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Inside that steel cage with an area of about fifty square meters everything, or almost, is allowed. Even within a framework of rules and in the name of sportsmanship and a certain competitive chivalry, fighters (fighters, that’s what they call each other) They are licensed to do damage: punches, kicks, wrestling grabs. Variable, the number of violent rounds: which are a maximum of five, of three minutes each. You fight in a strange and sci-fi ring: the cage —In English— all wire mesh and padding. The brothers Marco and Gabriele Bianchi arrested in Colleferro (along with Marco Pincarelli and Francesco Belleggia) for the murder of Willy Duarte, 21, were MMA practitioners (acronym for the acronym in English mixed martial arts), or mixed martial arts. An increasingly fashionable and increasingly practiced fighting technique, interchangeably by men and women, in gyms around the world, including Italians. From Milan to Rome, from Veneto to Sicily, the membership increases, increasingly practical than standard words clinging (the fight on the ground and the submission of the opponent) e surprising (repeated blows performed with martial arts techniques).
Irish icon Conor McGregor
The most famous of the fighters Definitely the Irishman Conor McGregor, much commented on the tattooed Irish champion – arrested several times per fight – who many times announces his retirement from the fighting but to reconsider, attracted by millionaire bags, such as the 100 million dollars he took in 2018 when he challenged – losing in the 10th round in a match with the canonical rules of boxing – Floyd Mayweather, boxing legend in the middleweight category who made $ 200 million from that fight.
I Italiani fighters
The fact is that even in Italy this world of amateurs has proportions that are becoming gigantic – says an insider who organizes meetings – also developing on social networks with videos, sites and a glossary with unpublished words, which mix English, Brazilian, Russian and oriental languages. , the places where MMA was born. The source contacted by Corriere della Sera definitely distances himself from Colleferro’s terrible crime: MMA is anything but … After each fight the opponents come down from the cage shaking hands, as if they were old friends. As for racism in the gym … it just doesn’t exist.
Around this martial art, the business grows exponentially from all points of view and fighters they are stars disputed as and more than fighters. There is no shortage of Italians. The promise was made by Italian Carlo Pedersoli, 24 years old, grandson of art: in the sense that his grandfather was Bud Spencer, not only a movie star but also blue, as a young man, in swimming. Very popular are the Lazio Alessio Sakara and Marvin Vettori from Trentino, also in high demand in the United States. Where the fights are events very followed by pay television that are beginning to prefer, in terms of audience, MMA to wrestling.
The clandestine struggle
But next to the fights regulated by associations and followed by the media is the darker side – and very far from the rules of MMA – about which little is known, with scenarios and atmospheres such as that of a fight club. A world dominated by underground gambling. Full of doping, I fighters They are boxers in disarmament, experts in martial arts, fighter no luck, but mostly fighters of the thousand legal versions of free fight who go out onto the field in these matches without a referee and without rules of the outskirts of Palermo to the abandoned warehouses of the Neapolitan area, from the pine forest of Ostia to the interior of Milan. Man versus man, regardless of weight categories or fighting technique, the one who stands wins or forces the other to surrender. The salaries are certainly not mind-boggling: the loser earns from 1,000 to 1,500 euros, depending on the resume behind him, and the bag of those who win rarely exceeds 2,000.
September 7, 2020 (change September 7, 2020 | 10:42)
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