When it comes to professional mixed martial artists in Bahrain, two names stand out – Hamza Kooheji and Hussain Ayyad, both KHK MMA athletes and members of BRAVE Combat Federation’s roster.
While Kooheji is one of the pioneers of the sport in the country and considered by many as the main propeller of mixed martial arts in the kingdom, with his upward trajectory getting mixed with KHK and BRAVE CF, Ayyad is more of a product of a well-developed system, a perfect showcase of the achievements of the vision in Bahrain.
When KHK MMA first started, the idea was to create a foundation on which the sport of mixed martial arts would develop and implement a vision to athletes, from the grassroots to the highest level of the sport, a step that helped develop BRAVE CF as a premier global MMA promotion.
Ayyad went through the whole process, starting his training at the KHK MMA camp, developing under competent coaches, and growing with the support of a team of professionals and highly skilled teammates.
Ayyad quickly rose through the amateur rankings and gained impressive results and medals on the International Mixed Martial Arts Federation (IMMAF) international calendar, representing Team Bahrain, arguably the most successful in the history of the federation.
With more than 17 amateur fights and a very positive record, Ayyad took the next natural step and joined BRAVE CF. With all his pro fights so far under the world’s fastest-growing MMA promotion’s banner, ‘Iron’, as he’s also known, built a resume of four wins and only two losses.
Currently recovering from a gruesome injury suffered in his last bout, that cost him the win and a couple of months on the sidelines, Ayyad is still pretty much in the picture for a potential title shot in a near future.
With the required talent, skills, fan following and background to become the world champion, the title would be the cherry on top of a burgeoning career.
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