The growing sport of mixed martial arts worries some local deputies, who say teens are mimicking the fight moves in backyard bouts that could lead to injury.
Orange County Sheriff's Deputy Lance Christensen, a school resource officer who covers unincorporated south Orange County areas, said he has increasingly been counseling kids from several high schools in the past year who are participating in ultimate fighting – a form of mixed martial arts that once was an underground sport but is now becoming a mainstream activity.
"It's a growing trend," Christensen said. "It's become mainstream in the last year and the kids have just embraced it. It's one of the newest trends that's taken off."
Within the past year, he came across one fight involving 100 spectators at an area park.
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