An MMA fighter wanted his fight name to be registered as an official artist's name in passport and registration register – and moved to the administrative court (VG) Ansbach. His reasoning: Mixed martial arts is art, after all he mixed different martial styles like a DJ music genres. Can an MMA fighter be an artist? And is a cage fight perhaps just as much art as a concert, a play or a dance performance? However, the court did not allow itself t…
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An MMA fighter wanted his fight name to be registered as an official artist's name in passport and registration register – and moved to the administrative court (VG) Ansbach. His reasoning: Mixed martial arts is art, after all he mixed different martial styles like a DJ music genres. Can an MMA fighter be an artist? And is a cage fight perhaps just as much art as a concert, a play or a dance performance? However, the court did not allow itself t…