In a previous article called “Boxing vs. MMA” I wrote that MMA is becoming more popular than boxing and one of those reasons is because MMA has even more strategy than boxing. MMA fighters don’t have to worry about just different types of boxers but different types of fighting styles altogether. One of the styles used in MMA is Muay Thai.
Former heavyweight champ Ingemar Johannson died in a Swedish nursing home in January 2009 at the age of 76. He’d lived in the nursing home in his hometown of Kungsbacka since the mid’90’s when he was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s and dementia. No official cause of death was given, but Johannson had suffered a serious bout with pneumonia just prior to his death.
While mixed martial arts fighting has only recently become popular in the United States, contests between fighters of different martial arts disciplines have taken place in Japan for many years. They weren’t called “mixed martial arts” until recently, but they were definitely an embryonic form of the now booming sport. Many of the most famous events of this type took place in Japan during the’70’s involving pro wrestling legend Antonio Inoki.