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Pakistan knocked out by India on MMA league debut

Indian fighters dominate Pakistan in the ring, winning five of six matches

Web Desk February 27, 2015

The cage is set. The cameras are set. SFL 38 India vs Pakistan. PHOTO: https://www.facebook.com/SuperFightLeague/

Pakistan marked a disappointing debut in the mixed martial arts (MMA) Indian Super Fight League (SFL) as five Pakistani fighters lost during SFL 38 in Dubai on Friday.

The match day comprised six cage bouts, almost all of which were dominated by Indian fighters.

Pakistan’s Prince Alamgeer Khan lost to Mohammad Shahid of India in the Welterweights category.

In the Bantamweights category, Mohammad Farhad from India beat Pakistan's Adbullah Haiderzai on a technical knockout (TKO).

Indian fighters continued to dominate in the Featherweight category where India's Abdul Muneer knocked out his Pakistani counter-part Ahmed Ali in just 48 seconds.

Pakistan though managed to win one bout after Indian MMA fighter Bhabajeet Chaudhary was disqualified after he kicked Usman Butt on the head while he was still on the ground.

In the light-heavyweight category India claimed victory with the referee stopping the fight between Sandeep Kumar of India and Jerry James of Pakistan, to award Sandeep the winner by KO.

Finally, Anup Kumar knocked out Pakistan's Shams Rehman in a blinding 46 seconds to win in the Flyweights category.

The SFL Dubai show was supervised by an experienced team of expert MMA officials selected from both countries: referees, judges, timekeepers and inspectors to ensure fair decisions. A chief judge from MMA Brazil further supervised the decisions based on Unified rules of MMA.

The hotly anticipated event attended by SFL's director and co-founder Indian actor Shilpa Shetty.

With @AmirKingKhan #SFL38 India vs Pakistan and overall India has won :)) good luck next time Amir rematch :) pic.twitter.com/S52F5XzHHw
— SHILPA SHETTY KUNDRA (@TheShilpaShetty) February 27, 2015

Pakistani-British boxer Amir Khan was the special guest on the night along with television presenter Joe Morrision.

The @amirkingkhan thinks I am younger than my younger brother - which means he is a top lad! @thefightleague pic.twitter.com/zZnmDUinAM
— Joe Morrison (@joefooty) February 27, 2015

COMMENTS (1)

Daniyal | 9 years ago | Reply These were not even Pakistan's best fighters since the best are in One FC, a different promotion. Some of these fighters were only making their debut. It would be nice to see SFL host a fairer event instead of only feeding Pakistani fighters to Indian fighters to build Indian hype (which is the same thing the Japanese did with Koreans in the early 2000s in the Japanese promotion Deep).

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