Mixed Martial Arts, or MMA as it is often referred to, has taken the UK by storm over the last couple of years. MMA has been popular in America for a long time but has only begun to make its name in the UK more recently. MMA can be described as a full contact sport that allows the contenders to use a wide variety of fighting techniques not allowed in many other forms of martial arts.

The popularity of MMA in the UK, which now rivals Boxing and Professional Wrestling when it comes to pay per view figures, has lead to the increase in demand for MMA fightwear, something which was only available in America originally, is slowly becoming a leading sportswear range.

MMA fightwear, although fighters are only allowed to wear MMA shorts and light weight MMA gloves, includes MMA T Shirts, MMA Hoodies, MMA Accessories, Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Gi’s and Gorilla Grips to name but a few. Many professional fighters chose to wear a variety of MMA fightwear in the build up to their fight, such as the weigh in and associated press conferences, and also when they enter the cage before the fight takes place.

As with all ranges of sportswear there are a wide variety of brands which specialise in MMA fightwear. Brands such as TapouT, Hayabusa, Koral and Evolution, to name a few are well respected in the MMA fightwear industry. As with other well established sports, professional fighters are often sponsored by certain brands, especially TapouT, so the fighters only wear MMA fightwear given to them by that brand.

TapouT is by far the industry leader when it comes to MMA fightwear. TapouT was found in 1997 by Charles Lewis Jr. (also known as "Mask") and Dan Caldwell (also known as "Punkass") and since then it has gone from strength to strength to become the most sought after MMA fightwear brand.

Another name in the MMA fightwear world is Hayabusa Fightwear which has recently been introduced in the UK, most notably on our website, and is slowly establishing itself against the other big player in MMA fightwear. Hayabusa MMA gloves are becoming one of the most sought after MMA gloves you can buy and this popularity has lead to Hayabusa becoming the official supplier to the Hardcore Championship Fighting.

Koral Co Fightwear not only provides MMA fightwear but also provides fightwear for the combat world. The Koral Kimono and the Koral Gi has got to be one of their most popular lines of MMA fightwear. Even though the Kimonos or Gi’s aren’t worn during official competitions such as the UFC, they are an still extremely popular piece of MMA fightwear as they are worn for Brazilian Jiu Jitsu competitions which still plays a massive part in MMA.