hto63
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sure, they share some roots in more recent history. But they share much more important roots way further in the past.Modern MMA did develop from Japanese shoot wrestling organizations such as Pancrase. I understand the burning hatred many of you have for fake rasslin but unfortunately it does in fact share roots with MMA.
All the techniques used in MMA have been developed in their respective martial art over hundreds of years.
These are real techniques, not stunts rehearsed like in fake wrestling.
Culturally, sure, MMA had to be resurrected and only survived on a freakshow level for a long time. But as I said, whatever common roots they share nothing of importance connects them today and nothing more profound than the century old intrigue of watching 2 men fight each other.
one is real, one is not. It does not get more different than that. Boxing and kickboxing are much closer to being the same thing than boxing and a movie about boxing is.