Western University Scholarship@Western Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository 8-17-2015 12:00 AM "There Are No Rules! Except These 108." The Multidirectional Flow of Influence Between Sportication, Subculture, and Violence on the History of Mixed Martial Arts Jared V. Walters The University of Western Ontario Supervisor Dr Kevin B. Wamsley The University of Western Ontario Graduate Program in Kinesiology A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the equirr ements for the degree in Master of Arts © Jared V. Walters 2015 Follow this and additional works at: https://ir.lib.uwo.ca/etd Part of the Cultural History Commons, and the Sports Studies Commons Recommended Citation Walters, Jared V., ""There Are No Rules! Except These 108." The Multidirectional Flow of Influence Between Sportication, Subculture, and Violence on the History of Mixed Martial Arts" (2015). Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository. 3148. https://ir.lib.uwo.ca/etd/3148 This Dissertation/Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by Scholarship@Western. It has been accepted for inclusion in Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository by an authorized administrator of Scholarship@Western. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. “THERE ARE NO RULES! EXCEPT THESE 108.” THE MULTIDIRECTIONAL FLOW OF INFLUENCE BETWEEN SPORTIZATION, SUBCULTURE, AND VIOLENCE ON THE HISTORY OF MIXED MARTIAL ARTS Monograph By Jared Walters Graduate Program in Kinesiology A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment Of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts The School of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies Western University London, Ontario, Canada © Jared Walters Abstract The sport of mixed martial arts (MMA), found in 1993, has a very tenuous history.