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MMA glossary

open weight

In karate as in judo, the open weight category brings together the best fighters in the world regardless of their weight class, and produces only one champion, with no weight category specified.

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Habirora and Mbarga, the Belgian phenoms in ITW + Diatta and Pinna

« the open weight, in karate like in judo, there is a category where whether you're 60 kg, 65, 70, all the best in the world can enter that category and one single champion comes out »

Christophe Pina · at 2:28:25
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