What is the difference between MMA and UFC?

Question

What is the difference between MMA and UFC?

Answer 1

What is the difference between boxing and the WBO?

The UFC is just an organization which sponsors MMA bouts.

PRIDE was the other organization, but it went under.

Answer 2

well ufc is way harder than just mma.  and better.  kinda like how superkarate is way better than just karate...

Answer 3

MMA - mixed martial arts -  the name of the sport

UFC - Ultimate Fighting Champ. - The name of the company/league

thats like asking whats the difference between football and the dallas cowboys...

Answer 4

analogy...since the people above kinda had it right, but not quite....  UFC is to MMA :: NBA is to basketball::NFL is to Football::MLB is to baseball::NHL is to hockey

There are other leagues in the form of all of these sports its just the most recognizable form.

Answer 5

MMA stands for Mixed Martial Arts.  

UFC is one of many different organizations that showcase the MMA type fighting.  There's others, like Pride, K1, EliteXC, etc. who all are basically MMA fighting organizations - some of the rules my differ slightly and they have different fighters, but other than that, they're basically the same.

Answer 6

MMA is to the UFC as Basketball is to the Boston Celtics

Answer 7

UFC=MMA

Jack Links=Beef Jerky

George W. Bush=Great World Leader

Answer 8

Mixed Martial Arts is a sport encompassing many forms of fighting, including boxing, muay thai, wrestling, Judo, and Brazilian Jiujitsu, among others.

The UFC, or Ultimate Fighting Championship, is a Mixed Martial Arts promotion.  They put on Mixed Martial Arts fights, and are just one of many promotions around the world, but they are the biggest promotion out there, and most of the elite level fighters fight for the UFC.

Answer 9

The differences are that UFC show cases MMA artists as well as "traditional arts" and street fighters as to where the "Mixed Martial Arts" are put together by instructors that study several different styles/arts and open schools that teach a mix of the different arts that they've learned over the years.  There is no "one set universal MMA style".  The UFC showcases fighters with backgrounds in Boxing, Kickboxing, Jujitsu, Judo, Roman Grego wrestling, Tae Know Do and Karate to name a few.

The Mixed Martial Arts taught under my own system "American Combat System" http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseac... will differ from another instructor's curriculum and skill sets during training as well.  Skill sets them selves are the arts that one's entire system or systems will be made up of.  Kind of like the old saying, "The whole is greater than the sum its parts" Pat Miletich's "systems", for example, is a series of training levels as well as art forms and other aspects of training hence "Systems" instead of "System". Some MMA training facilities don't even use the "Americanized Belt Ranking System" while training their students/practitioners.  There are a ton of differences between actual Mixed Martial Arts schools, academies and institutions, not only in their curriculums, but some are "private" organizations and a few here and there are opened to the public in general.  MMA it's self is easily confussed by non-practitioners as being a "one universal" art when nothing could be farther from the truth.

UFC = Showcasing skills from a single art or mixed arts.

MMA = An instructor's teaching curriculum based on the several different arts he's studied or favors or both which he passes on to pratitioners who then go into sports that call them selves MMA sports.

One more thing that I'd like to add here from a pratitioner's point of view is that the "Mixed Martial Arts" have been around since the 1980's, in a some what popular sense among practitioners that is and really didn't become mainstream until Dana White took over the UFC in 2001. MMA has just, within the past 6 years or so, become a pop-culture trend.   Mixed Martial Arts were, in my own opinion, considered a very "unserious" way of practicing martial arts when I was a kid.  It's amazing how a organization like the UFC has made the Mixed Martial Arts as well as Japanese jujitsu and BJJ so main stream.  The Mixed Martial Arts were considered "taboo" by  many Karate, Tae Kwon Do and other such traditionalist arts instructors.  As a matter of fact out of the three arts I just named only Japanese jujitsu was considered serious enough to practice by most of America's traditionalist arts instructors, but I can remember a time when the word "Jujitsu" was considered non-exsistent as well among traditionalists.

How quickly people forget the truth about MMA and it's origins or they never really cared until the UFC made MMA what it is considered today.  Fans still believe that MMA is just a sport even though it's absolute origins are based in "self-defense" just like Jujitsu.

These days the practitioner his self makes MMA what it is, but it used to be the other way around back in the 80's.

Answer 10

MMA or mixed martial arts is a sport

UFC or ultimate fighting championship is a promotion with in the sport

there are thousnds of promotion in MMA UFC king of the cage elite XC IFL etc. all basically the same thing the UFc is just the "major league" of MMA

Answer 11

UFC is a league that hosts MMA fights

Mixed Martial Arts the host Ultimate Fighting Championship.

There many more leagues out there for instance

Pride, K1, WEC, Elite XC, and many many more.

Most people when talking about MMA refer it to UFC only because UFC is the league that put MMA as a sport on the map.

Answer 12

theres no difference...its the same thing...ufc is just a company that displays mma....its like pride or strikeforce...but ya....thats about it.