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‘Tis that time of year again, folks. While most Americans are sitting around stuffing their faces with turkey, dressing and mashed potatoes and mellowing out to a tryptophan overdose, the staff at Sherdog.com has compiled its All-Turkey Team for 2022. In the past, mixed martial arts has provided us with quite a few questionable characters, and this year has been no exception. The latest group of offenders—or members—delivered what might have been the most eclectic rap sheet yet. ***
From its inception in the early 1990s with Shooto, Pancrase and the Ultimate Fighting Championship, and going back even further to the style-versus-style gym wars of Brazilian no-holds-barred fighting, the sport we now call mixed martial arts has to some extent been about demonstrating what works, or does not work, in a “real” fight.