world type; MMA fighting matches are bound to be strengthened. 1. Introduction 1.2. Research Significance 1.1. Status and Trends UFC (Ultimate Fighting Championship), coming from the U.S., is now the MMA’s MMA (Mixed Martial Arts) is a match top events. UFC champions are from where players of boxing, judo and wres- many countries and are all top players of tling, karate, etc. compete with each other. many fighting factions who has a unique MMA has gradually become a final de- career characteristics, which has an im- velopment of world class fighting tour- portant role in raising the level of Chinese nament. About the study on MMA, when players and enlightening the development researching China Knowledge Resource of Chinese martial arts. In the world San- Integrated Database, only Analysis of da competition, the Chinese Sanda results Technology Utilization in 2011 Ultimate are seriously threatened; in international Fighting Competition [1], Research on fighting competitions, it’s almost hard to Winning Strategy for Chinese Martial find a Chinese player on the scene. UFC Athletes in K-1 Tournament[2], Compari- champion training characteristics can be son and Contrast of Sports Culture of an important reference when selecting, Chinese Sanda and American MMA[3], training Chinese player and during their Study On Chinese Sanda Athletes Start competitions. This paper studies the tech- Training of "Other Fighting Projects[4] nology types of champions of interna- and the Comparison and Contrast Re- tional top competitions UFC fighting. On © 2013. The authors - Published by Atlantis Press 675 the one hand provide relating theory of 3. Results international MMA; on the other hand provide a new perspective for the study of 3.1. Selection of 20 UFC champion China's martial arts development. This essay selected Anderson Silva, An- drei Arlovski, BJ Penn, Brock Lesnar, 2. Methods Chuck Liddell, Frank Mir, Frankie Edgar, Georges St-Pierre, Jens Pulver, Kevin 2.1. Literature Method Randleman, Lyoto Machida, Matt We have downloaded more than 60 jour- Hughes, Murilo Bustamante, Pat Miletich, nal articles, dissertations and newspaper Quinton Jackson, Randy Couture, Rich articles from China Knowledge Resource Franklin, Sean Sherk, Tim Sylvia and Ti- Integrated Database about "UFC", to Ortiz(see Table 1) as the main objects. "MMA", " Sanda ", " mixed martial arts " Table 1 List of 20 UFC Champions Ba- and others; have searched UFC champion sics Information information in Baidu Encyclopedia, Wik- NAME TECHNIQUE TYPE Anderson Muay Thai, Boxing, Brazilian Jiu- ipedia and other websites; have down- Silva Jitsu, Taekwondo, Judo, Capoeira loaded UFC champions information over Andrei Ar- Kickboxing, Sambo, Brazilian Jiu- the years from UFC China website lovski Jitsu B.J. Penn Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, Boxing (http://www.ufc-1.com/), UFC MMA Brock Lesnar Wrestling, Submission Wrestling championship website Chuck Lid- Kenpō Karate, Koei-Kan Karate, (http://sports.sohu.com/ufc/) and other dell Kickboxing, Wrestling Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, Muay Thai, Box- Frank Mir fighting sports website. ing, Kenpō Karate, Wrestling Wrestling, Boxing, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, 2.2. Mathematical Statistics Method Frankie Edgar Muay Thai About the information of UFC champion, Georges St- Kyokushin, Muay Thai,Boxing, Wres- Pierre tling,Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, Gaidojutsu many domestic and foreign websites have Jens Pulver Boxing, Wrestling different levels of description, such as Kevin Freestyle Wrestling, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Baidu Encyclopedia, Wikipedia, etc., dif- Randleman ferences exist between these resources Lyoto Machida Karate, Shotokan Karate, and Wikipedia are relatively more author- Machida Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Wrestling, Submission Grappling, Matt Hughes itative and more comprehensive. After a Boxing Murilo serious discussion within group members Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and consulting the views of experts and Bustamante Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, Karate, Boxing, scholars, we select the information from Pat Miletich Muay Thai, Wrestling, Freestyle Wikipedia. On July 6, 2011, selected Fighting those who have won at least two champi- Quinton Jack- Wrestling, Boxing, Muay Thai onships from 2000 to 2010 in List of son [10] UFC Champions (including defending Randy Cou- Greco-Roman Wrestling, Boxing, champion) as the objects, totally 20. Ana- ture Muay Thai, Catch Wrestling Boxing, Kickboxing, Muay Thai, Bra- lyze the data of technique types of the 20 Rich Franklin UFC champions from Wikipedia to ex- zilian Jiu-Jitsu plore the relating rules. Sean Sherk Wrestling, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, Boxing Tim Sylvia Kickboxing, Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Tito Ortiz Wrestling, Kickboxing Since these 20 players are all champions from 2000 to 2011 UFC, to some extent, they can be the representatives of the new 676 era; as for their performance, several fighting techniques, and these fighting champions included have won more than techniques are combined together on the five times. Besides that, there are also basis of mutual complementary thus cre- some cross-level champions like Ander- ating a good player . son Silva, Chuck Liddell, Matt Hughes 3.3. The Connection between Cham- and Randy Couture, etc. who have won pionship and Technique Style UFC 5-8 times. BJ Penn and Randy Cou- ture are the only two players who have To find out the relationship between won two levels competition. championship and technique style, we 3.2. Technique Styles of 20 UFC analyzed the technique style of 20 UFC Champions champions, including four players who have won (defending champion involved) Herein we define the term “technique champion 8 times or more, namely, style” as the equal meaning of “technique Randy Couture, Matt Hughes, Anderson species”, such as sanda, taekwondo, box- Silva and Georges St-Pierre. The former ing, wrestling, Muay Thai and judo. two have won nine championships and According to calculation, the 20 UFC the latter two have won eight champion- champions have been taught totally 67 ships. (Table 3) kinds of techniques, an average of 3.35 Table3 Technique Style of Players Won kinds per person, that is, everyone have 8 Times or More WINNING TECHNIQUE received the professional training of more NAME TOTAL than three kinds of fighting techniques. TIMES STYLE Greco-Roman Four of them have got the training of Randy Wrestling, Boxing, 9 4 kinds more than five kinds (Table 2). Couture Muay Thai, Catch Table 2 UFC Champions learn more than Wrestling Wrestling, Submis- Matt Five Kinds of Technique Species 9 sion Grappling, 3 kinds Hughes NAME TECHNIQUE SPECIES TOTAL Boxing Muay Thai, Boxing, Bra- Muay Thai, Box- Anderson zilian Jiu-Jitsu,Taekwondo, 6 Anderson ing, Brazilian Jiu- Silva 8 6 kinds Judo, Capoeira Silva Jitsu,Taekwondo, Kyokushin,Muay Judo, Capoeira Georges Thai,Boxing, Wres- Kyokushin,Muay 6 St-Pierre tling,Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, Thai,Boxing, Georges Gaidojutsu 8 Wrestling,Brazilian 6 kinds St-Pierre Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, Karate, Jiu-Jitsu, Gaidojut- Pat Milet- Boxing, Muay Thai, Wres- 6 su ich tling, Freestyle Fighting Table 3 shows that Randy Couture and Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, Muay Frank Mir Thai, Boxing, Kenpō Kara- 5 Matt Hughes have a technique style of te, Wrestling four species and three species, Anderson Table 2 shows that, Anderson Silva, Silva and Georges St-Pierre have six Georges St-Pierre and Pat Miletich obtain kinds. Therefore we can learn that UFC the most kinds of technique species. For champions who have won maximum example, Anderson Silva has received the times have a variety of different types of professional training of Muay Thai, box- technique style; the integration of various ing, Brazilian jiu-jitsu, taekwondo, judo types of fighting techniques is an im- and Brazilian Capoeira; Georges St- portant condition for MMA ability. Pierre has experienced the training of ka- rate, Muay Thai, boxing, wrestling, Bra- zilian jiu-jitsu and Greg surgery . Thus we can draw a conclusion that UFC champion usually is skilled at a variety of 677 3.4. Distribution of Technique Style in 4. References the Training of 20 UFC Champi- on [1] Li Jilin. Analysis of the Use of Tech- niques in 2011 Ultimate Fighting Fighting martial is an ancient skill. In the Competition [J]. Fighting • Martial evolution process of nature, humans be- Science, 2012, 9 (3):83 -84, 101. ing cannot survive without the help of [2] Yang Dianli, Qiu Zhenqiang, Ding fighting ability. Every nation in the world Hongwei. The Study of Winning has its own unique fighting skills which Strategy for Chinese Martial Sanda have a unique technique style and differ- Athletes in the K-1 Game [J]. ent technique style has different martial Fighting • Martial Science, 2009,6 effect. In order to know the frequency of (3) :54- 56. technique style in the training of UFC [3] Liu Mingliang, Gao Jing.
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