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No rounds, no weight courses, no cage: Brutal Polish bareknuckle MMA returns with first ladies’s bout (VIDEO)
If combined martial arts has a couple of too many guidelines in your tastes, maybe it’s time to solid a look in direction of the brand new Polish combat league Wotore – a weird, violent hybrid of MMA, bareknuckle boxing and, sure, sumo wrestling.
Wotore bouts could not be far more totally different when in comparison with its MMA cousin.
For one, there are not any closing dates. There aren’t even any rounds. There are not any weight courses. Fights will proceed till there’s a winner.
Luckily, given the arsenal that every fighter is allowed to make use of throughout the sport’s ruleset the fights do not typically proceed for very lengthy certainly.
Wotore fights happen inside a round ring which has no barrier, resembling a cage, to maintain fighters enclosed – you may even headbutt your opponent.
Principally, Wotore does what combined martial arts does not – and plainly combat followers are consuming it up.
General, #Wotore2 was an enormous success. The format labored out higher than their first present. Motion packed card from prime to backside. Not having rounds means they will’t take a break. Trying ahead to the following one. @wotore
— Seán Denny (@DennyRants) Might 23, 2020
The group held its second-ever match on Saturday in Katowice, with Polish MMA veteran Michael Pasternak triumphing in opposition to three opponents in a single night time to say the championship crown.
The combat card additionally featured the primary ever ladies’s bout in Wotore historical past as Klaudia Sygula triumphed in opposition to Karolina Sobek by heel hook submission two and a half minutes into the combat.
Michal Pasternak def. Kacper Miklasz by way of first spherical anaconda choke, profitable the Wotore 2 (bareknuckle mma) match. #Wotore2 pic.twitter.com/rXAdON2omL
— caposa (@Grabaka_Hitman) Might 23, 2020
Match winner Pasternak additionally wracked off some submission wins, beating Kacper Miklasz by Brabo Choke within the match ultimate.
By far the preferred technique of victory, although, was good old style floor n’ pound with the freer ruleset (which permits headbutts, together with knee and elbow strikes) affording fighters a spread of latest choices from prime management place.
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It stays to be seen whether or not the upstart combat league can discover its footing within the already jam-packed fight sports activities calendar. 2019 noticed a surge in reputation for bare-knuckle boxing (one thing which Wotore contains inside its ruleset) however maybe the more true comparability can be to the outdated Vale Tudo days of bare-knuckle fight which proved to be the precursor to combined martial arts as we all know it immediately.
The promotion is anticipated to announce particulars of their third occasion earlier than lengthy. Judging by the response to their second, it looks as if it would have quite a lot of new eyeballs mounted to it.
