Hayastan MMA Charlotte - Mixed Martial Arts

On March 21st, we sent four warriors into the cage coming up just short in almost all our fights. To start the night Matt Hooben fell short to a split decision the his kickboxing fight. No excuses, Matt had personal issues yet still went out like the warrior he is. Our 1st MMA warrior. Issac Yan lost a majority decision to a fighter who did not make weight. Despite the disparity, Yan agreed to the fight and came away unscathed, battling from every position and in our opinion was the more active fighter. In our second MMA fight, Almighty David Harrison landed powerful shots and held his opponent to the cage for the majority of three rounds, offering heavy pressure, great clinch work and take down defense. Somehow the judges awarded us only a split decision, however we will take and earned win over a misjudged loss any day. Finally in his pro debut, Martial Attitso was an absolute warrior. Martial was the better striker and landed a beautiful throw in the first round vs a heavy grappler. Each round found his opponent getting on top and neutralizing Attitso's position. At the end of each round we ended up on top or striking. At the end of the fight, Martial looked like he had just worked out, whereas his opponent looked like he was in a fight. Again, we were handed a split decision loss, our this split dec of the night. While we always strive for victory, we strive even more to give our fighters a chance to live their dream. No fight is ever perfect and we learn from every fight. We have always said, this sport is a game of inches. Missing our windows of opportunities can dictate any person's opinion if it comes to it. We will always learn, win or lose and our fighters will come back stronger.

As we ring in the new year, as usual we remember our good friend and founder Paul Booe Memorial whos birthday was on the 1st and without we would not be here. We pushed our fight team in 2025 thru numerous obstacles, making sure they tested themselves against the toughest opponents we could find. We fought all over over the country including but not limited to NY, VA, CA, NV, SC, PA, TN. Not every fight went our way, but we showed resilience and perseverance every time making sure to treat each opportunity as a learning experience. As a gym, we opened our doors officially for open mats and made many friends with other local gyms, preserving and setting the bar for the NC/SC MMA community. The later half of the year our pro membership grew with debuts and returning gym members. We also had our first international team trip taking a handful of members to train in both Thailand and Japan. On our kids side, we had tons of success in grappling and striking and even had our first under 18 MMA match the last event of the year, which we were victorious. We are excited for what 2026 will bring and thank everyone for sharing in our success!

Greetings,

This week we will be closed Thursday and Friday for Thanksgiving. Please join us Saturday for open mat and MMA sparring.

All weighed in and ready to go. Tomorrow night it goes down in Albuquerque, NM.

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Another fight team/open mat session for the books ✅

Thank you for everybody who showed up and trained with us, glad we can all train and grow stronger together!

Don’t forget to support fighting September 19th in Atlanta Georgia, fighting September 26th in Grady Kentucky and Troy fighting September 26th in San Diego

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Our 6:30pm bootcamp will be outside today. Please have proper footwear to participate.