Central European promotion Oktagon MMA will shut the yr with their annual present on the twenty ninth of December on the O2 area in Prague. This yr, the group reaches occasion quantity sixty-five, which is host to 3 title fights: Lucie Pudilová vs Lucia Szabová for the vacant girls’s bantamweight title, Will Fleury challenges Karlos ‘Terminator’ Vemola for his mild heavyweight crown, and Ronald Paradeiser takes on Losene Keita within the TipSport Gamechanger remaining and a rematch for the light-weight crown.
TipSport Gamechanger Remaining: Ronald Paradeiser vs Losene Keita.
This yr, the Czech betting firm TipSport got here in entrance of the cash for simply the second-ever ‘Gamechanger’ match with Oktagon MMA. This time it was the lightweights flip, after ten lengthy months and a few gruelling battles alongside the best way it’s the present light-weight champion Ronald ‘Rony’ Paradeiser(21-8) and Losene ‘The Black Panther’ Keita(15-1) within the remaining for 300 thousand euros. The championship contest will likely be a rematch from February 2022, the place it was Keita who walked away with a unanimous choice victory after 5 hard-fought rounds for the interim title at 155lbs.
For the reason that first meeting virtually three years in the past, ‘Rony’ has had ten fights, shedding one instantly after the Keita defeat, however has since gone on a nine-fight profitable streak, selecting up the light-weight title alongside the best way when he avenged his defeat to Ivan Buchinger at Oktagon 50.
In distinction, Keita, first gained the light-weight title instantly after the primary battle with Rony, he then vacated the belt and went onto win the featherweight title in opposition to Jakub Tichota at Oktagon 42. He stays champion at 145lbs however was allowed to enter this yr’s gamechanger and has since collected seven extra wins on his path to assembly Paradeiser once more.
Vemola vs Fleury – A Grudge Match For Mild Heavyweight Gold.
Will Fleury (13-3) heads into Sunday night’s championship battle filled with confidence that he’ll have the ability to dispatch Czech MMA legend Karlos Vemola(37-8) within the first spherical and says he will likely be genuinely disenchanted if that doesn’t occur. The champion, Vemola, says he goals to take the Irishman into deep waters and make him not wish to be there.
Fleury appears to settle an outdated rating after ‘The Terminator’ precipitated him an harm throughout a sparring session a number of years again. Vemola appears to close the talkative Irishman up as he’s conscious he’s the principle menace to his mild heavyweight crown after dispatching quantity one-ranked Pavol Langer in simply 71 seconds.
Fleury heads into the competition on a two battle win streak underneath the Oktagon MMA banner together with his most up-to-date win coming at Oktagon 62 in October, Vemola is available in on the again of a win over Attila Vegh at Okatgon 58 in June. Nonetheless, he did lose by beautiful knockout in opposition to Samuel ‘Pirat’ Krištofič on twenty ninth December final yr at Prague’s o2 area, and Fleury is hoping that lightning strikes twice in the identical place! An intense build-up and a box-office face-off have set the tone for a colossal mild heavyweight title battle!
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Lucie Pudilová vs Lucia Szabová For Bantamweight Supremacy.
Unbeaten Szabová(8-0) got here into the promotion by means of the Oktagon Problem sequence and has labored to a championship battle on the most important card of the calendar yr in opposition to UFC veteran Lucie Pudilová(15-10). The competition is the primary of the three title fights on the invoice and has earned its place in being there.
The Czechoslovakian Pudilová has greater than thrice the variety of fights Szabová, with eleven underneath the UFC banner. She’s been the space extra occasions than her opponent has stepped into the cage as an expert combined martial artist and can look to impose all that have on her Slovakian opponent. Who, in return, has gained her fights by way of some strategies: armbars, punches, kicks and wins in fights which have gone the space.
These all-action bantamweights will slug it out for the vacant gold as Oktagon MMA look to additional strengthen the ladies’s divisional rankings with high-calibre fighters which have utilized themselves within the UFC and different main combined martial arts promotions.
Jonas Mågård vs Igor Severino
Jonas Mågård(17-6) appears to finish the yr as he began it at Oktagon 52 in January with a press release win over Jack Cartwright. The Dane was then pencilled in to battle Felipe Lima for the bantamweight title in July, however the Brazilian acquired a late call-up from the UFC. Mågård has stated the promotion then tried to make a rematch with Cartwright for the now vacant belt, however the latter declined.
Up steps one other former UFC fighter, Igor Severino, who joins the Czech-based promotion seeking to set up himself with a few of Europe’s greatest. The Brazilian holds an 8-1 report and has considerably of some extent to show after developing quick on his one and solely UFC look after getting by means of Dana White’s Contender Collection.
World In Sport Interview With Jonas Mågård: Jonas Mågård: “I’m Gonna Keep Energetic, I’m In My Prime and Damage Free” – Mågård vs Severino Preview.
There are numerous extra mouth-watering match-ups on the Oktagon 65 card, such because the TipSport Gamechanger reserve battle involving the previous light-weight champion Mateusz Legierski(12-2) and Agy Sardari(18-5). Plus a extremely anticipated middleweight contest between Radovan Úškrt(8-5) and Daniel Schwindt(5-2) which joins the principle card. You possibly can watch all of the motion from Prague LIVE on DAZN within the UK from 6pm and on Oktagon.television in different territories.
Full Undercard.
R. Paradeiser vs. Losene Keita155 lbs
Karlos Vémola vs. Will Fleury205 lbs
Lucie Pudilová vs. Lucia Szabová135 lbs
Jonas Mågård vs. Igor Severino135 lbs
Radovan Úškrt vs. D. Schwindt185 lbs
M. Legierski vs. Agy Sardari155 lbs
Jakub Tichota vs. Ozan Aslaner155 lbs
C. Bolander vs. S. Luzar Smajić135 lbs
Marco Novák vs. Eemil Kurhela145 lbs
J. Batfalsky vs. D. Toporcer145 lbs
UPDATE: Lucia Szabová HAS WITHDRAWN FROM HER FIGHT WITH Pudilová THROUGH INJURY AND HAS BEEN REPLACED BY CECILIE BOLANDER
