Ultra Body Extreme, a New Combat Concept Born in Quilmes

Combat sports are having a great moment in all their formats, from established events and organizations like the UFC to smaller circuits. Today you can watch and access any type of martial competition, partly because streaming platforms have popularized the broadcasting of these events, with muay thai tournaments, sumo, MMA. The level of archival footage shared on these platforms and social media in recent years has also contributed.

When an art grows, forks and variations with novel concepts emerge. Thinking about these types of sports, we can name everything from more bizarre practices like medieval MMA combat or Lowkick tournaments (an extremely powerful technique also used in karate but popularized by muay thai, which you've surely seen in the movie Ong Bak).

Now, in the search for a new format, the Ultra Body Extreme Fighting Championship was born, with the distinctive feature of originating from our country, more precisely from Quilmes, Buenos Aires, with the goal of becoming an international competition.

From Quilmes to the world, the fighting spirit burns

A stadium with a capacity for 450 people at Entre Rios 350, in the Greater Buenos Aires city of Quilmes. A space that has long become one of the most important powerhouses in the country for developing fighters with world-class projection in martial arts competitions such as Kyokushinkai karate, kickboxing, and muay thai. Currently, fighters trained at this dojo compete in international tournaments across Europe, Japan, and the rest of the world with excellent results, even bringing home gold in several of those competitions.

Quilmes Dojo was founded in 2004 by Diego Gonzalez La Volpe, 5th Dan in Kyokushinkai karate, trainer at the famous Ihara Dojo Japan, winner of several international competitions, and also an advocate for the sport through his books. And the Dojo enters a new era with the founding of this new style of contact sport that will make its world debut this February, straight from the province of Buenos Aires.

Ultra Body Extreme is a new combat sport format that stems from the style and spirit of Kyokushinkai karate, where kicks are prohibited and only fists can be used. The combat is even bareknuckle, with bare fists, without any glove or hand wrap protection. Its rules are clear and effective: body strikes seeking a fight that prioritizes aggressiveness and endurance without putting fighters at risk, since contact to the head is not allowed.

A fight consists of two 2-minute rounds. If there is no KO, it is decided by judges' scoring, who take aggressiveness and strikes as the key criteria for awarding victory. So, as you can imagine, it is a very intense type of confrontation, always pushing forward, one that rewards the fighting spirit, effort, and martial passion.

The first edition will feature 16 fighters with international experience -- most of them Argentine champions from different disciplines -- and will include weight and gender categories. With this launch, the Ultra Body Extreme Fighting Championship aims to position itself as a global benchmark in combat sports, rescuing the essence of hand-to-hand combat with the authentic spirit of kyokushin.

The event is promoted by Kyokushinkai Argentina and the Argentine Association of Martial Arts, Combat Sports, and Fitness. It kicks off on Saturday, February 8th, marking the birth of a new era for fighters who seek to push their training, endurance, and legacy to the limit.