Courtesy: Phil Thompson
Some fans of mixed martial arts try their hand at jiu-jitsu or judo or boxing. Phil Thompson, on the other hand, took his passion for MMA a step further.
The Chicago-based fightsports lover is a talented artist and, in his free time, decided to painstakingly create an illustrated style guide of MMA. The guide, which is a spectacular full-color chart, depicts the sport’s origins, from its roots in the West and East, from striking to wrestling. Naturally, everything coalesces in the middle as mixed martial arts with virtually every prominent form of fighting represented in great detail.