FIGHT LEGION MALTA

This weekend Head Coach Karl Mifsud and Assistant Coach Enrico Manicaro were invited by the director of development for the IMMAF Mr Andrey Moshanov and President of Romanian MMA Federation Mr Amatto Zaharia for the Level 1 MMA Coaching and Youth MMA Coaching in Bucharest. They also had the opportunity to meet international referee Mr Scott Manhardt for the updated Judge module.

This was part of the Malta Mixed Martial Arts Association efforts and hard work to get MMA recognition and help standardize the Sport in Malta.

We are very excited to announce two new locations, Mosta and Pembroke. MMA sessions will be held in Mosta while BJJ sessions will be held in Pembroke.

As per the new COVID-19 restrictions all gyms are to be closed and no Sports activities are to be held. Because of this both the First event for the NO-GI Submission Only League and the Defend Yourself course are now postponed until further notice.

Congratulations and well done to our young warriors on there BJJ Grading today under our affiliation Fight Sport London.

Yesterday, Enrico was honoured to receive a recognition from the Mayor and the Local Council of his town Paola for his latest International result at the Europeans of Combat Wrestling which took place in Hungary last May, where he won the first place along side Karl Mifsud; and becoming the first two Maltese to win this honour. We are very thankful for this recognition, it shows that people are appreciating not just the results on their own, but also the sacrifices we do and the hard work we put in to be able to get such results and such thing will keep you going forward. Thanks everyone especially Paola's Local Council for this recognition.

On October 26th both Enrico Manicaro and Krasimir Kirov will be back in action.

Our long time student and assistant coach is finally forming his own club / team which is fully affiliated with Fight Legion Malta. Enrico has been our student since the beginning and an assistant coach of the team for the past 5 years.

Both Karl Mifsud and Enrico Manicaro won their respective categories and became the first Maltese to win the Europeans of Combat Wrestling.

6th April is a night to remember after a clean sheet to our team, three wins from three fights. We had Krasimir Kirov who won the fight by TKO in the first round, in less then one minute. We also had Enrico Manicaro who fought twice in this event as he was competing in a 4-men tournament; winning the first fight by a TKO in the first round and then winning the Final again by a TKO, to become the Champion of the First 4-men Tournament in Malta.

Our fighters "Enrico Manicaro" and "Krasimir Kirov" will be fighting in this event.

Our first female mma fighter, Krista Azzopardi wins her fight via TKO in the second round.

On 7th September both Enrico Manicaro and Krista Azzopardi will go to war in an MMA event in Malta.

Flag changed, Team is still the same. We are now part of the legendary Fight Sports Jiu-Jitsu under the great Cyborg. Luiz Manxinha Ribeiro leads, we follow ossss.

Enrico Manicaro and Krasimir Kirov will be fighting for the Featherweight and Welterweight Titles respectively in Scotland.

Congrats to Karl (Brown Belt) and Enrico (Purple Belt) on their belt promotion. A special thanks goes to our BJJ Head Coach, Luiz Manxinha Ribeiro for all his support and trust in all these years. We chose him and LFF because we believe they are the best and being part of Luiz army is an honour and a privilege. We had other offers but we don't fight for the best offer we fight for what we believe in, we are soldiers not mercenary. Osss.

Enrico did not get the result we all wanted but for sure he learned a lot against a very tough and experienced opponent in Chris Bungard.Making no excuses Bungard was the better man and Enrico fought like always with honour refusing to tap.

Both our main competitors Head Coach Karl Mifsud and Assistant Coach Enrico Manicaro won there fights via Submission, being the only two Maltese Fighters to win on the night.