For the last two weeks, the biggest sporting event in the world, the FIFA World Cup, has been taking place to determine which nation gets bragging rights for the next four years. It’s as much cultural experience as sporting one, with some nations reveling purely for participating and scoring a singular goal in a 6-1 shellacking. It makes sense. After all, football is the most popular sport in the world.
But what if it wasn’t?
Though football is the most popular sport in the world, combat, in one form or another, is ubiquitous, and, not that long ago, team-based MMA was a thing.