Full Contact Championship

Title: Full Contact Championship Founded: 2009 Founder: Prashant Kumar Directors: Binoy Khimji Joy Kapur Parent: Full Contact Entertainment Pvt. Ltd Headquarter: Mumbai, India Website: www.fccmma.in[1]
Directors of FCC: From Left - Binoy Khimji, Joy Kapur, Prashant Kumar

Full Contact Championship (FCC) is India's longest[2] running professional mixed martial arts fight network. Founded in 2009, under the banner of Full Contact Entertainment Pvt. Ltd, FCC is India's first pro MMA organization.[3] FCC has been sanctioned by Mixed Martial Arts Association of India and has followed the usual "Fight Night" format. It is one of the MMA organisations, formed to promote the sport of MMA in India and globally. Till date, FCC has had 12 fight nights; the most recent one being held at Mumbai on 29 January 2016 by the name of FCC-12.[4]

Management Team

  1. Prashant Kumar[5] - Founder & Director - Prashant Kumar is a Mixed Martial Arts expert who participated in Free Style Fighting in Mumbai in the early 90's. Prashant has a Black Belt in Taekwondo, has trained in Kickboxing, Muay Thai, and has also cross trained in Grappling and Judo.
  2. Binoy Khimji[6] - Director
  3. Joy Kapur - Director

FCC Fight Nights

Since 2009, FCC has produced 12 fight nights. Their occurrence has been in the following order:

Fight Night Venue City
FCC-1 Famous Studios, Mahalaxmi Mumbai
FCC-2 Famous Studios, Mahalaxmi Mumbai
FCC-3 Famous Studios, Mahalaxmi Mumbai
FCC-4 Filmalaya Studio, Andheri Mumbai
FCC-5 Famous Studios, Mahalaxmi Mumbai
FCC-6 Famous Studios, Mahalaxmi Mumbai
FCC-7 Famous Studios, Mahalaxmi Mumbai
FCC-8 Vagator Hill Top, Vagator Goa
FCC-9 Famous Studios, Mahalaxmi Mumbai
FCC-10 Vagator Hill Top, Vagator Goa
FCC-11 Famous Studios, Mahalaxmi Mumbai
FCC-12 Famous Studios, Mahalaxmi Mumbai

Rules

FCC's current rules are based upon the Unified Rules of Mixed Martial Arts that were originally established by the New Jersey State Athletic Control Board and modified by the Nevada State Athletic Commission.

Cage

FCC uses a 6 sided Hexagon cage for its fights. This cage was introduced in FCC-12. Prior to FCC-12, the fights took place in a square ring.

FCC-12

FCC-12 took place at Famous Studios, Mumbai on 29 January 2016. This was by far the biggest of FCC fight nights. This event marked the introduction of a hexagon fight cage into FCC. The fight night saw a total of 9 bouts, including a wild card entry bout as well. Wali "The Warrior",[7] an Afghani mixed martial artist was the winner of the Main Event Bout, beating Mumbai's "Furious" Farhan. FCC-12 had a telecast on DD Sports and was widely covered by a lot of print, online and television media. It had online ticket sales on Bookmyshow and had partnered with Fever 104 FM for Radio Promotions. During the FCC-12 Fight Night, the founder Prashant Kumar announced FCC League[8] - World's First ever MMA League. FCC league will be a 7 city team based league and will consist of 7 fighters in each team, one being an international fighter.

References

  1. ↑ "FCC – Full Contact Championship". www.fccmma.in. Retrieved 2016-03-29.
  2. ↑ "India's Longest Running MMA Promotion Returns to Mumbai For Full Contact Championship 6". MMAmania.com. Retrieved 2016-03-28.
  3. ↑ "For the first time, India will witness the form of mixed martial arts". dnaindia.com. Retrieved 2016-03-28.
  4. ↑ "FCC 12 (Full Contact Championship)". allevents.in. Retrieved 2016-03-28.
  5. ↑ "Interview With Prashant Kumar Of The Full Combat Championship (FCC) |". theringsideview.com. Retrieved 2016-03-28.
  6. ↑ "Mumbai Angels - Individual Members". www.mumbaiangels.com. Retrieved 2016-03-28.
  7. ↑ Sherdog.com. "Ahmed Wali Hotak". Sherdog. Retrieved 2016-03-31.
  8. ↑ "Full Contact Entertainment unveiled FCC". Star World News. Retrieved 2016-03-28.
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