IMMAF World Championships 2015 To Be Held At Flamingo Las Vegas Hotel and Casino

May 19, 2015 by
Filed under: MMA, PRESS RELEASE, Sports 

Ralph Cook, Jeff Meyer, Bertrand AmoussouIMMAF ANNOUNCES FLAMINGO LAS VEGAS AS VENUE

2015 IMMAF World Championships of Amateur MMA at UFC® International Fight Week.

(London. 19th May 2015) The International Mixed Martial Arts Federation (IMMAF) is proud to announce the preliminaries of the 2015 IMMAF World Championships of Amateur MMA at UFC® International Fight Week will be held at Flamingo Las Vegas Hotel and Casino.

The 5-day tournament at the Flamingo Las Vegas will begin with preliminaries from Monday, July 6 to Thursday July 9. The pioneering casino, launched in 1945 by Vegas visionary Bugsy Siegel is the oldest to operate on the strip today. Tickets to the 2015 IMMAF World Championships of Amateur MMA at UFC® International Fight Week are to be released shortly.

The finals of the World Championship tournament will then move to the UFC Fan Expo at the Sands Expo & Convention Center on Saturday, July 11, where IMMAF’s 2015 champions and medallists will be crowned. UFC Fan Expo® tickets are available at www.ufcfanexpo.com with two-day passes beginning at $60 online and $65 onsite. One-day passes begin at $35 online and $45 onsite.

The inaugural 2014 IMMAF World Championships of MMA was the first international competition for amateur MMA in the world to be organized by a non-profit, democratic governing body in accordance with Olympic values, attracting over 100 athletes from 23 countries.  Returning to Vegas as bigger and better, the 2015 IMMAF Championships of Amateur MMA at UFC® International Fight Week is expected to welcome up to 200 athletes across 30 countries and 5 continents. Competitors are expected from as far and wide as Ukraine, Cameroon, Bahrain, Malaysia, New Zealand and the UK. The event which forms part of the planet’s largest celebration of combat sports, as it hits the city for Fight Week, is to be broadcast on UFC FIGHT PASS and international television.

The contest follows a tournament format and competitors will be selected each day by draw to determine who they will face in the next rout over 5 days of competition. With 8 weight classes for men (Flyweight – Heavyweight) and 4 for women (Strawweight – Featherweight), the international event follows IMMAF Rules of Amateur MMA in accordance with local legislation, under the Nevada State Athletic Commission.

IMMAF CEO, Densign White, said:During IMMAF 2014 in Las Vegas
“MMA was first born onto a professional platform spawning grassroots communities globally, and as a young sport has had some catching up to do. The support of the UFC to our movement, which was born from grassroots MMA community for the MMA community, is invaluable. All over the world volunteer groups are working hard to develop safe training pathways and competition ladders for recreational participants in the sport, as well as the stars of tomorrow. It has taken the forward thinkers in all our member countries to initiate the journey that will bring MMA into alignment with all recognized sports. Vegas has historically been a city that has seen dreams come to fruition and the Flamingo is a monument to this past. IMMAF is proud to have its athletes set foot to compete in such an arena, where everything is possible, before moving on into the aspirational UFC Fan Expo for the Finals.”

For additional information please visit UFC.com/fightweek, and follow UFC on Twitter @ufc.

For more information regarding the IMMAF Please visit www.immaf.org and follow on Twitter @IMMAFed

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Contact information: carnwath@immaf.org

About IMMAF

The International Mixed Martial Arts Federation is the international democratic body for the sport of MMA, representing MMA worldwide towards all stakeholders – athletes, coaches, referees, governments, athletic commissions, sports confederations, international organizations, professional promoters and more. Founded from within the MMA community for the MMA community, the purpose of the IMMAF is to protect and further the development and recognition of the sport of MMA on all levels, enabling international competition through the organization of non-profit, democratic national federations. www.immaf.org

About UFC® 

UFC® is the premier mixed martial arts (MMA) organization and largest pay-per-view event provider in the world. Headquartered in Las Vegas with offices in London, Toronto, Singapore and Sao Paulo, UFC produces more than 40 live events annually that consistently sell out some of the most prestigious arenas around the globe. UFC programming is broadcast in 134 countries and territories to over 700 million TV households worldwide in 21 different languages. The UFC has a multi-year broadcast agreement with FOX in the U.S., which annually includes four live events broadcast on the FOX network, as well as The Ultimate Fighter® reality television show and thousands of hours of programming on FOX Sports 1 and FOX Sports 2. In 2014, UFC launched UFC FIGHT PASS™, a digital subscription service with exclusive live events, thousands of fights on-demand and original content. The UFC organization also licenses over 100 UFC GYM® locations, and owns UFC.TV® (offering live event broadcasts and video on-demand around the world), UFC FIT® (an in-home fitness and nutrition program), UFC Magazine, and has a videogame franchise with EA SPORTS, UFC Fight Club®, UFC Fan Expo®, UFC branded apparel, DVDs and Blu-rays and Topps Trading Cards. For more information, visit UFC.com and follow UFC at Facebook.com/UFC, Twitter and Instagram: @UFC.

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