The MuayThai Premier League's (MPL) third event "Baptism by Fire" will be held in Hague, Netherlands on November 6th. The league bouts will once again be the focus of the event which will feature fighters such as Julie Kitchen, Yohan Lidon, Nieky Holzken, Ky Hollenbeck and Nathan Corbett. In addition two super fights will take place featuring two league fighters, Simon Marcus will take on Aussi and Marco Pique will take on Ali Gunyar.The league format works much like a soccer league. The fighters get 3 points for a KO win, 2 points for a decision win, 1 point for a draw and 0 points for a loss. There are two groups A and B, a fighter must fight everyone in their group once and then the two fighters with the highest totals in each group will face off with the winners of groups A and B then fighting in the finals. There are a total of five weight classes that are part of the league format and in the end a five champions will be crowned.
The MPL had previously announced the documentary series Into the Fire would be released in conjunction with their events. With the MPL's first event "Stars and Stripes" set to take place this Friday September 2nd in Long Beach, CA the first episode of Into the Fire titled "Baptism by Fire" is now available for viewing on the MPL's official facebook page.
