Abstract
The aim of this research was to identify the versions of Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) athletes that circulated in the stages of preparation for a fight (camp). With this purpose, we followed the daily life of an athlete of a major league of the sport, the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), in the year 2014. The methodology followed the postulations of ethnography. We adopted the theoretical and methodological approach of actor-network theory, in dialogue with Social Psychology. In phases of the camp it was possible to identify the following versions of the athlete: a) worker in precarious conditions (training); b) idol (in the week of event); c) survivor (weighing); d) "thick-skinned" (on the day of the fight); and e) "human" (post-fight). Research suggests that there is not a specific type of wrestler, or different perspectives on it; he is multiple, a result of the practices in which he is involved.
Keywords:
Sport Psychology; Social psychology; Ethnography MMA