Three Title Fights In One Night – Full Review

Three new champions have been topped at Prague’s o2 area on Saturday night as Belgian Losene Keita, Irishman Will Fleury and Norwegian Cecile Bolander all walked away with gold of their respective divisions. Rounding off an unbelievable yr for Europe’s record-breaking combined martial arts promotion.

The Pound For Pound Quantity One.

Losene Keita shocked followers as he completed ‘Rony’ Paradeiser in spherical quantity two of the Tipsport gamechanger remaining, strolling away 300 and 5 thousand euros richer after successful the efficiency of the evening bonus as he entered his twenty-seventh birthday. A second serving of their 2022 bout went the complete fifteen-minute distance in a detailed contest the place Keita simply pipped every spherical on all scorecards.

A yr of match MMA with 4 fights in 9 months was seemingly an excessive amount of on the physique for Paradeiser, who appeared much more torpid than the challenger to his throne as he made a determined try to shoot for takedowns, which isn’t part of his typical recreation. The birthday boy, Keita, was capable of capitalize, and after an enormous left hook landed, he wasted no time and jumped on the defending champion with a floor and pound. Giving referee Marc Goddard no different choice however to waive the competition.

When talking on what’s subsequent, the Oktagon MMA pound-for-pound quantity, one joked, “I’m going as much as middleweight for subsequent season gamechanger, I’ll combat Bolander for her title subsequent, I would like all of it, I’m double champ now, and no person can cease me!”

Will ‘F**king’ Fleury Turns into Oktagon’s First Irish Champion.

It’s been a really promising yr for Irish combined martial arts, seeing names rise to the cream of the crop, however none extra so than Will ‘F**king’ Fleury, who vowed to make a cost for the sunshine heavyweight title and declared struggle on Karlos Vemola’s again in February when he first signed with the organisation.

Steaming his approach by means of opposition this yr, he was allowed to problem ‘The Terminator’ for his crown and was assured that he would defeat the Czech MMA legend within the first spherical. Vemola had different plans, and though he was dominated, he confirmed the center of a real champion. There was a giant second within the third spherical when Fleury landed a left knee on the chin of the champion that had him stumbling throughout the cage and seemingly out on his ft.

Fleury requested the referee to step in to stop additional injury as he adopted it up with a number of kicks that simply wouldn’t put Vemola down. The Czech celebrity was nonetheless extremely pushed ahead, and moments later, he had his Irish opponent in a guillotine choke, however he couldn’t apply it with the intent he wanted.

Two extra brutal rounds ensued, and Fleury remained in management as he pushed by means of the unbelievable quantity of noise created for the hometown fighter. It was an unbelievable twenty-five minutes of motion the place Vemola walked away with super quantities of credibility, and Fleury walked away as the brand new gentle heavyweight champion.

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Choices For The New Champion.

The Irishman appeared for what may very well be subsequent no sooner after the combat had completed. Within the cage, part of group Vemola was Makhmud Muradov, who re-signed with Oktagon MMA earlier this yr after going 4-2-1NC within the UFC. The middleweight contender was most likely irritated that his teammate had simply been overwhelmed, so he talked his approach into a brief face-off with Fleury and opened the door to a potential match-up in 2025.

There may be additionally the opportunity of shifting as much as heavyweight as there’s a vacant belt there; nevertheless, getting into the gamechanger match at middleweight subsequent yr can be on the playing cards, and Fleury is aware of that will be essentially the most financially profitable if that chance have been to be offered to him.

In addition to choices on both aspect of his present division, he’s keen to face any problem to defend his belt. He has intentions of pushing for the primary Oktagon MMA present in Eire. After three fights all on away turf, on his strategy to turning into king of the 205lb class, he feels he deserves a championship homecoming.

New Ladies’s Bantamweight Champi0n.

Cecile Bolander was topped the brand new girls’s bantamweight champion after 5 gruelling rounds with Lucia Pudilova. Exhibiting her emotion within the cage post-fight, she described the combat recreation because the hardest sport on the earth and the way grateful she was to be given the chance. The Norwegian was as a consequence of combat on the undercard, however an harm to primary ranked Lucia Szabová, forcing her to withdraw from the title combat with Pudilova, allowed Bolander to run it again with Pudilova after their first combat in September.

Mågård Falls Brief Towards ‘The Hannibal’.

Jonas Mågård misplaced by a razor-thin break up determination in opposition to Igor Severino in what proved to be the largest shock of the night. Mågård was supplied to combat for the bantamweight championship belt in opposition to Jack Cartwright in a extremely sought-after rematch. Nonetheless, with the latter declining a number of instances, the Dane needed to remain lively and take one other problem with a world opponent. Talking with World In Sport publish combat he mentioned “It was a detailed combat, I misplaced on an opinion I assumed I bought it[the decision] but it surely’s my fault for leaving it to the judges. That’s what occurs generally, he was , powerful child[Severino] and I felt like his scramble shocked me somewhat bit however I shocked myself with my efficiency and will of pushed for it[the win] extra.”