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Founded by Bashir Ahmad on Dec 2007.1
Bashir Ahmad founded the organization after being inspired by the early UFC events, Bashir Ahmad thought about bringing the sports of Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) to Pakistan. Having a background in different martial arts including Muay Thai, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and Boxing, which he studied in Thailand and United States respectively, he started giving free classes in his hometown to all the kids in the community during one of his visits to Pakistan in the winter of 2007.
He stated: "I left the States because I was not ready to join the race. I did not think that money was worth living in suburbia or spending 3 hours of my day in a car going to a job that felt meaningless. It was also because I was really into the whole 'promoting MMA in Pakistan' although at the time I had no idea where things would go."
Returning in the spring of 2008 he rented out a small apartment to start his very own MMA training gym in his home town calling it The Slaughter House, inside the makeshift gym were mats made out of tarp and carpet pads. His students were the same children he trained when he visited Pakistan in 2007. Others from the martial arts community took notice when he started showing Pride and UFC fights explaining MMA was the evolution of combat sports. This served as the first MMA training centre in the country, the gym ran till the spring of 2009 until Bashir Ahmad left his home town to promote MMA in the major cities of the country. "I rented this small place above a restaurant. It was a nasty, filthy restaurant. There was grease all over the floors. It was disgusting. I got it for fifty dollars a month and nicknamed the place 'The Slaughterhouse' because it was so filthy."
Later on as time progressed things became more concrete, with a proper gym opening up in Lahore, Pakistan, now known as Synergy MMA, the gym also serves as the headquarters for PAK MMA and is the epicentre for all major MMA activities in the country and is responsible for all the funding related to MMA PAK. Without support from the government and the martial arts community Mixed Martial Arts Pakistan has now managed to become one of the most prominent organizations in the Asian MMA scene.
Bashir Ahmad achieved an MMA fight record of 4 wins and 3 losses.
From Wikipedia’s article on Mixed Martial Arts Pakistan, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.4