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Total MMA seeks to provide a definitive history of the sport, and it tackles just about every major figure and event in the sport's history. From Japan to Brazil to the United States, Snowden explains how MMA evolved and provides quotes from the fighters, promoters and trainers who shaped the sport.
What readers get out of the book will depend on what they bring in. Someone who knows little about the sport by the end will understand it quite well. A hardcore fan who has followed the sport for years is likely to learn from some sections and find others monotonous. But the ideal audience for the book is made up of the fans who discovered the sport with The Ultimate Fighter. In one read, those fans can get caught up to speed on just about every major development that paved the way for what they watch today.
MMA's rapid evolution has not lent itself well to documentation. Things change too fast, with some seeming trends proving illusory and other legitimate trends going overlooked. Total MMA does an excellent job of capturing the true keys to MMA's evolution. MMA will continue to evolve, but this book explains well why the scene looks as it does at the end of 2008. A-
