The Rennaise Laëtitia Blot was on display at the first MMA tournament organized in France on Thursday evening in Vitry-sur-Seine.
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GEOFFROY VAN DER HASSELT
She only stayed one minute and 29 seconds in the cage.
Enough to KO his Portuguese opponent Leonora Nascimento.
For the first MMA (mixed martial arts) competition organized in France, the Rennaise Laëtitia Blot did not do it in half-measure Thursday evening at the Palais des Sports in Vitry-sur-Seine.
Laetitia Blot wins quickly against Silvia Leonora Nascimento.
#MMAGP pic.twitter.com/vVbkBX1ejp
- Jean-Baptiste Maître (@j_b_maitre) October 8, 2020
At the end of the fight, the former judokate and wrestler let her joy explode under the eyes of the Minister for Sports Roxana Maracineanu.
In her tracks, Laëtitia Blot also lifted the minister by force of arms to the applause of the crowd.
The fighters are grateful to the minister @RoxaMaracineanu for having legalized MMA and some express it in a more demonstrative way than others ... Isn't it Laetitia Blot?
😏 #MMAGP pic.twitter.com/t3qC1yp4j8
- Ministry of Sports 🏠🧘♀️ (@Sports_gouv) October 8, 2020
Banned in France since 2016 and dragging a sulphurous reputation due to the violence of the fighting, the MMA had obtained the green light from the authorities at the beginning of the year.
"It's historic, MMA existed in practice but not in competition, we could see it on the Internet but it was not official," said the minister.
Today, it is and it makes a lot of fans and practitioners happy.
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