{"id":361198,"date":"2025-12-22T07:01:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T07:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/361198\/"},"modified":"2025-12-22T07:01:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T07:01:11","slug":"baku-hosts-exciting-mma-tournament-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/361198\/","title":{"rendered":"Baku hosts exciting MMA Tournament [PHOTOS]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/laman.jpg\" alt=\"Laman Ismayilova\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The Zeyd Fighting Center has hosted an MMA tournament at the<br \/>\nSarhadchi Sports Complex, held in honor of President Ilham Aliyev&#8217;s<br \/>\nbirthday, Azernews reports.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at the event, President of the Zeyd Fighting Center<br \/>\nEmin Aliyev highlighted that Baku has been named the world capital<br \/>\nof sports for 2026, reflecting the country\u2019s leadership and strong<br \/>\nsupport for athletic development.<\/p>\n<p>Aliyev also recognized contributions to sports development,<br \/>\nawarding Vugar Ahmadov, President of the Azerbaijan Canoe and<br \/>\nRowing Federation. He expressed his gratitude to Ali Asgarov,<br \/>\nfounder of the Zeyd Fighting Center, and Azad Asgarov, President of<br \/>\nthe MMA and Grappling Federation, for their significant support in<br \/>\norganizing the tournament.<\/p>\n<p>National Assembly deputies Fazil Mustafa and Vugar Iskandarov<br \/>\nstressed the vital role of sports in national development,<br \/>\nparticularly in promoting the physical and moral growth of young<br \/>\npeople.<\/p>\n<p>The tournament featured 22 athletes competing in 11 matches. At<br \/>\nthe conclusion, participants received cash prizes, while the<br \/>\nchampion was honored with a trophy and additional awards.<\/p>\n<p>        &#13;<\/p>\n<p>Here we are to serve you with news right now. It does not cost much, but worth your attention.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Choose to support open, independent, quality journalism and subscribe on a monthly basis.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>By subscribing to our online newspaper, you can have full digital access to all news, analysis, and much more.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe&#13;\n            <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>You can also follow AzerNEWS on Twitter <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AzerNewsAz\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #fff;\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">@AzerNewsAz<\/a> or Facebook <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/profile.php?id=100064196822443\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #fff;\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">@AzerNewsNewspaper<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Thank you!<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n        <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Zeyd Fighting Center has hosted an MMA tournament at the Sarhadchi Sports Complex, held in honor of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":361199,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[10009,3930,10011,10007,879,161,49,48,4189,46,641,10010,638,10008,714,10006,82,3848,883],"class_list":["post-361198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-analytics","tag-azerbaijan","tag-azernews","tag-baku","tag-breaking-news","tag-business-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-company-news","tag-economy","tag-fighting","tag-financial-news","tag-mma","tag-oil-and-gas-news","tag-politics","tag-socar","tag-sports","tag-turkey","tag-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=361198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361198\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/361199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=361198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=361198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=361198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}