Three new champions have been topped at Prague’s o2 enviornment 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 ultimate, strolling away 300 and 5 thousand euros richer after successful the efficiency of the night time bonus as he entered his twenty-seventh birthday. A second serving of their 2022 bout went the complete fifteen-minute distance in an in depth 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 regarded 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 ordinary 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 possibility 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 need all of it, I’m double champ now, and no one 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 battle on Karlos Vemola’s again in February when he first signed with the organisation.
Steaming his means by way 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 toes.
Fleury requested the referee to step in to forestall additional harm as he adopted it up with a number of kicks that simply wouldn’t put Vemola down. The Czech famous person 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 way 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 large quantities of credibility, and Fleury walked away as the brand new mild heavyweight champion.
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Choices For The New Champion.
The Irishman regarded for what could possibly be subsequent no sooner after the combat had completed. Within the cage, part of workforce 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 in all probability irritated that his teammate had simply been crushed, so he talked his means into a brief face-off with Fleury and opened the door to a doable match-up in 2025.
There’s additionally the opportunity of transferring as much as heavyweight as there’s a vacant belt there; nonetheless, getting into the gamechanger match at middleweight subsequent yr can be on the playing cards, and Fleury is aware of that may be probably 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 solution to changing into king of the 205lb class, he feels he deserves a championship homecoming.
New Girls’s Bantamweight Champi0n.
Cecile Bolander was topped the brand new ladies’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 attributable to 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 Quick In opposition to ‘The Hannibal’.
Jonas Mågård misplaced by a razor-thin cut up choice towards Igor Severino in what proved to be the most important shock of the night. Mågård was supplied to combat for the bantamweight championship belt towards Jack Cartwright in a extremely sought-after rematch. Nonetheless, with the latter declining a number of instances, the Dane needed to remain energetic and take one other problem with a world opponent. Talking with World In Sport submit combat he stated “It was an in depth combat, I misplaced on an opinion I believed I obtained it[the decision] but it surely’s my fault for leaving it to the judges. That’s what occurs typically, he was , powerful child[Severino] and I felt like his scramble shocked me a bit bit however I shocked myself with my efficiency and will of pushed for it[the win] extra.”
Full Undercard Outcomes:
W Losene Keita def R. Paradeiser L KO/TKO, 4:02 R2
W Will Fleury def Karlos Vémola L Unanimous Dec
W C. Bolander def Lucie Pudilová L Cut up Dec
W Igor Severino def Jonas Mågård L Cut up Dec
W D. Schwindt def Radovan Úškrt L KO/TKO, 2:23 R2
W Agy Sardari def Ognjen Dimić L Sub, 1:13 R2
W Ozan Aslaner def Jakub Tichota L Cut up Dec
W Marco Novák def Eemil Kurhela L Unanimous Dec
W Peter Gabal def Benny Bajrami L Unanimous Dec
WJ. Batfalsky def D. Toporcer L KO/TKO, 1:41 R1
