Sports - Cage Fighting in the USA

Its brutal, its violent, and yet more and more people are watching the sport that was once banned from television for being too bloody. Now cage fights are prime-time TV events, and mixed martial arts, MMA, is a billion dollar industry, but far from the spotlight of the UFC everyday Americans are stepping onto the mat. What youre going to see over the next several years is guys who were to play baseball, basketball, football will becoming involved in mixed martial arts instead. We meet an all American guy and a female fighter with big expectations, in places youd expect and in places you wouldnt, including church where cage fighting and the Bible go hand in hand. For some MMA offers a chance at the dream. For others those dreams have been crushed. Savant Young is a professional mixed martial arts fighter, a 13 year veteran of the sport. If you type in his name on YouTube it only takes 15 seconds to see how he earned the fighting name Black Superman, but now Savant now spends more time teaching other fighters than he does knocking them out. Savant is the co-owner of Fight Academy, a gym in Pasadena, California that specializes in mixed martial arts, or MMA. Gyms like Fight Academy are springing up all over the country, and in 2010 over 2.5 million Americans trained or fought in MMA. Many trained to simply stay in shape, but everyone wants to fight. When guys walk in fresh off the street saying they