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Mixed martial arts in Australia

April 13, 2024

Mixed martial arts (MMA) has developed in Australia from a wide cross-section of sporting and martial arts disciplines to become the most popular combat sport in the country.[3][4][5][6][7]

CountryAustralia
Governing bodyInternational Mixed Martial Arts Federation of Australia[1]
National team(s)Australia
Audience records
Single matchUFC 243, 57,127, 6 October 2019, Marvel Stadium[2]

History edit

The influence traditional martial arts, Olympic wrestling and Brazilian jiu-jitsu have shaped MMA in Australia, along with the combat sports of Boxing and Kickboxing/Muay Thai.

Between 1905–1914, Australian's witnessed a prizefighting novelty called "All-in" which started with "jiu jitsu" demonstrations and developed into a no-holds barred fighting phenomenon.[8] One of the most notable participants was Sam McVea, an African-American heavyweight boxing champion who would participate in a highly publicised "all-in" fight in Lismore, Australia, against 'Prof.' Stevenson in 1913.[9]

However, the early hybrid didn't last and during most of the 20th century traditional martial arts schools and striking based gyms existed apart as with Amateur wrestling in Australia.[10] Traditional martial arts in general are well attended and feature in the top ten organised sports for children, for both males and females, in Australia.[11]

In the 1990s the three grappling disciplines of BJJ, amateur wrestling and Catch wrestling provided the base for the modern sport.[12] Mixed Martial Arts, in its recognized and regulated form, came to Australia via the Ultimate Fighting Championship's emergence in 1993, but was predated by Vale tudo in Brasil and Shoot wrestling in Japan. MMA gained an underground following through video and bootleg copies of UFC events in the mid 1990s.

The explosion of BJJ globally, through Gracie BJJ schools, was assisted by the success of Royce Gracie at UFC 1-4, but BJJ was first introduced into Australia by John Will in 1989.[13] Initially dedicated Australian practitioners travelled overseas to gain their belts and returned to start schools. Mixed Martial Arts training and gyms began to evolve.

The long history of boxing and the more recent variant of kickboxing/Muay Thai in Australia provided a large injection of fighters with a striking base. The sport of MMA has been described as the fastest growing sport in the twenty first century.[14]

Sanctioning edit

States and territories of Australia there are different sanctioning bodies and rules. Sanctioning bodies include: Combat Sports Authority (NSW),[15] Professional Boxing and Combat Sports Board (VC) and Combat Sports Commission of Western Australia (WA).[16]

Notable fighters (1990s to present) edit

Promotions edit

Ultimate Fighting Championship edit

Local MMA Promotions edit

  • Aftershock MMA – Brisbane, Queensland – Professional and Amateur Fight Promotion
  • Australian Fighting Championship – Melbourne, Victoria
  • BRACE
  • Carnage in the Cage (CITC) – Mackay, Queensland, Australia
  • Coastal Combat – Sunshine Coast, Queensland
  • Eternal MMA – Gold Coast, Queensland
  • Fightworld Cup – Gold Coast, Queensland
  • HAMMA Fight Night – Brisbane, Queensland
  • Hex Fight Series – Melbourne, VIC
  • Minotaur Mixed Martial Arts (Melbourne Fight Club) – Melbourne
  • Nitro MMA
  • Storm Damage – Australian Capital Territory
  • Superfight MMA (Superfight Australia) aka (Mach1FightClub) – New South Wales
  • Unarmed Combat Unleashed (UCU) – Emerald, Queensland
  • Urban Fight Night – Liverpool, New South Wales
  • Wollongong Wars (WW) – Wollongong
  • XFC – Australian and New Zealand professional and amateur
  • Xtreme Impact Fighting Championships (XIFC) – Toowoomba, Queensland
  • Demolition Fight Series – Sunshine, Victoria

Past edit

Amateur MMA Organizations edit

Some may have one or two pro fights but their focus is on AMMY.

Reality television edit

Gyms edit

See also: List of professional MMA training camps

some mixed martial arts training camps and gyms.[33]

  • Gamebred Academy – Brisbane, Queensland
  • Fightcross MMA – Brisbane, Queensland
  • Absolute MMA – Melbourne, Victoria
  • Australian Elite Team
  • Australian Top Team – Sydney, New South Wales
  • Bulldog MMA Parramatta
  • Igor MMA Sydney
  • Dominance MMA – Melbourne, Victoria
  • ELEV8 MMA – Melbourne, Victoria
  • Extreme MMA – Melbourne, Victoria
  • Hammers Gym
  • KMA Top Team – Sydney, New South Wales
  • Integrated MMA – Brisbane, Queensland
  • Kings Academy of Martial Arts
  • Riddlers Gym – Perth, Western Australia
  • Sinosic Perosh Martial Arts
  • VT1 Mixed Martial Arts Academy – Sydney, New South Wales
  • 99ers MMA Gym
  • Kumiai Ryu Martial Arts
  • Langes Mixed Martial Arts – Sydney, New South Wales
  • Perth Kickboxing Academy
  • Blue Mountains Martial Arts Centre
  • Westside MMA – Caroline Springs, Victoria
  • The MMA Clinic – Perth, Western Australia
  • Scrappy MMA – Perth, Western Australia

Media outlets edit

  • Fight News Australia
  • Submission Radio
  • From The Stands

References edit

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  2. ^ "Australian Sports Attendance Records - Austadiums". Austadiums.com.
  3. ^ "Mixed Martial Arts goes mainstream: ninemsn launches MMA Kanvas". Mi9.com.au. 2013-02-01. Retrieved 2014-02-11.
  4. ^ "Why Mixed Martial Arts has superseded Boxing in Australia". The Roar. 2011-03-02. Retrieved 2014-02-11.
  5. ^ "Cage fighting becoming the new 'blood sport' - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)". Abc.net.au. Retrieved 2014-02-11.
  6. ^ Robyn Preston (2013-02-20). "Perth not willing to bring in the bucks through mixed martial arts". Watoday.com.au. Retrieved 2014-02-11.
  7. ^ "Gangs Drawn to Unregulated Mixed Martial Arts Scene". Theaustralian.com.au. Retrieved 2014-02-11.
  8. ^ "The Martial Chronicles: Jiu-Jitsu Conquers Australia". Cageside Seats. Retrieved 2014-02-11.
  9. ^ "The Martial Chronicles: All-In Down Under With Sam McVea". Cageside Seats. Retrieved 2014-02-11.
  10. ^ "Australian Olympic Committee: Wrestling". Corporate.olympics.com.au. Retrieved 2014-02-11.
  11. ^ "1301.0 - Year Book Australia, 2012". Abs.gov.au.
  12. ^ "The Fighter". Australianmmaassociation.com.
  13. ^ . Bjj.com.au. Archived from the original on 2014-01-28. Retrieved 2014-02-11.
  14. ^ "'World's Fastest Growing Sport' — Fact or Hype?". Cagepotato,com. Retrieved 2014-02-11.
  15. ^ "Combat Sports Authority | Office of Sport". Combatsports.nsw.gov.au. Retrieved 2017-12-05.
  16. ^ "Combat Sports Commission". Dsr.wa.gov.au. Retrieved 2017-12-05.
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  23. ^ Richardson, Daniel (2015-02-17). "UFC: Hunt to meet Miocic in Adelaide". NZ Herald. ISSN 1170-0777. Retrieved 2017-12-05.
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  26. ^ "Luke Rockhold and 'Jacare' Souza set to rematch at UFC Fight Night 101". MMAjunkie. 2016-09-12. Retrieved 2017-12-05.
  27. ^ "UFC finally returning to Sydney". Retrieved 2017-12-05.
  28. ^ "Cage Fighting Championship (Australia) Fights, Fight Cards, Videos, Pictures, Events and more". Sherdog.
  29. ^ "Xtreme MMA (Australia) Fights, Fight Cards, Videos, Pictures, Events and more". Sherdog.
  30. ^ "TUF Smashes finals, Pearson vs. Sotiropoulos targeted for UFC on FX 6 on Dec. 14 in Australia". MMAmania.com. Retrieved 2017-12-05.
  31. ^ "Wimp 2 Warrior Invades North America". Wombat Sports. 2014-03-01. Retrieved 2017-12-05.
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notable participants was Sam McVea an African American heavyweight boxing champion who would participate in a highly publicised all in fight in Lismore Australia against Prof Stevenson in 1913 9 However the early hybrid didn t last and during most of the 20th century traditional martial arts schools and striking based gyms existed apart as with Amateur wrestling in Australia 10 Traditional martial arts in general are well attended and feature in the top ten organised sports for children for both males and females in Australia 11 In the 1990s the three grappling disciplines of BJJ amateur wrestling and Catch wrestling provided the base for the modern sport 12 Mixed Martial Arts in its recognized and regulated form came to Australia via the Ultimate Fighting Championship s emergence in 1993 but was predated by Vale tudo in Brasil and Shoot wrestling in Japan MMA gained an underground following through video and bootleg copies of UFC events in the mid 1990s The explosion of BJJ globally through Gracie BJJ schools was assisted by the success of Royce Gracie at UFC 1 4 but BJJ was first introduced into Australia by John Will in 1989 13 Initially dedicated Australian practitioners travelled overseas to gain their belts and returned to start schools Mixed Martial Arts training and gyms began to evolve The long history of boxing and the more recent variant of kickboxing Muay Thai in Australia provided a large injection of fighters with a striking base The sport of MMA has been described as the fastest growing sport in the twenty first century 14 Sanctioning edit States and territories of Australia there are different sanctioning bodies and rules Sanctioning bodies include Combat Sports Authority NSW 15 Professional Boxing and Combat Sports Board VC and Combat Sports Commission of Western Australia WA 16 Notable fighters 1990s to present editAlex Chambers UFC Alexander Volkanovski UFC Anthony Perosh UFC Arlene Blencowe Bellator Ashkan Mokhtarian UFC Bec Rawlings Bellator Callan Potter UFC Chris Haseman UFC Damien Brown UFC Dan Kelly UFC Elvis Sinosic UFC George Sotiropoulos UFC Jack Della Maddalena UFC Jake Matthews UFC Jessica Rose Clark UFC Jimmy Crute UFC Justin Tafa UFC Nadia Kassem UFC Mark Hunt UFC Megan Anderson UFC Peter Graham Bellator Robert Whittaker UFC Rob Wilkinson PFL Steve Erceg UFC Tai Tuivasa UFC Tyson Pedro UFCPromotions editUltimate Fighting Championship edit UFC 110 Nogueira vs Velasquez 2010 Sydney 17 UFC 127 Penn vs Fitch 2011 Sydney 18 UFC on FX Alves vs Kampmann 2012 Sydney 19 UFC on FX Sotiropoulos vs Pearson 2012 Gold Coast 20 UFC Fight Night Hunt vs Bigfoot 2013 Brisbane 21 UFC Fight Night Bisping vs Rockhold 2014 Sydney 22 UFC Fight Night Miocic vs Hunt 2015 Adelaide 23 UFC 193 Rousey vs Holm 2015 Melbourne 24 UFC Fight Night Hunt vs Mir 2016 Brisbane 25 UFC Fight Night Whittaker vs Brunson 2016 Melbourne 26 UFC Fight Night Werdum vs Tybura 2017 Sydney 27 UFC 221 Romero vs Rockhold 2018 Perth UFC Fight Night dos Santos vs Tuivasa 2018 Adelaide UFC 234 Adesanya vs Silva 2019 Melbourne UFC 243 Whittaker vs Adesanya 2019 Melbourne UFC 284 Makhachev vs Volkanovski 2023 Perth UFC 293 Adesanya vs Strickland 2023 Sydney UFC 305 2024 PerthLocal MMA Promotions edit Aftershock MMA Brisbane Queensland Professional and Amateur Fight Promotion Australian Fighting Championship Melbourne Victoria BRACE Carnage in the Cage CITC Mackay Queensland Australia Coastal Combat Sunshine Coast Queensland Eternal MMA Gold Coast Queensland Fightworld Cup Gold Coast Queensland HAMMA Fight Night Brisbane Queensland Hex Fight Series Melbourne VIC Minotaur Mixed Martial Arts Melbourne Fight Club Melbourne Nitro MMA Storm Damage Australian Capital Territory Superfight MMA Superfight Australia aka Mach1FightClub New South Wales Unarmed Combat Unleashed UCU Emerald Queensland Urban Fight Night Liverpool New South Wales Wollongong Wars WW Wollongong XFC Australian and New Zealand professional and amateur Xtreme Impact Fighting Championships XIFC Toowoomba Queensland Demolition Fight Series Sunshine VictoriaPast edit Cage Fighting Championship CFC 2007 2012 28 TUFFA MMA 2009 2011 Impact Fighting Championships 2010 Xtreme MMA XMMA 2009 2010 29 Amateur MMA Organizations edit Some may have one or two pro fights but their focus is on AMMY Amateur Cage Fighting Australia ACFA Gold Coast Queensland Australia International Mixed Martial Arts Federation of Australia 1 Reality television editThe Ultimate Fighter The Smashes 30 Wimp 2 Warrior 31 The Ultimate Fighter Nations Canada vs Australia 32 Gyms editSee also List of professional MMA training camps some mixed martial arts training camps and gyms 33 Gamebred Academy Brisbane Queensland Fightcross MMA Brisbane Queensland Absolute MMA Melbourne Victoria Australian Elite Team Australian Top Team Sydney New South Wales Bulldog MMA Parramatta Igor MMA Sydney Dominance MMA Melbourne Victoria ELEV8 MMA Melbourne Victoria Extreme MMA Melbourne Victoria Hammers Gym KMA Top Team Sydney New South Wales Integrated MMA Brisbane Queensland Kings Academy of Martial Arts Riddlers Gym Perth Western Australia Sinosic Perosh Martial Arts VT1 Mixed Martial Arts Academy Sydney New South Wales 99ers MMA Gym Kumiai Ryu Martial Arts Langes Mixed Martial Arts Sydney New South Wales Perth Kickboxing Academy Blue Mountains Martial Arts Centre Westside MMA Caroline Springs Victoria The MMA Clinic Perth Western Australia Scrappy MMA Perth Western AustraliaMedia outlets editFight News Australia Submission Radio From The StandsReferences edit a b IMMAFA Immafa org au Australian Sports Attendance Records Austadiums Austadiums com Mixed Martial Arts goes mainstream ninemsn launches MMA Kanvas Mi9 com au 2013 02 01 Retrieved 2014 02 11 Why Mixed Martial Arts has superseded Boxing in Australia The Roar 2011 03 02 Retrieved 2014 02 11 Cage fighting becoming the new blood sport ABC News Australian Broadcasting Corporation Abc net au Retrieved 2014 02 11 Robyn Preston 2013 02 20 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