The Arabian Combat Sports (ACS) organization held a martial arts sports evening this weekend in Tripoli which, for the occasion, turned into the combat sports capital of the Middle East. Under the slogan “The Return,” this sporting event took place in the indoor sports hall of el-Mina (Tripoli) under the supervision of the kickboxing and Muay Thai federations.
The expectations of the organization’s president, Walid Ajaj, were confirmed as he declared on the eve of the event that “Lebanon and the Middle East will witness a royal evening of combat sports.” Indeed, no less than four and a half thousand people have been gathering in the port city’s sports hall since midday to watch the high-level fights. Thousands were unable to enter the hall after tickets sold out several days before the event. As a result, observers described the event as one of the most memorable evenings of combat sports, which is a booming discipline, in Lebanon’s history.
Here are the results:
Muay Thai:
56 kg weight: Ali Fakih beats Jihad Hawshar.
60 kg weight: Nabil Mcharrafieh beats Ahmed Shandi.
63 kg weight: Abdelhafiz Mustafa (Palestine) beats Mohamed Shandi.
Weight 73 kg: Ahmed Houlie beats Abu Ayed (Palestine).
Weight 75 kg: Ahmed Al-Qadi beats Hisham Siraj.
81 kg weight: Ali Safi al-Din beats Rabah al-Houli.
Weight 85 kg: Ali Tarraf beats Alex Fernandez (Spain).
91 kg weight: Charbel Tannous beats Hussein Hammoudi.
Over 91 kg: Abdallah Hayek beats Hadi Bahjat.
Kickboxing:
Weight 65 kg: Azam Rifi beats Jad Haidar.
Weight 70 kg: Samir Zein beats Nabil Al-Asmar (Morocco).
Weight 71 kg: Omar Halima beats Youssef Merhi.
71 kg weight: Fadel Nasrallah beats Mohamed Mneimneh.
Weight 71 kg: Youssef Abboud beats Kolyan Nikolov (Bulgaria).
Weight 74 kg: Bassem Ibrahim beats Omar Balaban (Turkey).
Weight 74 kg: Firas Eid beats Arkan Aka (Turkey).
Weight 82 kg: Nseib Hammadé beats Mohamed Tafsir (Senegal).
At the end of each bout, Walid Ajaj crowned the champions.
