DARE Championship defies Thailand MMA ban
By Tripti Chaudhary
Despite the Sports Authority of Thailand (SAT) banning mixed martial arts (MMA), one of Bangkok’s DARE Championship Tournament executives has stated that the ban in 
Thailand implies no legal obligation towards the professional sport of mixed marital arts, and will continue the fighting events in Thailand.
Bangkok’s DARE Championship organizes fighting events of mixed martial arts, within Thailand. The DARE competition in Thailand started in June of 2011.
The MMA ban resulted with DARE Championship to temporarily cease organizing fighting events in Thailand.
“When the first time the news actually came out, it was a big surprise for the whole fast growing mixed martial arts and martial arts community in Thailand,” says Saloranta, one of the top executives of DARE Championship, in an interview with Eddie Goldman.
During this time, Soloranta stated that his organization looked into the legal framework of the banning announcement and concluded that there was no legal obligation towards MMA.
“There is a very clear regulation on Muay Thai and boxing in Thailand. But there is no regulation regarding other martial arts. And before we started with our first event, last June, our lawyers did the check up for the situation and they went through the legislation regarding martial arts and also the boxing laws and regulations that are applying; and there is no reference to a sport similar, or as mixed martial arts,” adds Saloranta.
Early April this year, the SAT banned MMA with the following explanation from the Deputy Governor Sakol Wannapong, “It (MMA) is against the 1999 boxing law. Organizing a MMA event here would hurt the image of Muay Thai. If you want to do this kind of business, you should do it in another country.”
With no legal obligation, DARE is back in operation underground in Thailand, with its rebrand of the fighting event titled, The Most Dangerous Gameshow.
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