Category: Sports
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The Most Famous Masked Luchadores in Mexican Wrestling
Lucha Libre or ‘free fighting’ is a cultural spectacle of professional wrestling in Mexico. This sport is popular not only for the high-flying maneuvers of the competing wrestlers, but also for the mystique of their personas. Masks is an important part of Lucha Libre’s tradition. They are symbolic of the figure that the wrestler is…
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Bull Wrestling – 2 Bulls Fighting Each Other
Bull wrestling, a traditional sports in 14 countries, where 2 bulls fighting each other, clashing head and horns in a battle of strength. Unlike the bullfighting in Spain, where the matador has to deliver the killing thrust to the bull, the Arabic version is a bloodless bull to bull fight. Similar to a sumo wrestler,…
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Beginners Guide to Rock Climbing
Rock climbing is among the most physically challenging sports, crawling large walls in search of foot and hand holes to grip to keep yourself from slipping or falling. Climbers have to build and sustain strength, stamina and flexibility to reach the summit or finish the route. As climbing became a recreational activity, many mountaineers developed…
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14 Biggest Pay-Per-View Events in Sports History
The numbers of pay-per-view buys, specially in boxing, UFC and WWE, tend to rise and fall depending on a variety of factors: the main event, undercard, promotion and the financial state before the live event. Mayweather vs Pacquiao’s pay per view record is not the only fight that generate huge PPV buys and revenue but…
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20 Closest Finishes in NASCAR Sprint Cup Series History
NASCAR racing is a thrilling sports that is built on speed, time and records. Since NASCAR upgraded to electronic timing and scoring, from analog clocks, in 1993, its Sprint Cup Series has witness many photo finishes. In a sporting race, a photo finish happen when two or more leading drivers cross the finish line so…
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The Amazing Evolution of a Modern Rugby Player
Like other elite-level sport, sports science is changing the game of Rugby. While early rugby players used to have a full-time work and compete on weekends competition, the sport has now evolve into a full-time commitment for athletes. Today’s rugby players, including the props, flanker, winger and centre positions, have got taller, larger and thus…
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Learn to Play Cricket
Watching the sport of cricket can be confusing if you do not understand the rules of the game. Cricket is an old bat and ball sport that is played between opposing teams made up of 11 players. The objective of the game is to score more runs than your rival. Each team have an opportunity…
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Rio 2016 Summer Olympics in Numbers
Four years since London 2012, Rio de Janeiro of Brazil is the hosting city of the 2016 Olympic Games. Over 10,000 sports athletes from 206 nations will be competing for the gold medals of the 31st Olympiad. Since the Summer Games officially begun, here are some exciting facts and numbers about the very first Olympics…
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Guide to the 2016 Tour de France
Tour de France, the greatest bicycle race in the world, where elite racing cyclists compete in the grueling test of human endurance. For nearly 3 weeks, the riders rode over dirt roads of flatlands and hills of France. Started as a simple marketing gimmick for a financially struggling newspaper. 116 years later, the historical tour…
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History of the UFC
The Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) is the undisputed world champion when it comes to mixed martial arts promotion, producing more than 40 live events annually worldwide. MMA embodies disciplines from different martial arts and Olympic combat sports, like boxing, kick-boxing, karate, judo, jiu-jitsu, wrestling and muay thai. During the infancy of UFC, the brutality of…