Creator of the UFC, Bob Meyrowitz, is starting a brand new fight organization called Yamma Pit Fighting or YPF.

The league will feature tournament style events requiring competitors to fight at least twice per night. It will be similar to the early UFC tournaments that are slowly making a comeback. Strikeforce is one of the first to bring back tournament style fighting and has promised future tournament style events in 2008.

The interesting thing about the new organization is that actual fighting surface will different. The surface, called "The Yamma", is designed to keep the fight more exciting and explosive.

The YPF surface, known as "The YAMMA" is an evolution of the traditional fighting ring that will greatly alter the current basis of MMA by changing how the fight is fought and the strategy the fighters must use to win. This new surface has been specifically designed to keep the fighting more explosive and continuous. The YAMMA will change the face of the sport and will challenge the relevance of the fighters’ trademark tactics, as methods that were previously successful may be rendered useless with the new ring. This twist on an already successful sport will prove hugely popular with fighters and MMA audiences alike.

This sounds very intriguing. MMAjunkie threw out the idea of a moving surface. For instance a surface that uses hydraulics similar to the one on the new Gladiators show. It could also be a surface that has rebound so fighters could do jump kicks etc. Or maybe just a rotating surface. Whatever the surface turns out to be, the organization believes that it will help them penetrate the market.

“It’s with great excitement that we launch YAMMA Pit Fighting,” Meyrowitz stated. “Our deep and proven knowledge of the entertainment and MMA spheres put us in a great position to add a new dimension to the presentation of MMA as it moves into the future.“

Bob Meyrowitz was the original creator of the UFC but at the time he made the mistake of marketing the violence of the sport which eventually led to its downfall. When the organization was on the verge of bankruptcy, Dana White proposed that his two friends Frank and Lorenzo Fertitta purchase it. They did and the rest is history.

Things are really getting exciting for the sport of mma as it grows and spreads all over the world. I can’t wait to see what this new surface turns out to be. I will let you know as soon as YPF announces it.

The first YAMMA Pit Fighting event will be taking place on April 11 at the Trump Taj Majal in Atlantic City, NJ.