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Ultimate Fighting: the brains and brawn of mixed martial arts

Okay, so I am definitely not the target audience for this book, but I know I have several boys who will think it’s great, and even as a non-interested reader, I can appreciate that it was well-organized, and offers a broad look at its sport.  It begins by describing the history of how Mixed Martial Arts got started (a chapter I even found interesting), and then goes on to describe the moves, famous participants, and famous fights, before concluding with speculation about the future of the sport.  I liked that it included information about women fighters and was honest about the dangers inherent in the sport, but I worry that it’s likely to become fairly quickly dated, as more famous people/matches eclipse the famous people/matches of the past — but then, that’s a danger with all books of this sort.