Huge crowd seen in ultimate fighting tonite

It’ll be a war to end all wars as the country’s top mixed martial arts fighters battle for supremacy in the second Universal Reality Combat Championships (URCC) at the PhilSports Arena tonight.

Promoter Alvin Aguilar said tickets for P400, 350, and 250 are still available for the 17-bout show, headlined by Brazilian jiu-jitsu warriors Adre (Jacao) Bispo and Tony Torres, but they’re running out fast. A banner crowd is expected as tickets for P1,000, 700, and 500 were sold out three weeks ago.

The fights are sanctioned by the Games and Amusements Board (GAB) which approved the application of Aguilar’s organization the Philippine Association of Mixed Martial Arts (PAMM) to be under the supervision of the Boxing and Wrestling Division in a Board meeting last Wednesday.

Each fighter will be paid a P3,000 appearance fee. Winners will receive a P10,000 bonus apiece.

The bouts are scheduled for three rounds. The first round has a time limit of 10 minutes. The second and third rounds are set for five minutes each. There will be a two-minute rest period in between rounds.

The URCC will use modified "ultimate" fighting rules. The "ultimate" philosophy is what drives the URCC whose objective is to determine the superior combatant in all the martial arts disciplines-boxing, freestyle wrestling, judo, taekwondo, kungfu, pentjak-silat, karate, and the Filipino streetfighting styles of yaw-yan (sayaw ng kamatayan), sari-an (sariling pamamaraan), suntukaran todo bakbakan, and away kalye.