The Ukraine amateur MMA team impressed once again at the IMMAF | WMMAA Amateur MMA World Championships, taking 4th place in the senior medal table for the second year in a row. While 2018 women’s strawweight champion Daria Samchik and light-heavyweight contender Dima Ruzhytskyi each picked up bronze medals, it…
In 2018 – 2019 Ukraine’s national amateur MMA team emerged as a steadily growing power in the team landscape. While Bahrain and Russia battled it out for the moniker of being the world’s no.1 ranked team, Ukraine made things difficult as the nation continued to frequent the podium, securing their…
There was a sense of anticipation and mystery heading into the inaugural IMMAF -WMMAA Youth MMA World Championships, hosted last month in the city of Rome. The first event of its kind on a major international scale, 26 member nations of IMMAF – WMMAA came together in the Italian capital,…
Ukraine’s Artem Afanasenko pulled off one of the biggest individual wins ever seen on the IMMAF – WMMAA international amateur platform, ending the 28-0 win streak of double world champion and former European Open gold medalist, Bulgaria’s Delyan Georgiev. Georgiev, who entered the 2019 European Open, taking place from 18-23…
Ukraine’s Daryna Harbar (pictured) completed an impressive debut on the international IMMAF – WMMAA platform, upsetting 2018 junior world championships flyweight silver medalist, Millie Eriksson, on Day 2 of the European Open in Rome. The 2019 European Open Championships take place from 18-23 June. In stepping up to the senior…
Director of Regulatory Affairs Marc Goddard joined IMMAF President Kerrith Brown in Kiev, as the nation’s MMA Federation completed its 2019 national amateur championships.
Pictured above: Certified referee Alexandr Lunga at the 2018 IMMAF-WMMAA World Championships By IMMAF.org lead writer, Jorden Curran The National MMA Federation of Ukraine continues to spread the global standard for MMA officiating, now unified under IMMAF and WMMAA. Following the amalgamation of the International MMA Federation (IMMAF) and World MMA Association…
