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The number one question on the minds of millions of people are "What are the 12 Rounds?" They are usually introduced to them through movies or events with participants, in particular by bodybuilding competitions. The idea is that it's a contest where athletes take part in twelve rounds of wrestling, MMA, boxing or martial arts which in turn end up in a fight to be the last man standing with no points awarded for submission. So what do you really know about this brutal event? Let's get started with some history on how these competitions came to be and how it became big. After all, "they" say never judge a book by its cover. The first event of this kind, the "12 round full contact karate contest" was held back in 1985. The rules were extremely simple, the fight went twelve rounds and points were awarded for submission or knockout. At that time there was no referees or judges involved. What decided the contest was a fighting style which would have been impossible to contradict by definition. If a contestant was knocked out or submitted he would lose immediately, if he won he would go to the next round. As simple as it sounds it turned out to be highly entertaining for both participants and audiences alike, so once one organization figured out how successful these events were they decided to start hosting their own versions of 12 round contests under different names but with similar rules. It wouldn't be until nearly fifteen years after the tournament was launched that they would start to use MMA/boxing name for the event in order to avoid confusion. The most prominent organization in these events is "The World Full Contact Association" or WFCA, they started hosting their tournament under the name "12 Rounds of Fighting" in 1992 with their tournament being an eight man one with only one knockout each fight. After multiple events this would turn into a ten man one tournament where 5 would be knocked out leaving three remaining who would have fights with the winner being declared the winner of the event. This tournament was taken by ESPN and hosted by Don King Productions, making it perhaps one of their most infamous programs of all times. The card was one of the most stacked cards to date with names like "Rudy Bears" and "Tony Norris" as their main attraction. Both men were known as two of the most fearsome strikers in the sport at the time and this would be a fight where all their skills would be put to use. What happened next is one of those moments you could only dream about: the two fighters managed to go full throttle at each other and knock each other out simultaneously, leaving us with a draw and two unconscious men lying on the mat. With more than four million dollars on the line, it is no surprise that it was aired live on pay per view for an astonishing price of $24.95 at that time. When the event was later broadcast on ABC under the name "12 Rounds of Hulk" it would be renamed to "World's Most Feared Fight" and it's future editions would be called "Fight of the Year 2002" or "Fight of The Decade". This also marked Don King's first foray into MMA after getting tired of being branded as a stereotype. Since then multiple events have been presented every year with the most recent being in 2012 where they featured names like Gary Goodridge, Mark Coleman, Bas Rutten, Bas Rutten again, Kazushi Sakuraba and Jens Pulver. The last event was hosted by ESPN with Kevin Iole as their host. cfa1e77820
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