Brave 48 Fight Card

Next week’s BRAVE® CF 48 full fight card will showcase Arabian talent on a global platform

BRAVE® Combat Federation, the premier Mixed Martial Arts promotion founded by His Highness Sheikh Khaled bin Hamad Al Khalifa and based in the Kingdom of Bahrain, has announced the full fight card for next week’s edition, BRAVE® CF 48: Arabian Nights, which takes place at the Arad Fort, on March 18th.The event, which will be the second of four scheduled fight nights in Kombat Kingdom, will serve as a global platform for Arab MMA talent to audiences worldwide, from the biggest sports property in the Middle East.BRAVE® CF 48 will be headlined by a Lightweight showdown between French-Algerian powerhouse Yiles Djiroun, making his much-anticipated promotional debut, and Russia’s Abdul-Rakhman Makhazhiev. The co-main event of the evening will see the much-anticipated debut of Lebanese star Ahmed ‘’Shadow’’ Labban, as he takes on Serbia’s Nemanja Kovac. Another huge name in Lebanese MMA, Georges Eid, will compete against Olli Santalahti in a Catchweight of 77 kg. Bahrain’s Murtaza Talha returns to action against Cameron Meintjies while Mohammad Ghorabi takes on Eslam Abdul Baset at Middleweight. The younger brother of BRAVE® Combat Federation Middleweight World Champion Mohammed Fakhreddine, Hassan Fakhreddine will return to BRAVE® CF, taking on Eslam Mostafa Abdel Menem. BRAVE® CF 48 fight card Lightweight: Ylies Djiroun vs Abdul-Rakhman MakhazhievSuper Lightweight: Ahmed Labban VS Nemanja KovacCatchweight 77 kg: Georges Eid VS Olli SantalahtiBantamweight: Nkosi Ndebele VS Abdelmoumen MssaateCatchweight 88 kg: Murtaza Talha Ali VS Cameron MeintjiesCatchweight 58.5 kg: Michael Aljarouj VS Azat Maksum Featherweight: Yousif Ghrairi VS Hassan TalalSuper Lightweight: Omar El Dafrawy VS Abbas KhanCatchweight 88 kg: Hassan Fakhreddine VS Eslam Mostafa Abdel MenemMiddleweight: Mohamad Ghorabi VS Eslam Abdul BasetFeatherweight: Hussein Salem VS Sulaiman Al ModhyanCatchweight 59 kg: Issa Salem VS Maysara MohamedCatchweight 64 kg: Elias Nedir VS Ramyar LuqmanLightweight: Mohsen Mohammadseifi VS Bichi Zakaria