00:00When it comes to youth mixed martial arts mixed martial arts promoter Jason Fraser has high ambitions for the sport
00:06He qualified a team for the international mixed martial arts Federation world youth a championship in Abu Dhabi from August 4th to 11th
00:14Now he is working on the next step funding a traveling contingent includes
00:20Fraser
00:21coach Damani Adams featherweight athlete Moses Rampersad
00:26flyweight Yuri Mahabir
00:28Middleweight Orlando Charles as well as female flyweights Kayla Gonzalez and Alyssa Adams
00:34Coming out of the national championship that was held on June 15
00:39Trinidad and Tobago has finally select its team to represent us at the World Youth Championship in Abu Dhabi
00:45This team will be creating history as it is the first time that Trinidad and Tobago will be feeling a team at the World Championship
00:54Fraser indicated they have all the tickets, but they still need funding for hotel accommodation
01:00Accreditation uniforms as well as in-transit accommodation
01:04He added that this is the first youth MMA team that will attend the IMMAF World Youth
01:10Championships and they will be competing against over 1,000 athletes
01:15Youth MMA is very very young
01:18Internationally, it's a young sport. It's a building sport with the IMAP. So
01:22What we have here is is youths making history, this is history and
01:27Trinidad should get behind this team because many many years down the road. This is where it's this is where everybody's gonna remember
01:33This is where it all began. This is where it all started. So
01:37We expect we expect great things from this team and we expect that
01:41When they go out there and they compete whether they meddle they don't meddle they compete we expect that youth MMA
01:48To get a shot in the arm in Trinidad a boost
01:51So, you know people would come on board time is ticking down to support the team as they are set to travel on July
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01:59Sergio Dufour TV6 Sport
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