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Slamm Events
Company typePrivate
IndustryMartial arts promotion
FoundedMarch 19, 2006
FounderMilton Felter and Maikel Polanen
Headquarters
Key people
Milton Felter, President
Websitehttp://slamm.nl/

SLAMM!! Events was a Netherlands based mixed martial arts and thaiboxing promotion based in Almere, Netherlands. They organize their flagship "Nederland vs Thailand" series, a ten-hour marathon of mixed martial arts and kickboxing fights[1] as well as an international events in Spain, Belgium, Italy and Suriname[2]

Broadcast

The Slamm events are delayed broadcast to 52 countries on Eurosport[2]

Rules

MMA portion of the fights are conducted under different rules from the North American Unified Rules. Among the differences are the allowance of knees and stomps to the head of downed opponent. However elbows to the head and soccer kicks are prohibited. Muay Thai fights are conducted under full muay thai rules with elbows 5 X 3 rounds.

Events

As of SLAMM: Nederland vs. Thailand VII, which occurred May 27, 2012, there have been 17 SLAMM events held.

Notable fighters

References

  1. ^ "SLAMM!! "Nederland vs. Thailand IV" road report". Retrieved 2008-09-08.
  2. ^ a b "SLAMM!! OFFICIAL WEBSITE". Retrieved 2008-09-08. [dead link]