The First Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) Amateurs Championship 2016 was held on Friday as part of “Yalla Riyadha” (Let’s Play Sport). It was organised by the Youth and Sports Affairs Ministry at Khalifa Sports City in Isa Town.
The championship was attended by Supreme Council for Youth and Sports’ first deputy chairman and founder of the Khalid bin Hamad Mixed Martial Arts Team (KHK MMA) Shaikh Khalid bin Hamad Al Khalifa.
Over 40 participants from Kuwait, Palestine, the US, Ukraine and Bahrain took part in the championship.
Shaikh Khalid said the championship was held in order to promote MMA sport at the regional level.
The results: Ali Al Qassab bt Mohammed Hassan, Isa Al Rasheed bt Hamad Matar, Ali Al Shuwaikh bt Hamad Faisal, Abdulla Asef bt Feras Jaffar, Hassan Haji bt Maher Khalil, Jowail Beju bt Ali Jaffar, Hunter Mohammed bt Mohammed Budrees, Abbas Khan bt Abdulla Al Hajri, Abdulla Bushehri bt Dimaseiv, Bassam Al Sadeq bt Chris Meltek, Nayef Fekri bt Ali Nasser, Abadah Al Mullah bt Mahmood Asfandeeri, Sulaiman Mediam bt Mohammed Adnan, Fahad Abdulrazzaq bt Ahmed Ayyad and Atef Mohammed bt Hassan Ayyad.