IFMMA / UFR Officials Course in Dublin
Peter Lavery, UFR Ref/Judge who does a lot of work for Charidy but doesn’t like to talk about it… …is organising a course designed to recruit officials for upcoming and sanctioned MMA events in Ireland. A course is shortly to be held in the North and we’re now looking to hold a course in Dublin (here at Kokoro MMA).
Due to continued controversy over judges and referee’s calls, it is time to organise so that there is a pool of judges and referees to call on if needed.
At present there are less than 10 referees in the country and only five that are sanctioned to ref at a high level. The UFR have two refs that can officiate at title level fights.
There are only a handful of guys that will take the risk to act as Judges so the IFMMA and UFR are looking for more guys/girls to step up to the mark.
This is an officially sanctioned UFR/IFMMA course. It would be great if we could get a member from of the club (or even a couple of members) to sign up for the course and volunteer either as a ref or judge or both. Hopefully, bringing the course to Dublin will make it accessible to even more clubs and increase the pool of available officials.
The course will take place on a weekend soon (date to be confirmed).
If you’re interested; please email me directly at officials@mmaireland.com or let me know in training.
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About 9 names down for this so far from other clubs. Great stuff. Will be good to have a pool of refs/officials available. Members of the team should give this some thought.