Monday, June 30, 2008

WHAT is the WEC™ [World Extreme Cagefighting]


World Extreme Cagefigting WEC™ is the world’s leading mixed martial arts sports organization, formed in June 30, 2001.With a history of exciting MMA events and a record of 23 straight sell out crowds, the WEC has proven itself to be the premier fighting event in MMA. The WEC features a strong ownership and a depth of management experience across a spectrum of live event sports, television production and ancillary business development. The WEC is positioned well for the future as the standard for the evolving and exciting sport of mixed martial arts.

WHAT is MIXED MARTIAL ARTS?

Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) is an intense and evolving unarmed combat sport in which competitors use interdisciplinary forms of fighting that include jiu-jitsu, judo, karate, boxing, kickboxing, wrestling and others to their strategic and tactical advantage in a supervised match. Scoring for mixed martial arts events in Nevada, New Jersey, California, and Florida is based on athletic-commission approved definitions and rules for striking ( blows with the hands, feet, knees, or elbows) and grappling (submission, choke holds, throws, or takedowns). No single discipline reigns.

WHAT DISTINGUISHES WEC FROM ITS COMPETITORS?

The WEC has the best MMA competitors in the world. With a strong focus on lighter weights such as, featherweight, bantamweight, and lightweight the WEC attracts the best talent from all over the globe. The WEC brings together the most disciplined martial arts experts from around the world to compete within the steel cage. WEC fighters come from the USA, Canada, Brazil, Japan, Russia, Mexico, and England, etc. All WEC fighters have previous combat sports experience and many are world or Olympic champions. Almost all WEC fighters have studied martial arts as a lifelong vocation and many are college educated. In addition to their WEC careers, many of these men are business owners. It is the success, discipline and focus of the WEC fighter that makes him different from just about any other competitor in or of mixed martial arts.

• Absolute consistency of rules: presence of officials, judges, weight divisions, rounds, and time limits.
• Leadership in producing the best show in the world.

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1 comment:

Unknown said...

Am i the only person who finds the wreckage logo phallic? C'MON I KNOW YOU SEE THE PENIS!