Total Mma: Inside Ultimate Fighting

Description

Since the beginning of time men have engaged in hand-to-hand combat. Over time, the fighting arts were watered down and replaced by a variety of limited ones, like karate, boxing and wrestling. In the modern age, this has created one important question: who is the toughest? Could a boxer beat a kung fu artist? Could a wrestler beat a karate practitioner? Thus the Ultimate Fighting Championship was born. This is the definitive history of the definitive fighting tournament.

Jonathan Snowden is a former lawyer, radio DJ, and television producer. He has worked for the U.S. Army and the White House Communications Agency, is trained in Brazilian jiu-jitsu and the Army Combatives Program, and currently works for the Department of Defense. He lives in Vienna, Virginia.

""A go-to resource for the figures big and small in the history of MMA . . . It is hard to imagine any book in the future matching the detail and definition provided here . . . make it the cornerstone of your MMA library." --mmapayout.com" "I just tore through . . . Jonathan Snowden's excellent history of MMA. . . . If you're looking for a one volume history of Mixed Martial Arts, it would be hard to do better than this." --"Bloody Elbow" "A definitive history of the sport, and it tackles just about every major figure and event in the sport's history." --CBSSports.com "I have been thoroughly impressed with the scholarship. Snowden really got the history of MMA right. Highly recommended." --"Scientific Wrestling" "I highly recommend it for yourself or for the MMA fan in your life." --"Inside Fights" "If the history of MMA was taught as a college course, "Total MMA" would be the official textbook used for the class." --"Five Ounces of Pain" "Snowden doesn't go overboard with criticism but when he takes a stand his writing resonates with firmly held conviction, not just press release spin. Overall this is possibly the best written history of the UFC, arguably replacing "Brawl" and "No Holds Barred," This book together with "Title Shot" would bring most fans up to speed on the current state of MMA." --"ADCC News" "The best book on the real history of MMA that I've seen. . . . This book really is so great I couldn't put it down . . . it's a thorough history dating back to the turn of the 20th century, covering the heydays in Brazil, Japan, and major UFC opposition groups over the past 15 years in North America." --"Wrestling Observer" "The standard against which any and all future such works will be measured. The bar has been set high." --OK Judo Player "[Total MMA] is amazingly detailed with hundreds of footnotes as Snowden focuses on the expansion of MMA from its early beginnings to late 2008. Snowden obviously loves the business but doesn't shy away from exposing its darker sides and presenting both sides of arguments." --411Mania.com "By far the most definitive book on mixed martial arts I've ever read . . . I can't recommend this book more highly." --"The Angry Marks"