AMMO event on Feb. 16
by Brian Woodman Jr. on 02/15/13
As a reminder to our readers, the Glastonbury-based AMMO Fight League will be holding an event on Feb. 16 in South Windsor at 100 Bidwell Road. Details for the event, which will be one of six grappling events sponsored by AMMO this year, are available at http://www.nutmegmma.com/Events.html. The dates and details for the other five events are being determined.
Our previous piece on AMMO can be read at http://www.nutmegmma.com/Spring-Summer2012_Archive5.html.
Although the event is a tournament based around mixed grappling styles, company founder Bill "Idol" Vigil stresses that the events are intended to mirror the style of the UFC and other major MMA organizations. Grapplers holding a belt in the organization do not pay a registration fee as long as they defend their titles, he said, and also receive a portion of the event revenues as well as $10 for each event in which a fighter they refer to the company participates.
He added the organization is partnered with the Rhode Island company Classic Entertainment Sports, which organizes MMA events. He confirmed there is interest in cultivating some of the company's grapplers for MMA events.
The company's reigning belt holders from last year will defend their belts tommorow in an event that will also feature divisions for children that grapple. There will be both gi and no-gi matches.
It will also mark the debut of women grapplers in the organization. Female matches will be held in the lightweight and middleweight divisions.
"There has been a lot of interest expressed in this," said Vigil.
The weight classes for men at the tournament include Super Heavyweight, Heavyweight, Cruiserweight, Light Heavyweight, Middleweight, Welterweight, Lightweight, Featherweight, Bantamweight and Flyweight.
Further articles on AMMO, including grappler profiles, are coming.
