Tomorrow, Saturday, the Qatar Martial Arts Championship, organized by the Qatar Mixed Martial Arts Committee (MMA), affiliated with the Qatar Boxing and Wrestling Federation, will start at the Aspire Ladies Sports Hall.
The championship, which will see 38 competitors competing in 19 categories throughout the day, is the second official local event of the Qatar Mixed Martial Arts Committee, bringing together all combat sports under one roof.
The Qatar Mixed Martial Arts Committee stressed that the aim of organising this tournament, as well as all local activities, is to provide a closer analysis of the sport and develop the future Qatari national team, so that it can compete at the regional and Asian levels.
The committee held a press conference attended by Sheikh Ali bin Jassim Al Thani and Adel Ghanem Al Marzouqi, members of the committee, during which it revealed the tournament program and the scheduled matches, as well as the different categories and weights that will participate in the event.
The tournament will witness 19 matches in different weight categories, the most prominent of which are two matches for belts. The first is the 18th main match for the belt in the 66 kg weight category, which brings together Mohamed Alaa and Hassan Koush, and the second is the 19th main match for the belt in the 61 kg weight category, in which Abdullah Khan meets Mohamed Amin Adel.
In the rest of the matches, Youssef Al-Aidi will meet Omar Brahma in the 66 kg weight class, Riyahi Mohammed Amin with Abdul Salam Amino in the 70 kg weight class, Shoria Gautam with Tim Fadi in the 50 kg weight class, Abdur Rahman with Mohammed Adnan, Mujahid Mohammed Mirghani with Mohammed Nour Issa in the 57 kg weight class, Marco Garcia with Jose Braidy, Khalifa Al-Shammari with Yassin Hassan in the 85 kg weight class, Akram Ismail with Abdullah Al-Samarrai, Muhannad Al-Hout with Jamal Hussein in the 66 kg weight class, Tamim Al-Shammari with Omar Al-Madady, Ali Ayasra with Omar Al-Saai in the 70 kg weight class, Musnad Al-Mohannadi with Elias Jalal, Osama Finan with Saad Al-Sulaiti, Abdulrahman Al-Batsh with Abdulaziz Al-Jabouri in the 77 kg weight class, Zain Khan with Musab Al-Fadel in the 71 kg weight class, Ezz El-Din Al-Wafi with Sultan Al-Hammadi in the 93 kg weight class, and Yazid Mohammed Ali with Ali Abdulhadi in the Heavy.
Mixed martial arts is one of the fastest growing sports in the world, especially in Asia, where it is now an official sport under the Olympic Council of Asia, making it very likely that it will be one of the sports at the Doha 2030 Asian Games.
