Along with trying to establish mixed martial arts in American sports culture, MMA promoters like the UFC, Strikeforce and Bellator are competing against the excepted assumptions of the sport in today’s mainstream media, including news outlets, uneducated fans, ill-advised combat followers and more.
With obvious aspects of MMA weighing on the first impressions of ordinary sports fans, such as rules, how fighters train and how barbaric it really is, the potential for growth heading into the future becomes somewhat limited.
However, people need to understand that MMA is only getting stronger, so by subjecting yourself to the truths about the sport and companies like the UFC, you’re only giving in to the inevitable.
With that said, here are the top-10 things that mainstream media misunderstands about the sport of MMA and the UFC included.