Shoot Fighting

Power Chords

Just watched a Bart Vale clip, is there a difference between what is considered MMA today and this type of fighting?
Apart from the no head butting I saw in one or two of his clips, figured this was maybe just an earlier version before the introduction of later rules.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9Lp7TQDVMI&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ymw4RPfqK08&NR=1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVkJokwF4PM&feature=related

muckwarrior

Shoot fighting was basically just MMA but Bart Vale copyrighted the name. The pre UFC stuff like the clip with ken shamrock were mainly worked fights AFAIK. The second vid you link to is modern MMA, Pride ,UFC etc.

Power Chords

Thought shoot fighting was something Vale got into, not started? Suppose starting and copyrighting are two different things though.
Yeah, the other links just came under the same links/heading as Shoot. Cheers.

Fozzy

The clip with him facing Ken Shamrock is from the UWF. It was a pro wrestling promotion that used a more realistic style, but it was still worked. It says he won a championship, that was the Pro Wrestling Fujiwara Gumi title

There's a very good two part article here: http://www.sportsline.com/mmaboxing/story/10443463 It explains the origins of MMA and how it evolved from pro wrestling

Power Chords

Cheers Fozzy, interesting read.