Bahrainthismonth.com 28 December 2023 The Brave Combat Federation stands as one of Bahrain’s greatest sporting achievements, becoming one of the biggest forces in the world of Mixed Martial Arts (MMA). This month, we sat down with Mohammed Shahid, the President of Brave, to find out the secrets behind its huge success. Could you talk about the history and background of Brave, as well as its major achievements and milestones? Brave was founded by HH Shaikh Khalid bin Hamad Al Khalifa in 2016, but the idea came much earlier from a love of MMA. In 2014, Shaikh Khalid decided to form the KHK MMA team which included some of the biggest superstars of the sport such as Khabib Nurmagomedov and Islam Makhachev, who is today the number one pound-for-pound fighter in the world. We took athletes from different parts of the world, combined them together and gave them the resources and support needed to raise their professional athletic profile to the level of football, tennis, cricket and any other sport you can think of. It worked because Bahrain is ranked as the number one team in the world today. It wasn’t enough to do this for 10 to 15 athletes, but rather we wanted to do it for 10,000 out there in the world. That was our vision and Brave was the media property we required to realise it, starting with our very first event on September 23, 2016. The rest is history, including two annual events in Bahrain and many more internationally including Europe. MMA REVOLUTIONISING interview
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