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Posted 2/18/2010 @ 5:06:41 pm by Lawrence Leary
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Various types of fighting styles take place in different kinds of rings or mats, for example, boxing is in a square and wrestling is in a circle. UFC fights take place within an octagon, which is an eight-sided mat and cage. Octagon as you probably have guessed from its name, is an eight-sided octagonal mat and cage. Two gates lead into the octagon fighting ring, and they're secured shut at the beginning of each round. The UFC bordered their octagon fights with fencing so that fighters couldn't fall or get thrown out of the ring. Competitors are not allowed to go outside the octagon during a bout, nor are they allowed to try and throw their opponents over the side of the cage. Octagon fighting was designed to avoid giving any one martial arts discipline an advantage. Because the angles in an octagon are wider than those for each corner of a boxing ring, there is little chance for a fighter to get stuck in a corner with no way out. The ring was not a traditional ring but shaped like an octagon which gave it a different look than traditional boxing. Real street fights were now being shown on television and around the world soon began to train to get their shot at their own octagon fights. Octagon fighting is becoming one of the most popular fighting events of our time.
