As soon as we, Russians, learn how to unite our Martial Arts and share our experience we will present much more fighters who will definitely succeed just like other Russian fighters in all of the other fighting sports! MMA will not be an exception! Long Live Russia! 2009-2020 ©. We had a huge experience in other Martial Arts and almost none in MMA. Their presence makes a lot of other fighters be frightened… Not quantity but quality – that is our motto. I will emphasize it again – it is not a problem.
Kharitonov and others) participate in those events but did not get on the top yet. Some other great Russian fighters (like A. It would be enough to look at the most popular versions of MMA tournaments: the Japanese PRIDE and the American UFC: both are dominated by Slavs from former USSR countries – Russian Fjodor Emelianenko and Belorussian Andrei Arlovski. Actually, I do not think that it is a problem. We have a great stand-up fighters, great wrestlers, grapplers but we do not have well-rounded MMA fighters. Martial arts separately were always developed in Russia and USSR but unfortunately they never united like they did abroad. There are hundreds examples: in boxing: Klitchko brothers, Kostya Tzyu in wrestling – Alexander Karelin in MMA – Fjodor Emelianenko and this list may be continued for a long time. But now, thanks to them, it eventually gains more and more popularity.Īt this point I have to say that fighting sports and martial arts in general were and are highly developed and ranked all over the ex-USSR countries. If not them – MMA would still have been in the underground. Nevertheless, we have to pay a tribute to these criminals for developing this sport in our countries. Who needs such a challenges in his life? Not many I guess. It refers to fighters as well, once you got into this stuff you will never get out. People know it and that’s another reason they try to avoid it. I should say that mostly all of the present MMA tournaments that are held today in Russia are usually organized by criminals or at least with their useful cooperation. They’ve created a highly profitable monopoly business. They might have lost the best part of entertainment – Hardcore beatings, but evolved it to a much more better thing: profit. Nowadays they just switched the bloody and illegal No Rules Fighting of the Soviet period into legal and very profitable Mixed Martial Arts tournaments in the Modern Democratic Russia. One may also assume that the government improved, who knows, but even though criminals never lost their interest in MMA (NRF). Maybe people got smarter, now they do not get disabled in the ring. Eventually, the bloody and brutal tournaments disappeared. As usual those events were organized by criminals. Fighters used to fight without any protection and sometimes even to death. Not because people were not interested but mostly because of brutality and lack of civilized rules (what was civilized in USSR anyway?). Apart from some traditional village-on-village fighting or some other ancient fighting festivals that are held mostly in villages and which may look like western MMA but in a more raw version, there were a real NO RULES FIGHTING in Soviet period (in the middle 80’s to be more particular), which as you might guess were illegal and therefore were organized in deep underground. However I must say that MMA always existed in USSR and Russia. People think that if I practice any martial art that means that I am most probably a criminal, that is the usual logic people follow. That is the mentality, that is what our brilliant system did to us. When they hear the explanation: No Rules Fighting, they just run away. They may ask what it consists in since this phrase is not frequently used. So when people hear a phrase “Mixed Martial Arts” automatically they would associate Martial Arts to criminality. Martial Arts were always linked with outlaws and criminals in the early post USSR period and this tradition is still kept even today.
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