@jaymccourtneymma & @joeoleary27_ with the relentless action in training @eiregrapple with coach @kierandavern1 ahead of our first event 🔥

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@jaymccourtneymma & @joeoleary27_ with the relentless action in training @eiregrapple with coach @kierandavern1 ahead of our first event 🔥 🚨 MIDLANDS COMBAT LEAGUE 1 🚨 More matches. More experience. More opportunities to develop. Midlands Combat League was created to give…

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@jaymccourtneymma & @joeoleary27_ with the relentless action in training @eiregrapple with coach @kierandavern1 ahead of our first event 🔥

🚨 MIDLANDS COMBAT LEAGUE 1 🚨

More matches. More experience. More opportunities to develop.

Midlands Combat League was created to give developing competitors something Irish combat sports needs more of: a safe, well-run grassroots competition where athletes can actually build experience before stepping onto bigger stages.

🥊 No-Headshots MMA
🤼 Submission Wrestling
👦 Kids
🔥 Teens
💪 Adults
🏆 Masters

Whether you’re preparing for your first competition or looking to sharpen your skills between major events, MCL is designed to get you meaningful competitive minutes against opponents matched as closely as possible by age, weight and experience.

Where possible, competitors will receive multiple matches, with round-robin formats used to maximise experience — because developing athletes need more than one match every few months.

📅 Saturday 10th October 2026
📍 Coláiste Choilm, Tullamore, Co. Offaly

🏅 Official MCL medals
🏆 Team awards
👊 Beginner, Intermediate & Advanced divisions
⚖️ Carefully matched divisions
🔥 MMA & Submission Wrestling on the same event

If you’re serious about improving your wrestling, grappling or MMA, you need competition experience, and this is exactly what Midlands Combat League is being built to provide.

Get registered on Smoothcomp and be part of MCL 1.

Compete. Learn. Improve. Repeat.

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There you go.
Nice shot.
Lovely.
Nice.
Oh, lovely, lovely.
Nice shot.
See it.
Back on the fence, back on the hand.
Set it up.
Good.
Back on his head now as well.
Back on his...
Oh, lovely.
Yeah, yeah.
There you have an attachment now.
Let's go.
You're connected.
Nice, Jay.
Good job.
Good.
Get top, get top.
Make it happen.
Make it happen.
No wall, Joe.
Stay away from the wall.
See it.
Good.
Yeah.
Try, try, try, try.
Lovely, yeah, yeah, go for it, go for it. Bring him behind, bring him behind. Or go
behind him, go behind him. Ah, lovely, let's go, let's go. Watch yourself, Jay, watch yourself.
10 seconds, let's go.