U F C Created by Art Davie and Rorion Gracie in 1993 the club QUEEN, to find the best fighter in the world, all weights and all styles. The basics of the UFC just tournaments Brazilian Vale Tudo. Often seen as violent and brutal, with few rules as possible, the UFC allows fighters from different styles to meet and determine the "best" martial art. The first UFC fight resembled circus, a cage instead of a ring, opponents and trample send elbows in the neck, face bloody and terrible KO: all the ingredients are there for the media interested and Unleashed. Critics are many politicians get involved and put pressure on the organizers. Gradually, under duress, the UFC needs to change more rules to protect the fighters, the introduction of time limits and weight classes, passing in front commissions sports doping test, the march towards a sport and not a bloody spectacle has begun. With this change and this change of image, perhaps at the expense of the purity of the original competition, the financial windfall can return, including the highly profitable televised on pay-per-view. The UFC to abbord was managed by SEG (Semaphore Entertainment Group), an American company specializing in sports broadcasts on pay-per-view. In January 2001, the UFC was purchased for $ 2 million by Zuffa ("fight" or "fighting without rules" in Italian), a company belonging to the casino managers Frank III and Lorenzo Ferttita Ferttita and directed by Dana White. Zuffa is currently based in Las Vegas, Nevada. With a lucrative contract with Fox Sports Net and now Spike TV and the very recent legalization of MMA in California (2006) and across Europe (Italy, Spain, Switzerland, Belgium, Poland, Luxembourg), the UFC is currently the rise and booming media. Not content to broadcast their events on pay-per-view in the United States, Brazil, Australia, Canada, Italy, New Zeland, the UFC can also be viewed on ESPN in the United Kingdom and Ireland on RTL9 in France as well as in 150 countries around the world and in 22 different languages. The first event held outside the United States is the UFC or UFC JAPAN 05.15 21 December 1997. Today, the UFC holds events around the world (U.S., UK, Canada, Japan, Brazil, Sweden, Germany, Ireland, Australia and China). Apart from its rules, the UFC has another carctéristique which distinguishes it from other organizations MMA. It is his cage. An octagon approximately 9.50 m diagonal, raised to 1.20 m above the ground. It is fenced by pillars covered with protective plastic and interconnected by a grating. Closing this measure 1.76m high. The term "Octagon" is a trademarked term, as its dimensions. Competing organizations do not have the right to use it. The fighters also have rules to follow at their outfits. These rules are essentially the same in all MMA organizations. They must wear special gloves mitten-shaped, padded suffisamant to avoid fractures of the hand but the fingers open to allow the phases Grappling. There is an obligation to wear a shell to protect the parties, and a mouth guard. The shoes are prohibited. The shorts can be of different types, similar to those used in all combat sports (but it must be short). They should not come with an object in the octagon and must have fingernails. One checks that these conditions are met just before entering the cage. He also coated the face of fighting with vaseline. UFC-154 WEB SITE FIGHT CARD