September 13, 2025 • 5 mins
Arsenal-X hits Eventfinda stadium in Auckland this weekend.
It is the only hybrid combat sport event in the country where fighters from MMA and Kickboxing meet. Each round the skillset changes with rounds being contested in boxing, kickboxing, Muay Thai, and MMA.
D'Arcy spoke with New Zealand heavyweight and one half of the main event, Dhcamad Armstrong, to discuss what a hybrid combat sport event actually is and preview his upcoming matchup.
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Speaker 1 (00:06):
You're listening to the All Sport Breakfast podcast with Darcy
Wildgrave from News Talk SEDB.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Main event is Bob de Karma is actually his name.
It gets called Bob Karmad Armstrong. He's going to take
on the Australian whos saying arid and the heavyweight bout.
He joins the show. Now, Hey the Karmad.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
Hey Darcy, how.
Speaker 4 (00:24):
Are you may?
Speaker 3 (00:25):
You're looking forward to today? Brother?
Speaker 2 (00:27):
You got a big fight coming up tonight. Arsenal X
What what is this?
Speaker 4 (00:31):
So arsenal X looking forward to it? Can't wait ready
and keen to get in there and have a rumble.
So it's a it's an event that is being created
by Jason Sutty.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
It's kind of like a hybrid style.
Speaker 4 (00:42):
Of fighting where there's a mixture of different martial arts
in the one fight. My fight, which is the main event.
Round and one is kickboxing, Round two is muy Thai
in round three is professional mma. So you get a
mixture of all styles of fighting martial arts in the
one fight.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
So how does that work? You have to start off
one style of one round, n style on another round,
or you do what you want to How does it
actually operate.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
Well exactly that, like you have to stick.
Speaker 4 (01:13):
To a coat of rules for round one, and then
coming into round two there's more that you can do,
and then round three for my fighters MMA, So it's
kind of anything not anything goes, but there's more weapons
that I can use in round three Round one, hands
and legs, Round two, hands, legs and these elbows round three.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
All of that plus the grappling side of things.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
Well for the uninitiated, that's a much better way of
describing it. People don't get the names of these different styles,
but that's at hands, feet, legs. Don't we know what
you're talking about. So for you, what are you doing?
Why are you involved in such an activity like this
arsenal X What what drags you into the Is it
a ring or an octagon or I don't know even
(02:00):
what you're fighting.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
In, so it's a cajuen octagon.
Speaker 5 (02:04):
And what dragged me into this or why I accepted
to jump into this event is because of what it is.
What I just explained, like, it's you're using all types
of styles in the one fight. So that kind of
interested me. It got me a bit excited. Rather than
just one style I get to use everything, round one,
two three.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
It's a big event. There are a lot of fights
going on. It's going to be a long, long night
for everybody. Concern how are you going to place yourself
doing that? But you just have one fight and that's it.
You don't come back for more, like maybe King and
the Ring back in the day.
Speaker 5 (02:41):
So the promoter, Jason Certy, he runs King in the Ring. Yeah,
this is kind of a new promotion that he's created
in memory of one of his close friends. But yeah,
actually it starts at five pm at the event. Find
a stadium and I believe there's about ten fights, so
it won't be a very very long night, maybe two
(03:03):
four hours max. So it's quite a solid show, solid promotion.
And the fighters that are fighting on the event, they're
all top level fighters from New Zealand and Australia.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
Who are you fighting?
Speaker 3 (03:17):
Ah?
Speaker 5 (03:17):
So, I to be honest, I don't even know how
to say his name, but Hussein or Hassan Arida from Australia,
So they've brought him over from Australia to compete against me.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
There are different weight classes right the way through this.
You're running very similar to to MMA or to boxing.
Speaker 5 (03:35):
There are weight classes, yes, but for me, we've agreed
on a weight which is no more than one hundred
and seven kigis so in which I'm pretty much sitting
at about one hundred and four, and I assume he
will come in around the same weight as me.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
Tell us about your history in the fight game. Where
do you come from? Where have you excelled?
Speaker 5 (03:54):
So I started my fight journey or life in Japan.
I lived there for eight years. I did seven years
of combat sports over there, but that's where I started
growing up here in New Zealand and cook I was
kind of.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
Put through the rugby scene.
Speaker 5 (04:07):
I originally went over to Japan to play rugby and
then after about a year I switched to martial arts
jiu jitsu.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
First, and then naturally got into MMA.
Speaker 5 (04:17):
So I did seventeen professional MMA fights over Japan, and
then about eight years ago I came home to New
Zealand and kind of just got into the scene here
in New Zealand.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
And my path has kind of gone.
Speaker 5 (04:29):
More towards the scene here in New Zealand. But I've
been kind of dabbled in the boxing the MMA, but
my main because I love to stand and bang, has
been the kickboxing scene.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
What's your form like of recent times? Where have you
been fighting? Have you been winning?
Speaker 3 (04:46):
Ah?
Speaker 5 (04:46):
Yeah, so that's kind of and I'm not saying this
in a private way, but there's a bit of a
buzz kind of around me because I have been winning,
and that's why they're bringing people from Australia.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
I thought a big salmon boy about a week.
Speaker 5 (04:59):
And a half ago in christ Church ONFL three Stuff
Fighters League three. I beat him, but before him, I
kind of not wiped out, but I beat all of
the top heavyweights kickboxes in New Zealand. So now they're
kind of bringing people from Australia for me to compete
against comid.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
What's on the line? Do you want a pile of money?
Do you advance up a rank?
Speaker 5 (05:20):
Well?
Speaker 2 (05:20):
Why are you doing this?
Speaker 3 (05:22):
Ah?
Speaker 5 (05:22):
So yeah, So why I'm doing this is because I
love to compete.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
I love fighting. I just love to fight. I think
it's just in me. I'm passionate about it. I enjoy
a good rumble scrap and of.
Speaker 5 (05:34):
Course we get paid while I get paid, so that's
a bonus. And yeah, my goal is just to keep
rumbling and of course trying to keep winning and just
fighting the best that New Zealand Australia has to offer,
and then just whatever comes my way and.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
I like it, I'll go for it one hundred percent.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
For more from the Your Sport Breakfast with Darcy Watergrave,
listen live to News Talk said V on Saturday mornings,
or follow the podcast on iHeartRadio
You're listening to the All Sport Breakfast podcast with Darcy
Wildgrave from News Talk SEDB.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Main event is Bob de Karma is actually his name.
It gets called Bob Karmad Armstrong. He's going to take
on the Australian whos saying arid and the heavyweight bout.
He joins the show. Now, Hey the Karmad.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
Hey Darcy, how.
Speaker 4 (00:24):
Are you may?
Speaker 3 (00:25):
You're looking forward to today? Brother?
Speaker 2 (00:27):
You got a big fight coming up tonight. Arsenal X
What what is this?
Speaker 4 (00:31):
So arsenal X looking forward to it? Can't wait ready
and keen to get in there and have a rumble.
So it's a it's an event that is being created
by Jason Sutty.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
It's kind of like a hybrid style.
Speaker 4 (00:42):
Of fighting where there's a mixture of different martial arts
in the one fight. My fight, which is the main event.
Round and one is kickboxing, Round two is muy Thai
in round three is professional mma. So you get a
mixture of all styles of fighting martial arts in the
one fight.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
So how does that work? You have to start off
one style of one round, n style on another round,
or you do what you want to How does it
actually operate.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
Well exactly that, like you have to stick.
Speaker 4 (01:13):
To a coat of rules for round one, and then
coming into round two there's more that you can do,
and then round three for my fighters MMA, So it's
kind of anything not anything goes, but there's more weapons
that I can use in round three Round one, hands
and legs, Round two, hands, legs and these elbows round three.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
All of that plus the grappling side of things.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
Well for the uninitiated, that's a much better way of
describing it. People don't get the names of these different styles,
but that's at hands, feet, legs. Don't we know what
you're talking about. So for you, what are you doing?
Why are you involved in such an activity like this
arsenal X What what drags you into the Is it
a ring or an octagon or I don't know even
(02:00):
what you're fighting.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
In, so it's a cajuen octagon.
Speaker 5 (02:04):
And what dragged me into this or why I accepted
to jump into this event is because of what it is.
What I just explained, like, it's you're using all types
of styles in the one fight. So that kind of
interested me. It got me a bit excited. Rather than
just one style I get to use everything, round one,
two three.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
It's a big event. There are a lot of fights
going on. It's going to be a long, long night
for everybody. Concern how are you going to place yourself
doing that? But you just have one fight and that's it.
You don't come back for more, like maybe King and
the Ring back in the day.
Speaker 5 (02:41):
So the promoter, Jason Certy, he runs King in the Ring. Yeah,
this is kind of a new promotion that he's created
in memory of one of his close friends. But yeah,
actually it starts at five pm at the event. Find
a stadium and I believe there's about ten fights, so
it won't be a very very long night, maybe two
(03:03):
four hours max. So it's quite a solid show, solid promotion.
And the fighters that are fighting on the event, they're
all top level fighters from New Zealand and Australia.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
Who are you fighting?
Speaker 3 (03:17):
Ah?
Speaker 5 (03:17):
So, I to be honest, I don't even know how
to say his name, but Hussein or Hassan Arida from Australia,
So they've brought him over from Australia to compete against me.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
There are different weight classes right the way through this.
You're running very similar to to MMA or to boxing.
Speaker 5 (03:35):
There are weight classes, yes, but for me, we've agreed
on a weight which is no more than one hundred
and seven kigis so in which I'm pretty much sitting
at about one hundred and four, and I assume he
will come in around the same weight as me.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
Tell us about your history in the fight game. Where
do you come from? Where have you excelled?
Speaker 5 (03:54):
So I started my fight journey or life in Japan.
I lived there for eight years. I did seven years
of combat sports over there, but that's where I started
growing up here in New Zealand and cook I was
kind of.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
Put through the rugby scene.
Speaker 5 (04:07):
I originally went over to Japan to play rugby and
then after about a year I switched to martial arts
jiu jitsu.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
First, and then naturally got into MMA.
Speaker 5 (04:17):
So I did seventeen professional MMA fights over Japan, and
then about eight years ago I came home to New
Zealand and kind of just got into the scene here
in New Zealand.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
And my path has kind of gone.
Speaker 5 (04:29):
More towards the scene here in New Zealand. But I've
been kind of dabbled in the boxing the MMA, but
my main because I love to stand and bang, has
been the kickboxing scene.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
What's your form like of recent times? Where have you
been fighting? Have you been winning?
Speaker 3 (04:46):
Ah?
Speaker 5 (04:46):
Yeah, so that's kind of and I'm not saying this
in a private way, but there's a bit of a
buzz kind of around me because I have been winning,
and that's why they're bringing people from Australia.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
I thought a big salmon boy about a week.
Speaker 5 (04:59):
And a half ago in christ Church ONFL three Stuff
Fighters League three. I beat him, but before him, I
kind of not wiped out, but I beat all of
the top heavyweights kickboxes in New Zealand. So now they're
kind of bringing people from Australia for me to compete
against comid.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
What's on the line? Do you want a pile of money?
Do you advance up a rank?
Speaker 5 (05:20):
Well?
Speaker 2 (05:20):
Why are you doing this?
Speaker 3 (05:22):
Ah?
Speaker 5 (05:22):
So yeah, So why I'm doing this is because I
love to compete.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
I love fighting. I just love to fight. I think
it's just in me. I'm passionate about it. I enjoy
a good rumble scrap and of.
Speaker 5 (05:34):
Course we get paid while I get paid, so that's
a bonus. And yeah, my goal is just to keep
rumbling and of course trying to keep winning and just
fighting the best that New Zealand Australia has to offer,
and then just whatever comes my way and.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
I like it, I'll go for it one hundred percent.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
For more from the Your Sport Breakfast with Darcy Watergrave,
listen live to News Talk said V on Saturday mornings,
or follow the podcast on iHeartRadio
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