Photo: URCC President Alvin Aguilar (middle) poses with the other fighters after the event’s Prodigy Progression Series press conference last Friday.
DIFFERENT mixed martial artists will earn a great opportunity to showcase their true worth as fighters when they fight for a huge cash prize and hopefully get a chance to reach the Universal Reality Combat Championship’s main roster in the Prodigy Progression Series (PPS).
The mixed martial arts fight series powered by the URCC headed by the Filipino MMA founding Father Alvin Aguilar was formally introduced to the media at the Dynasty Fight Club in Parañaque City last Friday.
Rene Catalan Jr., the son of former ONE Championship title contender and 2006 Doha Asian Games wushu sanda gold medalist Rene Catalan Sr., and Marvin Malunes were some of the fighters that attended the press conference.
Aguilar, the president of the URCC, confirmed that a total of P1 million prize pot is at stake in the MMA tournament series backed by Dynasty Fight Club owner Jun Lee.
“In this format, we’re going to make sure that we will be giving the highest payday ever in Philippine MMA history for all the winners,” URCC president Alvin Aguilar said.
The tournament final champion of each division will take home half of the pot, that is, PHP500,000, while the other finalist takes home PHP300,000 and the third placer will win PHP200,000. The date of the tournament’s finals will soon be announced.
“This will be a big life changer for our fighters.”
Lee praised URCC and Aguilar for a wonderful program for MMA fighters to sustain their livelihood and let their fighting career continue.
\According to Aguilar, are divided into four weight classes, the flyweight, bantamweight, featherweight, and lightweight categories.
The tournament is now ongoing every night starting 9 pm to 3 am.
Aside from the tournament’s final champions, the monthly champions starting in July will be rewarded with P300,000 for the first placer while the second placer earns P100,000 and the third placer gets P50,000.
While amateur rules will be applied in the PPS, Aguilar is looking at the possibility that the champions in the PPS will eventually get their first pro contracts in the URCC.
“We’re giving them very very good contracts,” Aguilar continued.
“Now, we promote a platform where it will become self-sustaining. All the fighters can benefit, we can give them good careers in MMA.”
All fights will be streamed live on the IWantTFC app, and Aguilar said talks are currently working on a national television deal.
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