{"id":17260,"date":"2025-08-22T12:04:20","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T12:04:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=17260"},"modified":"2025-08-22T12:04:20","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T12:04:20","slug":"the-pakistan-combat-night-2025-quarterfinals-kickoff-in-lahore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=17260","title":{"rendered":"The Pakistan Combat Night 2025 quarterfinals kickoff in Lahore"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>The Pakistan Combat Night 2025 event kicked off on Friday with quarterfinals and semifinals taking place in 12 categories, featuring the top Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) fighters of the country.<br \/>\nThe quarterfinals on the opening day witnessed bouts in strawweight, flyweight, bantamweight, featherwieght, lightweight, welterweight, middleweightweight, and light heavyweight categories for men.<br \/>\nMeanwhile, atomweight, flyweight, bantamweight, and featherweight bouts will take place in the event for women fighters.<br \/>\nACTIVIT is supporting the event by providing medical treatment to the fighters in the event to ensure the safety and health of the athletes.<br \/>\nPAKMMAF President Omar Ahmed was quoted in the local media, thanking the Government of Punjab.<br \/>\nHe thanked Chief Minister Punjab Maryam Nawaz for her leadership, \u201cWith her all-out support, the MMA is now the sport of choice for Pakistani youth, who can relate more to Khabib than Babar Azam. We are proud to see it emerge as the future of sports with some champions as global icons.\u201d<br \/>\nThe main event, \u201cBattle for Truth \u2013 Pakistan Combat Night,\u201d will take place on August 24.<br \/>\nThe fights will be held across two venues. The qualifiers and semifinals will take place at BraveGym in Lahore on August 22 and 23.<br \/>\nThe grand finale and the main event will be open to the general public at the DHA Phase 6 Sports Complex in Lahore.<br \/>\nThe mega event is organised solely by the PAKMMA Federation, under the leadership of its President Omar Ahmed.<br \/>\nThe tournament brings together professional and amateur fighters from Pakistan, Egypt, Tunisia, Uzbekistan, and beyond.<br \/>\nThe event followed a series of nationwide selection trials and is being positioned as a national platform for talent development. Select pro card athletes from this tournament will be granted the opportunity to participate in the prestigious Road to BRAVE series in Georgia, USA, later this year \u2014 offering global exposure to Pakistan&#8217;s top fighters.<br \/>\nTo ensure the safety and well-being of all athletes, the event is being supported by Rd. Rizwan Aftab Ahmed, CEO ACTIVIT and Director of National Hospital &amp; Medical Centre who will be providing on-site medical care, emergency response services, and athlete support throughout the tournament.<br \/>\nTwo of Pakistan&#8217;s top fighters \u2014 both ACTIVIT-sponsored athletes \u2014 will feature in the main card:<br \/>\nRizwan Ali (Pakistan, 9-0) will face Adham Mohammed (Egypt, 11-4)<br \/>\nEman Falcon Khan (Pakistan, 6-3) will compete against Maha Houmiel (Tunisia, 3-1)<br \/>\nBoth athletes&#8217; nutrition, training, and medical support in the lead-up to the event have been facilitated by ACTIVIT.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pakistan Combat Night 2025 event kicked off on Friday with quarterfinals and semifinals taking place in 12 categories, featuring the top Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) fighters of the country. The quarterfinals on the opening day witnessed bouts in strawweight, flyweight, bantamweight, featherwieght, lightweight, welterweight, middleweightweight, and light heavyweight categories for men. Meanwhile, atomweight, flyweight, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17260\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}