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Blow for the Oktagon! Tipsport Gamechanger favourite injured, Losene Keita misses the first round. Fans can decide his future
Just under a month to go until the start of the second year of the Tipsport Gamechanger project. Oktagon has been working hard for a long time to have Losene Keita, the champion and one of the biggest stars, start. He has managed to convince him, but injuries are now preventing his participation. The fans will decide his future.
Just under a month to go until the start of the second year of the Tipsport Gamechanger project. Oktagon has been working hard for a long time to have Losene Keita, the champion and one of the biggest stars, start. He has managed to convince him, but injuries are now preventing his participation. The fans will decide his future.
Losene Keita came to the Oktagon as an unknown talent. But he quickly became a phenomenon and a terror. He went on to become champion in two weight classes. Defeating one opponent after another. His only defeat is due to injury.
Losene Keita came into the Oktagon as an unknown talent. But he quickly became a phenomenon and a terror. He managed to become champion in two weight classes. Defeating one opponent after another. His only defeat is due to injury.
He is currently the king of the featherweight division, but when Oktagon announced that the second edition of Tipsport Gamechanger would be held and that it would feature lightweight stars, fans hoped for one thing. Black Panther’s participation.
Probably the most popular foreigner among Czechoslovakian fans so far had a difficult decision to make. All the organizations in the world are after him, he is the featherweight king, Tipsport Gamechanger could have been a big risk for him.
But in the end, he high-fived the Oktagon, signing a new exclusive contract that doesn’t just involve the million-dollar pyramid, but fights in the organization in general. The announcement of the great news also got a special presentation.
Less than a month before the start of Tipsport Gamechanger, however, the organization announced some unpleasant news.
Losene Keita is injured, the fans will decide his future
On Monday afternoon, February 5, Oktagon broke the bad news to fans via social media. Losene Keita was injured. Specifically, he injured his leg, and it is the same leg he injured in his duel with Mate Sanikidze.
So the first round of the Tipsport Gamechanger will pass the featherweight champion by. His future will now be decided by the fans. In fact, directly on the Tipsport Gamechanger website, Oktagon is letting fans vote on whether they want Black Panther to join the later stages of the project when he recovers.
“Hope dies last and now it’s in the hands of you, the fans. Now you can also decide if he will continue in the European MMA Champions League in one of the other tournaments where his fight could be moved. Show us if you’re behind him,” reads the Oktagon post.