Full Contact Entertainment Brings Fight Night Culture To India

Full Contact Entertainment Pvt. Ltd., the pioneer of Mixed Martial Arts in India, will present the first-ever Professional Mixed Martial Arts Fight Network, “Full Contact Championship” (FCC) in the country in the first quarter of 2009. With this pioneering initiative, FCC will bring the globally popular “Fight Night” culture to India. Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) is a full contact combat sport that allows extremely fit individuals a wide variety of fighting techniques, from a mixture of martial arts traditions and non-traditions, in competitions. FCC is a unique platform for talented Indians to turn into professional fighters and for a vast majority of ‘sports entertainment lovers’ to watch ‘real live action packed fights’. In India’s first night of Super Fights, 6 professionally trained pairs of fighters in various weight categories between 55 kg and 85 kg and above will vie for top honors in 3 rounds of 3 minutes each. The winners will get the FCC crowns and cash prizes. Prashant Kumar, the Founder and Managing Director of Full Contact Entertainment Pvt. Ltd., says, “It has taken me 2 years to get together a stable of the best and extremely fit fighters in the country. By organizing the Full Contact Championship in India, we hope to introduce the concept of professional fighting and extreme fitness, where every fighter gets paid to participate and sports entertainment lovers can enjoy watching real fights. We also aspire to provide a platform to all talented Indian fighters from the remotest corners of the country, make them fit and take them to an international level. ” “FCC is also bringing to the Indian audience the globally popular concept of ‘Fight Night’. MMA and FCC will be a real treat for millions of audiences cutting across all socio-economic and age barriers. Bruce Lee, popularly recognized as the father of Mixed Martial Arts, is quite popular in India even today and a source of inspiration to millions. India is now ‘fighting fit’ for the world,” adds Prashant Kumar. MMA is one of the most effective forms of fitness. MMA practitioners train for up to 6 hours a day. Energy system training, speed drills, strength training and flexibility are extremely important aspects of an MMA practitioners training. MMA competitions are very demanding physically, and the athletes need to be in top shape to be successful. Before participating, an MMA athlete has to undergo an ECG, liver profile, and lung capacity test. MMA practitioners are athletes in supreme physical fitness Full Contact Entertainment Pvt. Ltd. brings the MMA fever to India, for the first time ever, through its pro Fight Network, which comprises trained fighters such as Khushnoor Jijina, Dheeraj, Dada Jadkar, Purva Sherpa, Rajan Satpal, Swapnil Kelshikar, Suresh Chauhan, Sagar Kadu and many others..These MMA practitioners are multi dimensional and well rounded in their skills as a result of their cross training. They will use techniques falling into two categories: striking techniques (such as kicks, knees and punches) and grappling techniques (such as clinch holds, pinning holds, submission holds, sweeps, takedowns and throws). Fighters Present are SAGAR KADU: National Silver Medalist in KickBoxing. SURESH SHYAM CHAUHAN: State Level Bronze medalist and Judo SWAPNIL KELSHIKAR: National Gold Medalist in Kick Boxing, and also has been an Asian KickBoxing Quarter Finalist. He has a Fight Record of 21 Matches (18 wins). He has won 14 Gold Medals. Swapnil is also an expert in Grapping. RAJINDER SATPAL: Rajinder is a National Gold Medalist in Boxing. He also participated, and won the IndoRussia Invitation Fight. Rajinder hails from Ratnagiri. DHEERAJ: Gold Medalist at Nepal Kick Boxing Championship. PURVA SHERPA: National Bronze Medalist in Kick Boxing. He is also National level Gold Medalist in Taekwondo, He is also a Grappling expert Purva hails from Nepal KHUSHNOOR JIJINA: 2nd Dan Blackbelt in Judo, and 3rd Dan Blackbelt in Karate. DADA JADKAR: Dada is National Gold Medalist in KickBoxing FCC is the dream project of the multi-faceted dynamic personality Prashant Kumar, a qualified lawyer and an ad film maker. He is the sole proprietor and creative head of a production company called "Production House". He has been training as a professional martial arts for the past 20 years. Prashant has a black belt in Taekwondo,and is well-versed in full contact kick boxing, Muay Thai. He has further cross-trained in a variety of styles, such as grappling and Judo. Other members of the company include like-minded professionals such as Sudipto Sarkar (4th Dan Black Belt in Taekwondo), Satya Vijay Raut (Expert in Judo, Black Belt Jiu Jitsu, Greco Roman Wrestler) and Vinod Shinde (Kickboxing Expert, and National level Kickboxing Champion). In the period 1990-1993, Prashant participated in full contact, free style fighting. He started formal training in martial arts in the year 1989, in Taekwondo, with his then instructor Sensei Javed Khan. During this time, he also trained in kickboxing and Muay Thai under the instruction of Javed. During the years 1990 to 1993, he participated in full contact free style fighting in Mumbai. He went on to get a black belt in Taekwondo. He heard about MMA in the 1990s. That is when he began to cross train in different fight styles such as Grappling and Judo. Since then, it was his dream to set up a Fight Network in India. In the year 2006, he began to look for full contact fighters in India. He visited various martial arts clubs all over the country, including places like Haryana, Rajasthan, Manipur, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Bihar, Punjab besides various clubs in and around Maharashtra. It has taken him 2 years to source out the best full contact fighters in the country. It has also taken him 2 years to tie up with with various international MMA organizations, who are looking for Indian fighters, and want to send their fighters here to participate in FCC. About Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) Some of the earliest forms of widespread unarmed combat sports with minimal rules were the Shardana and Egyptian freefighting, followed from Greek pankration, which was introduced into the Olympic Games in 648 B.C. The history of modern MMA competition can be traced to mixed style contests throughout Europe, Japan and the Pacific Rim during the early 1900s; the Gracie family's vale tudo martial arts tournaments in Brazil starting in the 1920s; and early mixed martial arts matches hosted by Antonio Inoki in Japan in the 1970s. The sport gained international exposure and widespread publicity in the United States in 1993, when Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu fighter Royce Gracie handily won the first Ultimate Fighting Championship tournament, demolishing three challengers in just five minutes, sparking a revolution in the world of martial arts. In Japan, the continued interest in the sport resulted in the creation of the PRIDE Fighting Championships in 1997. The concept of combining the elements of multiple martial arts was pioneered and popularized by Bruce Lee in the 1960s-70s. Recognition of its effectiveness as a test came as the United States Army began to sanction mixed martial arts with the first annual Army Combatives Championships held by the US Army Combatives School in November 2005. The sport reached a new peak of popularity in North America in the December 2006 rematch between then UFC light heavyweight champion Chuck Liddell and former champion Tito Ortiz, rivaling the PPV sales of some of the biggest boxing events of all time. In 2007, Zuffa LLC, the owners of the UFC MMA promotion, bought Japanese rival MMA brand PRIDE, & merged them.


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FCC is the dream project of the multi-faceted dynamic personality Prashant Kumar, a qualified lawyer and an ad film maker. He is the sole proprietor and creative head of a production company called "Production House". He has been training as a professional martial arts for the past 20 years. Prashant has a black belt in Taekwondo,and is well-versed in full contact kick boxing, Muay Thai. He has further cross-trained in a variety of styles, such as grappling and Judo. Other members of the company include like-minded professionals such as Sudipto Sarkar (4th Dan Black Belt in Taekwondo), Satya Vijay Raut (Expert in Judo, Black Belt Jiu Jitsu, Greco Roman Wrestler) and Vinod Shinde (Kickboxing Expert, and National level Kickboxing Champion).

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