F3 Kombat Championship – Malaysia’s Freestyle Full Contact Fight Championship

F3 Kombat Championship – Malaysia’s Freestyle Full Contact Fight Championship

Published on February 16, 2012 by The Editor in F3 Championship

F3 Championship taking fight sport to the mainstream

13th February, 2012 – Petaling Jaya: F3 Championship

(Freestyle Fullcontact Fight) is a tournament featuring professional and junior fighters from a range of martial arts backgrounds, to battle for championship belt titles this coming 25th and 26th of February, 2012 at the Titiwangsa Stadium.
F3 Championship is a first of its kind in Malaysia which holds both Muay Thai and Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) events over the duration of a the two-day event, produced by M.i. Group Sdn Bhd, jointly organized by various martial arts gyms, including:  KL Freestyle Kickboxing (KLFK), Full Contact MMA Club (FMMAC), Ultimate MMA Academy, Dragon Muay Thai and event organizer RAW Think Tank (RTT).

The championship is sponsored by Everlast Malaysia and supported by the Malaysia Ministry of Youth and Sport, DBKL, Federal Territory Sports Council and Persatuan Muay Thai Malaysia with Astroas media partner.

It will feature more than 15 bouts of Muay Thai and Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) fights over the duration of 2 days.

The main event features Super Fights (fight card) of Malaysian Muay Thai star of Challenger Muay Thai on AXN Faizal “Golden Elbow” Ramli and team mate Ali Yakub against Thai fighters and various matchup of local and international fighters.
The F3 Championship, first organised in 2011 under the name of Freestyle Fullcontact Martial Arts competition by KLFK is developed for martial arts athletes to grow in this sport by providing them a platform to showcase their skills and promote the fighting sport in this nation.

In 2012, it is now rebranded as F3 Kombat Championship.
Championship bouts are Muay Thai 8-man tournament (Muay Thai Super-8) and MMA 4-man tournament (MMA Super-4).

The event also features fighters from the USA, UK, Iran, Turkmenistan, Borneo, Thailand, Sudan and many others.
Main event for both nights start at 8.30pm with a Junior Muay Thai event earlier in the day from 9am – 2pm, allowing new fighters to take the stages and build a fight portfolio, improve their fight record or just allow them to put their skills to the test and gain experience.
All participants for the Junior Muay Thai event will be awarded with a medal, fight purse and a certificate.

F3 Championship main event will be crowning a new F3 Muay Thai Champion and a new F3 MMA Champion.

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The Super 4 Event will feature the following fighters:

Allamurad Karayev (Muayfit),

Alvin Chong (Borneo Combat Gym),

Zeus Xian (Ultimate MMA, Johor),

Mohd Fouzein ‘Saigon’ (Malacca MMA)

Other MMA Fights To Be Held At This Event

Sabastion Cole (Ultimate MMA, Johor) vs Ziyad (Muayfit)

Aaron Maximillian Lim (Grapplers United) vs Antonio Graceffo (Ultimate MMA, Johor)

Chee Jian Kai (Muayfit) vs Adrian (Borneo Tribal Squad)

the fight cards listed are correct at the time of going to press but are liable to change due to unforeseen circumstance 
1. For more information: Visit www.facebook.com/f3championship

2. Obtain a flier from any Everlast Malaysia retail outlets

3. Obtain a flier from the following list of participating gyms

Kambiz Warriors Ampang
Dragon Muay Thai Jalan Alor
TNT Kickboxing Hartamas
Tiger Muay Thai Ara Damansara
Muayfit PJ
Ultimate MMA Academy Mount Austin JB
Nook Kok Fight Club PJS 1/32
IMPACT Muay Thai Gym Taman Desa
Singa Malaya
Sitkrumat Klang
KLFK Setiawangsa
KLFMMAC Setiawangsa
Muay Thai Naga Api Gombak
Kelab Michael

About F3 Championship (Kejohanan Kombat F3)
F3 Championship was first organised by KLFK, back in March 2011 to promote Muay Thai and Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) under one single event. It was the first of its kind in Malaysia. In 2012, with the co-organisers involved, KLFK and FMMAC has rebranded the event as F3 Championship (Freestyle Fullcontact Fighting Championship) and uses the same format of Muay Thai and MMA under a two-day event while crowning two new champions. Subsequent F3 Championship will see the champions defending their titles and more new champions to be crowned for other weight classes.

* Not Part of The Press Release – This Is MMAnewsAsia’s own opinion*

What this  event promises is firstly two days of sporting fight action covering many different levels from true amateur  right through to semi-professional. More importantly for this site which covers MMA we will get to see some very good quality MMA match-ups.

It will also be the largest ever MMA event held in Malaysia (not including free events)

It promises some good match-ups and it features some very good young up and coming fighters who may one day be hoping to fight in the larger Asian Organisations. I am sure many of them will wish to emulate Raymond Tiew and Pete Davis from Muayfit, who featured on a recent fight card by Singapores ONE FC in Jaklarta.

But most importantly what this event does is introduce MMA to a Malaysian audience who may initially be attracted to the event by the promise of Kick Boxing and therefore is an opportunity to gain new fans and even possibly new participants.

The fact that the event will be televised on Astro and that is also attracting some top quality sponsorship, speaks volumes for the growth potential of this sport.

I would normally put the event poster with an article like this, but a) it’s a already been on an earlier post of mine. b) since that post it has changed a couple of times c) frankly it’s hideous and all that’s bad about fight posters!