USA Today: rise of MMA is the sports story of the decade

speeds · Dec 18, 2009

http://www.usatoday.com/sports/decade-breakouts.htm

The online poll so far shows MMA's emergence getting 54% of the total vote, more than the other stories combined.

Mixed martial arts: Into the ring — or the octagon — exploded mixed martial arts, a sport with roots in ancient Greece but as modern as short attention spans. The sport combines wrestling, boxing and open-fingered gloves mostly in three five-minute rounds, and, since the Ultimate Fighting Championship arrived in 1993, has popularized men such as Kimbo Slice, Chuck Liddell and Randy Couture. In 2001, UFC was sold for $2 million. By 2008, according to Forbes, it had the power to generate $250 million in revenue. Another example of MMA growth: UFC.com says The Ultimate Fighter on Spike averaged 3.4 million viewers this fall, 72% higher than the average audience for the first 14 weeks of the NBA on TNT.
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2nd is Matt Gilroy's "Ice Capades" and I have no bleeping idea what the hell that means so I don't know how USA Today came up with these poll options.

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