#WrestleRome

WATCH: Matteo Pellicone 10 freestyle finals

Thursday, June 30, 2022 - 08:05 By Vinay Siwach

ROME, Italy (June) -- Freestyle at Matteo Pellicone saw Azerbaijan claim most of the gold medals at the Ranking Series event. Azerbaijan won four gold medals and Slovakia being the second-best with two gold. Turkey, Puerto Rico, Ukraine and Georgia managed to win a gold each in Rome.

Here are the 10 gold-medal bouts from the Matteo Pellicone Ranking Series event.

GOLD: 57kg - Horst LEHR (GER) vs. Aliabbas RZAZADE (AZE)

GOLD: 61kg - Andrii DZHELEP (UKR) vs. Recep TOPAL (TUR)

GOLD: 65kg - Erik ARUSHANIAN (UKR) vs. Sebastian RIVERA (PUR)

GOLD: 70kg - Joshgun AZIMOV (AZE) vs. Murad EVLOEV (AZE)

GOLD: 74kg - Turan BAYRAMOV (AZE) vs. Taimuraz SALKAZANOV (SVK)

GOLD: 79kg - Vasyl MYKHAILOV (UKR) vs. Iakub SHIKHDZHAMALOV (ROU)

GOLD: 86kg - Tarzan MAISURADZE (GEO) vs. Abubakr ABAKAROV (AZE)

GOLD: 92kg - Miriani MAISURADZE (GEO) vs. Osman NURMAGOMEDOV (AZE)

GOLD: 97kg - Givi MATCHARASHVILI (GEO) vs. Batyrbek TCAKULOV (SVK)

GOLD: 125kg - Geno PETRIASHVILI (GEO) vs. Robert BARAN (POL)

#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.