Can someone explain to me about the UFC?

Question

I loked at their calender of events and was confused. What is with the UFC and then a number a right beside it? Is that the UFC ppv number? Also for a big ufc fan out there, is says like SEEK AND DESTROY COUNTDOWN, is thaT WORTH WATCHING? Tell me whay i should watch and skip on the UFC event calendar.

SRRY but im trying to switch over from wwe to ufc, and im having trouble getting it.

Answer 1

UFC stand for Ultimate Fighting Championships.

It started as an open weight tournament with no rounds.  It has developed into a weight class/with a 10 point must scoring system with rounds.

UFC 1 designates the first UFC pay per view...

UFC 2 designates the second UFC...and so on.

The names such as "seek and destroy" are marketing tactics that employ giving them seperate names.  It helps when they label it for posters/commercials and such.

They also have other shows that air such as:

"The Ultimate Fighter"

"UFC Fight Night"

and more...

Answer 2

UFC is much closer to real than WWE. UFC isn't completely real otherwise people would get killed in the ring.

Answer 3

ufc stands for the ultimate fighting championship, and the number beside it designates which event is being held. for example, the very first ufc event was ufc 1, the second was ufc 2, the third was ufc 3, so on and so forth. seek and destroy refers to ufc 87. often they will give special names (such as ufc 1: the beginning, ufc 2: no way out, or ufc 87: seek and destroy) to different events. and yes, go ahead and watch it

Answer 4

The UFC is, as others stated below, an MMA promotion. MMA is mixed martial arts, the fighters who practice MMA are skilled in more than one skill set; for example, many are experts in boxing, wrestling, jiu-jitsu, brazilian jiu-jitsu, kickboxing, greco-roman wrestling, and the list goes on. The most common are the arts I listed as they combine well for the purposes of MMA.

The UFC has rules, which is why no one has ever died at an event, no eye-gouging, no fish-hooking, no knees to the head when the opponent is on the ground, and no hits to the back of the head. The rounds are always 5 minutes, unless stopped by the referee ending a fight either because a fighter is not intelligently defending himself, a knockout or submission, or a disqualification. A championship fight will be 5 rounds, each 5 minutes; a regular bout will be 3 rounds of 5 minutes.

Your best bet when getting into the UFC is to listen to Joe Rogan's commentary. The guy is a walking encyclopedia of MMA, he knows every submission, every move, he predicts what fighters will do before they do it. He's like Bob Costas for the UFC.

When I started off I was clueless, but as you watch you learn and you'll start picking up on what different fighters' strategies and strengths are.

A few good websites to go are www.mmajunkie.com, www.mmafrenzy.com, www.sherdog.com, ESPN has a new online MMA show which is pretty good, and Yahoo! Sports has an awesome MMA columnist.

I commend you for making the move from WWE, this is the real deal here. I've been to several events, met several fighters (and Joe, and Dana), talked to them, seen them train, etc. This is either love or hate, but it is definitely better than the WWE.