CIT MMA club open competition

CITMMACLUB

Cork Institute of Technology MMA club
Hold their first MMA open competition on February 12th 2011

This competition is open to all clubs and all college martial arts clubs

Info:
Date & time: Saturday February 12th weigh in 10am, first fight 11am (please arrive by 9.30)

Venue: The Boxing Clinic Ballycureen Industrial estate Frankfield Cork

Entry: €15 per fighter

Fighters must have permission from their coach and be covered by their own clubs insurance

No head shots - standing or grounded

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Weight categories:
-60kg
-65kg
-70kg
-75kg
-80kg
-85kg
-90kg
95kg+

Fight wear:
MMA gloves
shin & instep pads (no metal buckles)
grion guards
mouth guard

Not allowed: Martial arts shoes & t shirt, short with zips or any thing metal

1 x 5minute round

All fights are in an Octagon cage

No head shots standing or grounded & no small joint manipulation(fingers)

All other strikes are permitted

Submissions permitted


Techniques not allowed/clarifications:

• No spiking opponent onto their head
• No slamming
• No shots directly to the spine or neck
• No foot stomps
• No shots to neck or throat

Illegal techniques:

· Strikes to the throat or any area around the neck
· Pulling of clothes, holding onto shorts, your own or opponents
· Small joint manipulation – finger, toes
· No direct hair pulling – this would include kneeling on the hair of an opponent on purpose
· Eye gouging
· Ear pulling
· Biting
· Head butting – to the head or body


Rules:

• Fights are full contact
• Fighters must be dry entering the fight – No Oils, balms, water, sweat, Vaseline of any description allowed, referees will inspect fighters before fight
• A fighter is considered “grounded” if any part of their body is in contact with the ground besides their feet – i.e. –Knee/s, hand, elbow etc.
• Fighters who break rules will be warned by the ref , if the rule breakage is serious there will be no warning all the fighter will DQ
• Sportsmanship and mutual respect must be shown at all times
• If a fight lasts 5minutes with no winner a decision will be made
• The referees decision is final in all cases

Fight restarts

A fight will be restarted if-
· Referee wants to talk to/warn a fighter, check an injury
· Gear needs readjusting – Gloves come off, shin pads slip down

A maximum of 8 fighters per weight category

Sign up in The Boxing Clinic

If you have had 3 or more c class fights or have fought pro or semi pro
MMA you cannot enter this competition
& if you have 3 or more yars experience in full contact martial arts


More Info email: citmmaclub@gmail.com

CITMMACLUB

Referee for this competition will be our clubs head coach, Justin Robbins.

Justin will act as both ref and judge, being in the cage as the fight happens he will have the best view. He is also by far the most experienced man for the job.

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Sign up ASAP as places are filling up.

We hope to set up a paypal account so if you are not from Cork you can pay online

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Any info, Contact citmmaclub@gmail.com

sdub

will he ref his own students?seems abit unfair if so. Also how many fights would one get?

mmmm...not sure

Mate I don't want to put a damper on things but this is the same day as chaos 8 which will take away alot of competitiors and then competitiors that can take part your are only allowing if they have never fought competively before seems a bit strange to me. Also I think you should bring in a neutral ref as will save any arguements of bias should any results be disputed.

Barry SeanScoil

Whats up with not allowing fighters that have fought with head strikes before, does this include people that fought ametuer Thai or Boxing or TKD???
What about blue belts, purple belts........??? or Judo guys, they would have more of any advantage than anybody the fought with head stikes in my view.

John Ferguson

mmmm...not sure wrote: »

this is the same day as chaos 8.

Guys to help avoid date clashes keep an eye HERE

CITMMACLUB

sdub wrote: »

will he ref his own students?seems abit unfair if so. Also how many fights would one get?

There is no need to worry, Justin is a professional fighter and out of any one he will be fair. He is a full time MMA coach and fighter so his experience of seeing decisions will shine through on the day. And sure i suppose at the end of the day every one knows some one!

But there is no risk of unfair decisions.

CITMMACLUB

mmmm...not sure wrote: »

Mate I don't want to put a damper on things but this is the same day as chaos 8 which will take away alot of competitiors and then competitiors that can take part your are only allowing if they have never fought competively before seems a bit strange to me. Also I think you should bring in a neutral ref as will save any arguements of bias should any results be disputed.

Yeah, but dude thats a show! This is a competition! and at opposite ends of the country!

With the sport growing every year this sort of thing is going to happen more and more. Im sure both events will both be very successful

CITMMACLUB

Barry SeanScoil wrote: »

Whats up with not allowing fighters that have fought with head strikes before, does this include people that fought ametuer Thai or Boxing or TKD???
What about blue belts, purple belts........??? or Judo guys, they would have more of any advantage than anybody the fought with head stikes in my view.

Barry, we've settled on

If you have had 3 or more c class fights or have fought pro or semi pro
MMA you cannot enter this competition

And if you have 3 or more years experiencefull contact martial arts
(this rule, most people know them selves what level they are at, and this competition is for people at medium level) so its not a strict 3 exact years.

Rather than getting into very specific detail we are trying to have this competition in a friendly mentality.

Every one should come along, its going to be a great day for people into mma, whether to watch or fight

CITMMACLUB

PLEASE SEE CHANGE TO MAIN POST

If you have had 3 or more c class fights or have fought pro or semi pro
MMA you cannot enter this competition

& IF YOU HAVE 3 OR MORE YEARS EXPERIENCE IN FULL CONTACT MARTIAL ARTS

mmmm...not sure

CITMMACLUB wrote: »

Yeah, but dude thats a show! This is a competition! and at opposite ends of the country!

With the sport growing every year this sort of thing is going to happen more and more. Im sure both events will both be very successful

Yeah mate but lads will travel to compete in competitions so saying it far away from derry makes no difference, there was a clash between a chaos show and a show I think in Wexford a while ago and it showed big time with both fighters and crowd attendance

Barry.Oglesby

In fairness everything clashes.

If anything there's not enough of these types of show and too many pro shows.

CITMMACLUB

Barry.Oglesby wrote: »

In fairness everything clashes.

If anything there's not enough of these types of show and too many pro shows.

Thats it man :cool:

CITMMACLUB

mmmm...not sure wrote: »

Yeah mate but lads will travel to compete in competitions so saying it far away from derry makes no difference, there was a clash between a chaos show and a show I think in Wexford a while ago and it showed big time with both fighters and crowd attendance

Which are you going to?

CITMMACLUB

WE ARE CURRENTLY SETTING UP AN ONLINE SIGN UP METHOD.
WHERE FIGHTERS CAN PAY AND SIGN UP.

JohnMc1

Sounds good. So its pretty much like the MMA league except in a Cage?

illeagles_mcc

JohnMc1 wrote: »

Sounds good. So its pretty much like the MMA league except in a Cage?

great idea

looks like its gonna be a good one!

Chris Dowling

Good on yee , will see ya there with a few fighters!

CITMMACLUB

JohnMc1 wrote: »

Sounds good. So its pretty much like the MMA league except in a Cage?

Yup! We thought it would be cool to have the fights in the cage. Guys at this level dont get alot of opportunities to fight in the cage so it'll be some thing different.

It'll be interesting also to see how people deal with take downs and thing with a cage, theres no risk of rolling off the mat and the fight being restarted

JohnMc1

CITMMACLUB wrote: »

Yup! We thought it would be cool to have the fights in the cage. Guys at this level dont get alot of opportunities to fight in the cage so it'll be some thing different.

It'll be interesting also to see how people deal with take downs and thing with a cage, theres no risk of rolling off the mat and the fight being restarted

Thanks. If I can lose a few more pounds I might give it a whirl.

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JohnMc1

Chris Dowling wrote: »

Good on yee , will see ya there with a few fighters!

Is Mihal [I hope I spelled that right] still teaching your MMA classes by any chance?

CITMMACLUB

JohnMc1 wrote: »

Is Mihal [I hope I spelled that right] still teaching your MMA classes by any chance?

Are you asking if "Mihal" is still coaching in cit?

Im sorry but iv no idea who mihal is..

Our coach is Justin "Round house kick" Robbins

JohnMc1

CITMMACLUB wrote: »

Are you asking if "Mihal" is still coaching in cit?

Im sorry but iv no idea who mihal is..

Our coach is Justin "Round house kick" Robbins

I was asking Chris if Mihal teaches the MMA classes at his gym Dragon's Lair.

CIT is a bit too far out for me.

Kerikosan

I will defo be there to watch the competition anyway should be a good competition

Niall0

Not long to go now, hopefully there will be a good turnout.

Niall0

The competition was a great day out should be pics and videos up soon id say.

Barry SeanScoil

Well done to Dylan Sheehan from 'SEANSCOIL'. Winner of the under 65kg category.
Well done also to every1 else who competed and organised this event, lets hope there will be alot more of this sort of thing in the future. I'd love to see lads wearing head gear and head shots being aloud maybe a different category??

theboxingclinic

well done to all competitors and all clubs involved. congrats to niall scollard silver u65, sean tobin gold u70, graham mccormack gold u75, 3 subs in 3 fights, and gold to will fleury over 90 all Boxing Clinic.
was already thinking along those lines barry.

SuperWoody101

Few pics from the event.

http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/album.php?aid=53372&id=100000554566350

I did not see one bad fight at this event, everyone who fought gave it there all, great day of action.

SuperWoody101

Fight Videos from the event.

http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=883518196703D037

Credit: Brian Gabriel