MMA pound for found promotion is US based the Ultimate Fighting Championship. The president of this association was Dana White while Zuffa LLC controlled by Frank and Lorenzo Fertitta that owns the company UFC.
The fist UFC was been held on Denver, in 1993. Fighters has different proficiencies, including boxing, Jiu-Jitsu, wrestling, and Muay Thai. UFC was sought to discover which martial arts was the most effective in real battle.
In 2009 UFC was gain in popularity with greater mainstream-media coverage. Also can watch via pay per view television.
The concept of mma pound for pound tournament is purporting to discover the world best fighting style came from Art Davie. Davie met Rorion Gracie in 1991 while researching martial arts client. Brazilian jiu jitsu operated by Gracie school in Torrance, California. The tournament would feature martial artists from different disciplines facing each other in no holds barred combat to see which martial art was truly the best which replicated the excitement of the matches Davie saw those videos. Davie drafted the business plan and twenty-eight investors contributed the initial capital to start WOW Promotions with the intent to develop the tournament into a television franchise.
MMA pound for pound best fighters on WOW promotion and SEG produced the first event, called UFC 1 on November 12, 1993. Art Davie functioned as the show’s broker and matchmaker