By Adnan Sipra
MIXED martial arts (MMA) fans are set for a cage fighting extravaganza over the next few days as the BRAVE International Combat Week gets underway tonight with an opening ceremony at the Khalifa Sports City Arena.
The start of the inaugural edition of the MMA Super Cup contest precedes the much-awaited bantamweight World Championship title fight between ‘The Pride of Bahrain’ Hamza Kooheji and Canadian-Irish fighter Brad Katona on Friday and will conclude the following day.
“It’s marvellous to see all this happening,” BRAVE Combat Federation (BRAVE CF) president Mohammed ‘The Hawk’ Shahid told the GDN in an exclusive interview. “Not just the event itself, but what it means to the people of Bahrain, to the kingdom. This is a massive achievement, by any standards.”
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