Who is a business executive and cofounder of the sport of Mixed Martial Arts (MMA)?
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Frederico Lapenda Frederico Lapenda is an award-winning movie producer and visionary fight promoter who is one of the founders of the sport of Mixed Martial Arts (MMA). Lapenda is widely credited, along with Ultimate Fighting Championship UFC[1] creator Art Davie, as being responsible for creating the worldwide MMA movement. Lapenda has produced twenty films, more than 100 MMA events, two video games, ten music concerts, and 8 documentaries, one which was eligible for an Oscar nomination.
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Art Davie Art Davie is a business executive and entrepreneur formerly active in Southern California advertising circles. In 1993, he created and co-produced the tournament which became the televised Ultimate Fighting Championship. In 1998, Davie, as vice-president of K-1 USA, brought the successful K-1 kickboxing franchise from Japan to Las Vegas and North American pay-per-view television. In 2003, Davie was an executive producer with Mandalay Sports Entertainment. In 2006, he became vice-president of television at Paradigm Entertainment Group. In 2014, Ascend Books published Davie's book, "Is This Legal?: The Inside Story of the First UFC from the Man Who Created It". Sean Wheelock assisted in the book's research and writing. In November 2014, Davie was inducted into the Legends of MMA Hall of Fame, alongside Big John McCarthy, Pat Miletich, Fedor Emelianenko, and Rickson Gracie.
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Alaska Fighting Championship Alaska Fighting Championship, also known as AFC, is an American professional mixed martial arts (MMA) promotion based in the United States.
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Jess McMahon Roderick James "Jess" McMahon Sr. (May 26, 1882 – November 22, 1954) was an American professional wrestling and professional boxing promoter, and the patriarch of the McMahon family. He founded the Capitol Wrestling Corporation with Toots Mondt in 1952. McMahon's son, Vince Sr., later took over and founded the World Wide Wrestling Federation (WWWF) (today known as WWE).
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Chris Lozano Chris Lozano (born September 14, 1982) is an American professional mixed martial arts (MMA) fighter. He currently fights for Bellator Fighting Championships and North American Allied Fight Series (NAAFS).
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Rich Franklin Richard Jay "Rich" Franklin II (born October 5, 1974) is an American retired mixed martial artist who competed in Ultimate Fighting Championship. He is a former UFC Middleweight Champion. As of June 2014, Franklin was announced as a Vice President of Asian Mixed Martial Arts company ONE Championship.
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Herb Dean Herb Dean (born September 30, 1970) is an American mixed martial arts referee and former fighter.
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Fight Life Fight Life is a feature-length documentary on the sport of mixed martial arts. The film is directed by independent filmmaker James Z. Feng and produced by RiLL Films. The film focuses on the lives of professional mixed martial arts fighters outside the cage, primarily profiling Jake Shields, and Lyle Beerbohm. The film unveils the sport of Mixed martial arts and what it takes to be a modern-day professional fighter. Many notables MMA stars and experts are featured in this film, including: Nick Diaz, Gilbert Melendez, Chuck Liddell, Frank Shamrock, Miesha Tate, John McCarthy, Julianna Pena, Michael Chiesa, Herschel Walker, Sam Sheridan, Mark Coleman, Tyron Woodley, Ryan Schultz, Matt Lindland, Mike Swick, and Cody McKenzie. In 2013, "Fight Life" went on to win the Best Documentary Award at the United Film Festival.
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2014 in UFC The year 2014 is the 22nd year in the history of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), a mixed martial arts promotion based in the United States.
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Sherman Pendergarst Sherman Maurice Pendergarst (February 1, 1967 – July 20, 2012) was an American professional mixed martial arts fighter. He competed in the UFC, Bellator, Adrenaline MMA, King of the Cage and YAMMA Pit Fighting.
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Jack Ma Ma Yun (, ; born September 10, 1964), known professionally as Jack Ma, is a Chinese business magnate who is the founder and executive chairman of Alibaba Group, a family of Internet-based businesses.
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Joe Lacob Joseph Steven Lacob (born January 10, 1956) is an American business executive who is currently a partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and the majority owner of the Golden State Warriors of the National Basketball Association (NBA).
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The Alliance (MMA) The Alliance MMA Gym is a mixed martial arts training facility located in Chula Vista, California and is home to a number of professional mixed martial artists who have found success in organizations such as the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), World Extreme Cagefighting (WEC), Strikeforce and Bellator. The Alliance MMA Gym is one of the top professional MMA training camps.
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Is This Legal? Is This Legal?: The Inside Story of The First UFC from the Man Who Created It is a 2014 non-fiction book which details the backstory of the creation of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC). It is co-authored by Art Davie, co-founder of the UFC, and Sean Wheelock.
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1999 in UFC The year 1999 is the 7th year in the history of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), a mixed martial arts promotion based in the United States. In 1999 the UFC held 6 events beginning with, "UFC 18: The Road to the Heavyweight Title".
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Taylor Barada Taylor A. Barada (born August 14, 1972) is an American businessman and former soccer player who is currently the head of mergers and acquisitions at Adobe.
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List of Pancrase champions This is a list of Pancrase champions at each weight class. Pancrase is a Japan-based mixed martial arts (MMA) promoting and sanctioning organization founded in 1993. The champions of Pancrase are referred to by the title of "King of Pancrase".
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Scott Butera Scott C. Butera is an American businessman, prominent entertainment and hospitality executive who is best known for being the C.E.O. at various casinos in the eastern United States. He is currently the commissioner of the Arena Football League (AFL).
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George Foreman III George Edward "Monk" Foreman III (born January 23, 1983) is an entrepreneur, professional boxer, trainer/coach, founder of EverybodyFights and son of the legendary businessman and former two-time heavyweight champion George Foreman.
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Santino Marella Anthony Carelli (born March 14, 1974) is a Canadian sports analyst, trainer, entrepreneur, actor, and retired professional wrestler and mixed martial artist, who currently works for the Canadian sports TV network Sportsnet. He is best known for his 11-year tenure in WWE, most notably under the ring name Santino Marella. He is the founder of Canadian martial arts and professional wrestling training facility Battle Arts Academy.
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International Fight League The International Fight League was an American mixed martial arts (MMA) promotion billed as the world's first MMA league. It was founded on January 7, 2006 and closed on July 31, 2008. Instead of the established norm for MMA events, where matchups are strictly one-on-one affairs, each IFL card was a showdown between two camps of at least three fighters, each fighter fighting one match against another in the opposing camps.
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Kensuke Sasaki Kensuke Sasaki (佐々木 健介 , Sasaki Kensuke , born August 4, 1966) is a Japanese retired professional wrestler, mixed martial artist, and founder of the now-defunct wrestling promotion Diamond Ring.