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WATCH: 10 Greco-Roman finals from Zagreb Open

Friday, February 10, 2023 - 11:27 By Vinay Siwach

ZAGREB, Croatia (February 10) -- The Greco-Roman competition at the Zagreb Open was dominated by Iran but it saw Oscar PINO (CUB) win the gold at 130kg, Tamas LEVAI (HUN) reach the final at 97kg and Mohammadali GERAEI (IRI) rolling back the years to win the 77kg gold among other things. The 10 finals of the Zagreb Open provided action and excitement.

Watch all the 10 Greco-Roman gold medal bouts here.

55kg: GOLD - Poya Soulat DAD MARZ (IRI) vs. Ikhtiyor BOTIROV (UZB)

60kg: GOLD - Mehdi MOHSEN NEJAD (IRI) vs. Nihat MAMMADLI (AZE)

63kg: GOLD - Aref Hossein Khoun MOHAMMADI (IRI) vs. Taleh MAMMADOV (AZE)

67kg: GOLD - HUSIYUETU (CHN) vs. Reza Mahdi ABBASI (IRI)

72kg: GOLD - Sajjad IMENTALABFOUMANI (IRI) vs. Selcuk CAN (TUR)

77kg: GOLD - Alexandrin GUTU (MDA) vs. Mohammadali GERAEI (IRI)

82kg: GOLD - Filip SACIC (CRO) vs. Alireza MOHMADIPIANI (IRI)

87kg: GOLD - Istvan TAKACS (HUN) vs. Naser ALIZADEH (IRI)

97kg: GOLD - Tamas LEVAI (HUN) vs. Kiril MILOV (BUL)

130kg: GOLD - Oscar PINO HINDS (CUB) vs. Oskar MARVIK (NOR)

#AmateurMMA, #Pankration

Novi Sad to host first-ever Amateur MMA World Championships

Friday, May 9, 2025 - 12:39 By United World Wrestling Press

CORSIER-SUR-VEVEY, Switzerland (May 8) -- The World Grappling and Amateur MMA Championships will be held in Novi Sad from October 15 to 19.

United World Wrestling will organize the World Grappling Championships on October 15 and 16 and the first-ever World Amateur MMA Championships from October 17 to 19 in Novi Sad, Serbia. Both these competition will be organized only in the senior category.

The Youth World Championships in Pankration, Amateur MMA and Grappling will also be organized by UWW in Greece. The dates for the Youth World Championships will be communicated later.

According to new structure, UWW will conduct Amateur MMA for U20 and Senior age-group while Pankration is limited to U17 and lower age-groups.

To test the revised ruleset, UWW will also conduct two international tournaments in all styles.

The first tournament will be held in Andijan, Uzbekistan from June 1 to 4. Grappling will be held in U17, U20 and Senior age-groups, Pankration in U17 and Amateur MMA in U20 and Senior age-groups.

The second international tournament will be held in Poland in June. The exact dates for the tournament will be communicated by UWW later.

For full list of events, refer to uww.org/events.