With over 300 athletes from 36 nations set to compete at the 2019 IMMAF – WMMAA European Open & Junior European Open Championships, women’s participation at the event will be at an all time high since its 2015 inception. With the annual growth of women’s participation at the European Open…
The 2019 Africa Open Championships under IMMAF – WMMAA concluded on May 25 in Johannesburg. In comparison to record breaking events such as the European Open or World Championships, now regularly boasting over 300 competing athletes from across the vast IMMAF – WMMAA global membership, the Africa Open is recognized…
Team Cameroon enjoyed one of its best days on the international amateur MMA platform, emerging undefeated from Day 1 of the 2019 IMMAF – WMMAA Africa Open Championships in Johannesburg. Four of the nation’s six-man team were set for action on Day 1 with each advancing through the quarter-final stage.…
French mixed martial artist Axel Sola has shot to the summit of the IMMAF – WMMAA world amateur MMA rankings, as he continues his final year of amateur competition. Having previously revealed that 2019 will mark his final year as an amateur contender, the 21-year-old self-funded athlete has committed to…
World championships standouts from Mexico, Canada and France were dominant in the 2019 Pan American Open semi-finals, yet it was a day where results granted widespread opportunity to nations across the Americas and beyond. Mexico remains in pole position to cap of the Pan-American Open Championships as the event’s most…
The Amateur MMA Pan-American Open Championships made its compelling debut yesterday (May 16) as the fifth continental open championships of the IMMAF – WMMAA platform. Taking place in the Bahamas, the host nation secured a historic first victory on the international platform as men’s featherweight contender DiJonnaise Brown (pictured below)…
International MMA champion and UFC contender, France’s Tom Duquesnoy, has announced his retirement from MMA competition, expressing passion for a new path of teaching MMA and the spiritual aspects of martial arts. The 25-year-old was recruited to the UFC bantamweight division in 2017 after making a name for himself in…
As an undefeated prodigy of the UK’s amateur MMA scene, Muhammad Mokaev has now stormed beyond the comforts of home turf to prove himself at the international level. Mokaev was just 12-years-old when he and his family moved to Manchester, England, all the way from Dagestan in Russia, a famous…
By IMMAF.org lead writer: Jorden Curran The Russian MMA Union recently announced that new steps have been taken to actively develop home grown amateur talent among women. Until now, the sole focus of the government regulatory body has been in men’s MMA, and with world leading success as tens-of-thousands of athletes compete across…
By IMMAF.org lead writer: Jorden Curran Kazakh athlete Shavkat Rakhmonov (pictured above) extended his professional MMA record to 11-0 on April 30, winning the vacant M-1 welterweight championship as the latest international amateur standout to progress and earn an established pro title. IMMAF president Kerrith Brown was in attendance at…
