International kickboxing made its way to Slovakia with Simply The Best 16 Kosice held at Steel Arena on October 14. The event was the second show in the city following “Rebuy Stars Fight Night” presented in June. It is also the fourth “STB” series in the country with three episodes held in Poprad.
The program featured a series of kickboxing, boxing and MMA bouts, with one WKN title fight in MMA and two WKN title fights in K-1. The roster included top Slovakian athletes up against international opponents, representing Belarus, Egypt, Poland, Lithuania, France, Romania and Czech Republic.
The main fight of the evening and also the fight for the title of the international WKN champion up to 79.4 kg according to K-1 rules was a match of the Slovak mega star Vladimir "Dracula" Moravčík against Belarus Yuri Bessmertnem, who is currently the number one so it was a really difficult fight for the local hero Dracula. After an exciting battle the fight actually ended in draw.
The event was promoted by Petr Lamac. A charity campaign supporting Smile at Me association took place at the event. Complete results can be found below.
Fight Card
Kickboxing super middleweight Vladimir Moravcik vs. Yuri Bessmertny end in a draw
Kickboxing super heavyweight Tomas Mozny def. Ayman Hassanin via first-round knockout
MMA Super cruiserweight Pavol Langer def. Rokas Stambrauskas via unanimous decision
Kickboxing super heavyweight Georgij Fibich def. Valentin Bordianu via unanimous decision
Boxing super cruiserweight Radoslav Estoczin def. Mateusz Rybarski via unanimous decision
Kickboxing middleweight Pavol Garaj def. Matous Kohout via unanimous decision
Kickboxing super middleweight Bakari Tounkara def. Vladimir Idranyi via third-round KO
MMA welterweight Sergej Grecicho def. Miroslav Strbak via TKO R3
Kickboxing Super light heavyweight Adrian Valentin def. Vladislav Fostenko via unanimous decision
Kickboxing super welterweight Milan Pales def. Ruslan Kushnirenko via TKO R3
Boxing super bantamweight Martin Parlagi def. Krzysztof Rogowski via TKO R3
Kickboxing super welterweight Stefan Meszaros def. Martin Gano via decision
MMA super heavyweight Alexandr Cverna def. Kristof Nataska via TKO R2
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