Martial Arts: MMA and grappling promotions before fight night
The Martial Arts section of the line covers MMA and grappling bouts staged outside the UFC, which has a tab of its own in the sports bar. Every promotion gets its own group, and each bout on a fight card is listed as a separate event carrying just two names: the fighter billed first and the opponent.
Promotions you will find here
In the English interface every group title opens with the prefix "Combatsport.", followed by the name of the league. The ones that turn up most often:
Group | Background |
|---|---|
KSW | a Polish MMA promotion |
Oktagon | founded in 2016 and rooted in the Czech Republic and Slovakia |
ONE Championship | headquartered in Singapore |
ACA, AMC Fight Nights, Alash Pride FC | further MMA leagues, each running its own events |
Grappling | groups marked with the word "Grappling" in their title |
If you follow one league, go straight to every KSW bout on offer or to the Oktagon fight list. Below the two fighters a short line names the event, usually with a number, and now and then states what is at stake, such as a divisional belt.
Finding your way around
At the top of the page, the featured pre-match strip scrolls through a selection of bouts, each on a card with the date, time, group and both opponents. Further down, the list of groups shows in brackets how many fights are open in each one; pick a group and the whole card for that event appears. Fighters' names are written in Latin script in the English version.
How a bout can end under the betting rules
The site's rules put martial arts in section 10.8, a section shared with boxing. It lists the ways a fight is decided:
a points victory, where the judges name the winner after the final round;
a win inside the distance, covering a knockout, a technical knockout, the opponent's disqualification or the opponent quitting mid-fight;
a technical decision, when the fight is stopped through injury or for another reason and the judges score the incomplete number of rounds.
On the cards in this section those outcomes come down to three prices, W1, DRAW and W2, plus double chance. A draw needs the judges to have the two fighters level once the last round is over.
Before the first bell: the pre-match line
Bets here are taken ahead of fight night. The section sits in the pre-match line alongside the full list of sports open before the start. The full market list for each bout, from total rounds to the specified-round bet, opens on its own page with one tap from the list. To stake in dirhams, sign up for an account first.