In spring 2009, Peter Moore, president of Electronic Arts Sports, expressed his doubts about the future of combat sports in video games. “The boxing seems to me unfortunately belong to the past combat, and Combat Libre gives me the impression that the future of the fight. We will see where people’s attention and that is something we monitor closely .
Two months later, qu’UFC 2009 THQ came out, Electronic Arts officially announced his label Mixed Martial Arts at E3 in Los Angeles. The reform of the jab is running.
The Mixed Martial Arts or Combat Libre is a combat sport that multidisciplinary back out further than anyone imagined. After spending three years in Japan, the engineer Edward William Barton-Wright returned to London in 1898 to surround themselves with teachers and to found a school of a new art of self defense.
His method named “Bartitsu” embodied learning judo, jujutsu, the slipper, cane, of boxing. Although the school closed in 1902 because of student, Conan Doyle had already made his famous concept in 1901 in The Empty House of Return of Sherlock Holmes, as Holmes explained his defeat Moriarty in Switzerland with his knowledge “Baritsu.
The pioneering idea of Barton-Wright fell into disuse and learning several disciplines remained for athletes a way to diversify their range of shots. With the Pride Fighting Championship and Ultimate Fighting Championship as developers saw an opportunity to organize fights between practitioners of different schools.
In 1993, the UFC built in Las Vegas his Octagon Mesh in which fighters opposed to very violent. The show is censored, critics speak of spectacle with disgust, the UFC is likened to a rat race out of control.
Meanwhile, in 1997, Pride was created in Japan, became the expansion of Japanese wrestling very violent, imposing some ridiculous rules. No elbow or head strike ban in the back of the skull. Meetings do not end as a KO, a decision of an arbitrator or abandoned outright or making submission, armbar type. Read the rest of this entry »