From its savage beginnings, Cage fighting has come a long way. Since 1993, the mongrel conglomeration of fighting arts—known as Mixed Martial Arts (MMA)—has undergone something of an image refit. It’s a reinvention largely down to the efforts of the sport’s main organisation, the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC)—a group that wrote the rulebook for the sport we see today. Twenty-four years ago, when it started, the sport was a convenient whipping boy for politicians and lawmakers of all stripes looking …