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Following the cancellation of almost all International Mixed Martial Arts Federation (IMMAF) tournaments in 2020, IMMAF has retrospectively frozen the points in its world amateur Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) rankings, for both athletes and national teams. IMMAF plans to resume its competitions in 2021, subject to the pandemic situation. Its president, Mr Kerrith Brown thus says it wishes to ensure fairness by carrying forward the value of ranking points when competitions resume, and so return bigger and stronger in 2021.
This is yet another demonstration of the significant disparities between sports in the management of this pandemic and its consequences for sporting rankings.