What is different from AFC 21 competition format Lion Championship and other MMA tournaments?
As a professional MMA tournament held in Korea Angel's Fighting Championship (Angel Martial Arts – AFC) brings together many international boxers to attend. AFC 21 is also the first event to be held outside the Korean territory. That helps many Vietnamese boxers first experience the international MMA competition.
Vietnamese boxers are subject
Of the 6 Vietnamese boxers competing at AFC 21, only the female athlete Nguyen Thi Thanh Truc won. In addition to the professional MMA competition experience is not as seasoned as rivals from Korea, Vietnamese boxers also suffer from an unexpected cause: the competition format.
According to the source of Thethao.vn, AFC applies the competition format very different from Vietnamese boxers who are familiar with Lion Championship and other MMA tournaments. Accordingly, AFC's competition formats help optimize the advantages of martial artists specializing in clenching objects and limit the striking fighter's blow.
More specifically, the AFC's competitive form has the following 2 remarkable points:
– Allow the use of HEEL, HOOK and Twist attacks (breaking the knee, breaking the heel, breaking the spine) in the grappling. In Vietnam, these locking techniques are dangerous techniques and banned from playing at the Vietnam MMA Championship Lion Championship.
Thanh Truc is the only Vietnamese boxer to win
The upper hand with her left eye has not healed from the match in Lion Championship
– Allow the elbows and pillows, but only used when hitting standing. Prohibit hitting the face and on the pillow when kneeling and lying. At MMA Vietnam, the boxer was beaten and on the pillow when kneeling and lying. Vietnamese boxers often use this technique to fight grappling.
Another noteworthy detail is that Vietnamese referees and fighters are only popular with AFC's different competition formats exactly 2 days before the game takes place. That makes Vietnamese boxers, who are in favor of striking (striking, punch, kick, poin, pillows) do not have time to adjust competition with rivals specializing in grappling.
In addition, boxers like Thanh Truc and Weekly played in Lion Championship, and has not had time to recover. For the aforementioned reasons, the fact that Vietnamese boxers do not have much victory at AFC 21 is predicted. They do not have much experience in MMA, which is more about fighting, having to match the format that brings many disadvantages for themselves.
