Right. What about in Canada? Is MMA big?

没错。那加拿大？格斗受欢迎吗？

Dad, you didn't buy MMA. You bought " Mamma Mia."

爸，你没买格斗赛。你买的是《妈妈咪呀》。

But across the Hudson River professional mixed martial arts (MMA) is illegal.

但是跨过哈德逊河，职业格斗（MMA）是非法的。

Must be taking it to the next level by hopping in an MMA ring.

在格斗台上肯定是更上一层楼了。

Wow. I would love to go watch MMA tournaments one day.

哇哦。我想看格斗比赛。

Heidiary wants to be the first Afghan female fighter in MMA mixed martial arts.

Heidiary想成为MMA格斗中的第一位阿富汗女击手。

The male and female athletes in January's event come mostly from MMA and boxing.

在1月份的比赛大多是男女格斗和击。

Heidiary says her MMA goal won't be reached for at least five years, but her stamina keeps up.

Heidiary说，她的MMA目标至少在五年内不会实现，但她会坚持不懈。

New York is one of only two states— neighbouring Connecticut is the other—which do not permit professional MMA fights.

纽约同康乃狄克州是美国唯一两个禁止职业MMA格斗的州。

I wanted to do an MMA competition or do do kind of a formal fight sometime in the next year.

我想在接下来的一年里参加格斗比赛或者做一场正式的比赛。

Oh, I see. Do you like MMA better or kick boxing better because I know you used to box, right?

哦，我明白了。我知道你以前练习击，那你是更喜欢格斗还是踢？

I either run at the Han River, lift weights, or I'd go to Korean Zombie dabble and MMA a little bit.

我要么去汉江跑步，要么去举重，要么去玩韩国僵尸游戏，再来点格斗。

Well, recently in Canada as well but, you know, in America, in North America now MMA is really big.

最近在加拿大很受欢迎，现在在美洲，尤其是北美，格斗非常受欢迎。

Nowadays, we don't really have gladiators, but we do have boxers and MMA fighters.

如今，我们并没有真正的角斗士，但我们有击手和格斗选手。

Says here Austin runs an MMA gym in Brooklyn.

奥斯汀在布鲁克林经营了一家健身馆。

7% of boxers had either lost of consciousness or suffered serious eye injury during fights, compared to only 4% of MMA fighters.

7% 的击手在战斗中要么失去知觉，要么眼睛严重受伤，相比之下，这一比例在 MMA 选手中只有 4%。

Yeah, I guess that's why you fight MMA and I don't.

怪不得你玩格斗 我就不行。

And while you might be thinking of Mixed Martial Arts or MMA, it turns out that boxing is actually the most dangerous.

虽然你可能会想到混武术或格斗，但事实证明击才是是最危险的运动。

The University of Alberta, using medical data after matches, found that although 60% of MMA fighters sustained injuries vs. 50% of boxers, MMA injuries were less severe.

阿尔伯塔大学在赛后调查医疗数据发现，尽管 60% 的格斗选手都会受伤，而击手受伤的比例为 50%，但格斗的伤势没有那么严重。

MMA stands for mixed martial arts so I guess by the name you can tell that there are a lot of different variations of MMA.

MMA是格斗，我想从名字上你也可以理解，格斗包括很多种不同的技术。