Ever wondered how the toughest UFC fighters would stack up against the military?
Five UFC fighters — Gabriel Gonzaga, Marcus Davis, Rashad Evans, Forrest Griffin, Marine veteran Brian Stann, and UFC President Dana White — made the trek to Quantico, Virginia’s Marine Corps Martial Arts Center of Excellence, better known as MACE.
These elite cage fighters learned that the physical and mental demands required of elite war fighters are only met by those dedicated enough to become part of the Few and the Proud.
The Marine Corps Martial Arts Program is a combat system developed by the United States Marine Corps to combine existing and new hand-to-hand and close quarters combat techniques with morale and team-building functions and instruction in the Warrior Ethos.
The program, which began in 2001, trains Marines (and U.S. Navy personnel attached to Marine units) in unarmed combat, edged weapons, weapons of opportunity, and rifle and bayonet techniques.
The Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) is a mixed martial arts (MMA) promotion, founded in 1993 by Art Davie and Rorion Gracie.
The organization was purchased from its parent company SEG in 2001 by Zuffa LLC, a promotional company owned by Las Vegas casino magnates, Lorenzo and Frank Fertitta and managed by Dana White (current president of operations).
It takes a whole lot of hard work and dedication to become a UFC fighter. Most fighters fight professionally in smaller organizations for years and have extensive training in multiple disciplines before the UFC will even consider allowing them in the cage. These fighters are hand picked from the best of the best and the few chosen ones make it to the pinnacle of MMA fighting – The Octagon™.
If you want to become a UFC fighter – Ask yourself how bad you want to do it. MMA is a VERY tough sport, and it takes a lot of time, energy, and hard work for it to even be rewarding.
If you don’t love learning it and training, or aren’t winning a lot of money, and aren’t willing to have injuries, setbacks, and difficult moments, you probably should reconsider doing it.
The process to get there is very, very many years in length, unless you’re Brock Lesnar. The key to getting in is to put together a streak of wins against good opponents. If you have 2 or 3 wins against people who have good records, that’s probably not going to do it.
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If you have, say, 12 fights, in a row; all wins against opponents who are around 50/50 or less than 50/50 fighters, that’s not going to do it.
So, in order to get into the UFC, you’re going to have to put together a string of, I would say at a minimum, 5 or 6 wins against good opponents.
