Impact Fighting Championships
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| Former type |
Private |
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| Industry |
MMA Promotion |
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| Founded |
July 2010 |
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| Founder(s) |
Andrew Mcmanus |
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| Defunct |
July 2012 |
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| Headquarters |
Sydney, Australia |
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| Key people |
Thomas Huggins - Co-Owner and event organizer |
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Impact Fighting Championships (Impact FC) was an Australian mixed martial arts (MMA) promotion. The promotion held two of three planned events in July 2010[1] featuring veteran fighters of Ultimate Fighting Championship and Pride Fighting Championships. Impact FC was financed by Australian concert promoter Andrew McManus[2] and Brazilian promoter Tom Huggins,[3] who helped promote Elite Xtreme Combat and Bitetti Combat.[4]
The promoters planned to put on three events in a single month in order gauge the interest of Australian fans to mixed martial arts.[1] The first event, held on 10 July 2010 was expected to have a crowd over 1000 in the arena and be broadcast to a world-wide audience of 2.5 million.[3] Following the second event controversy arose over payments to the fighters participating in the event.[5] The fighters had left the arena following the show and traveled home without being paid for the event, going against many boxing and MMA commissions rules. Some fighters did receive partial payments in later weeks, but many were reporting they had gone unpaid.[2][6]
