fighting federation type private industry mixed martial arts promotion founded 2007 headquarters shanghai china key people joel resnick ceo website http www.ruffchina.com us ranik ultimate fighting federation ruff is the first chinese mixed martial arts mma organization sanctioned by the general administration of sport of china . the winners of the title fights will be crowned as the national mma champions of china in their respective weight classes . ruff held its first event in august 2011 in shanghai before presenting in chongqing hohhot nanjing and sanya . in february 2013 ruff awarded championship belts in five weight classes at their superfight event . together with the championship belt each winner was awarded 1 000 000 rmb . ruff along with mandt bros. productions produced and aired a 10 episode reality series ruff journey leading up to the superfight . a new episode will air each week and will be nationally televised across china 1 with tv viewership of over 30 million over 10 episodes . contents 1 background 2 current operations 3 weight divisions 4 2013 champions 5 list of events 6 references background edit founded in 2007 by businessmen joel resnick . from the outset fighter safety was of paramount importance to ruff . the company brought in well known and c.o.m.m.a.n.d certified referee jerin valel to officiate at all events and to train local referees and judges from ruff 1 8 ; and has continued its dedication to safety and fairness through training of referees and judges with the world s 1 referee herb dean . 2 on december 6 2010 ruff announced its partnership with china s wushu association of the general administration of sport allowing them to award national champions . ruff is the first organization with the ability to award the title of national champion in mma . 3 gaining credibility through their partnership with the government ruff was able to sign exclusive contracts with many of china s best fighters . in august 2011 ruff genesis was held in shanghai . ruff announced its partnership with the l.a. based mandt bros. productions company in january 2012 . 4 current operations edit on september 8 2012 ruff made headlines when ruff 5 was aired live on chinese tv . the event also played online on pptv and qq tencent 5 and garnered an audience of over 1.3 million viewers . it was also the first time a combat event was televised live in china . 5 ruff 4 was re broadcast in the days before ruff 5 and gained a total viewership of 4.25 million . having recently signed deals with satellite and regional broadcasters ruff s s continue to grow reaching 8 million viewer for ruff 7 and livestream s hitting 2 million views ; with a total potential audience of well over 1.3 billion . 6 ruff has also been featured on the internet programs such as mma inside the cage mma h.e.a.t and mmamadhouse . 7 weight divisions edit see also mixed martial arts weight classes flyweight 57 kg bantamweight 61 kg featherweight 66 kg lightweight 70 kg 2013 champions edit division weight limit champion since title defenses flyweight 125 lb 57 kg ; 8.9 st zhang meixuan february 2 2013 0 bantamweight 135 lb 61 kg ; 9.6 st irshaad sayed february 2 2013 0 featherweight 145 lb 66 kg ; 10.4 st wang guan february 2 2013 0 lightweight 155 lb 70 kg ; 11.1 st rodrigo caporal february 2 2013 0 list of events edit ruff event date venue city 1 ruff genesis august 27 2011 qizhong forest sports city arena shanghai china 2 ruff 2 december 17 2011 jiangnan sports center chongqing china 3 ruff 3 march 24 2012 chongqing indoor stadium chongqing china 4 ruff 4 june 30 2012 hohhot people s stadium hohhot china 5 ruff 5 september 8 2012 hohhot people s stadium hohhot china 6 ruff 6 november 3 2012 hohhot people s stadium hohhot china 7 ruff 7 december 22 2012 zifeng tower nanjing china 8 ruff super fight february 2 2013 hohhot people s stadium hohhot china 9 ruff 9 may 18 2013 mgm grand sanya sanya china 10 ruff 10 august 24 2013 hongkou indoor stadium shanghai china 11 ruff 11 november 30 2013 hongkou indoor stadium shanghai china 12 ruff 12 march 29 2014 hongkou indoor stadium shanghai china 13 ruff fu june 7 2014 hongkou indoor stadium shanghai china references edit ruff mmasucka february 2012 newsletter ijf blog ruff new combat sport to contend with china s traditional martial arts china travel mandt bros. gets ruff in the land of the dragon shanghai jan. 19 2012 prnewswire a b china mma ruff 5 garners near 1.3 million viewers ufc on fuel 6 why le vs. franklin may not be the gateway for the ufc into china bleacher report ruffchina ruff featured on mma inside the cage v t e professional mixed martial arts organizations asia oceania ex . japan current art of war afc brace one road fc sfl urcc defunct legend fc ruff brazil current jungle fight shooto brasil defunct ivc canada current hard knocks kotc canada mfc wsof canada defunct tfc europe current bamma bushido fc cage warriors ffc ksw m 1 mma raju r 1 respect.fc ucmma defunct 10th legion cage contender cage rage finnfight slamm japan current deep jewels igf pancrase rings rizin ff shooto vtj zst defunct cage force dream hero s pride fc risingon smackgirl src valkyrie united states current bellator cffc invicta fc kotc legacy fc rfa tpf titan fc ufc wsof xfc defunct amma affliction ef elitexc proelite ifl pfc shark fights strikeforce usa mma wec wfa category retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title ranik ultimate fighting federation & oldid 733265998 categories organizations established in 20072007 establishments in chinamixed martial arts organizations navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages edit links this page was last modified on 6 august 2016 at 15 44 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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