Octagon knows the new heavyweight champion! Neither Pirate nor Paradeiser allowed surprises. How did the other fights look like?

The OKTAGON 25 tournament offered an excellent spectacle and many great matches. In addition, we learned the name of the new heavyweight champion.

The tournament kicked off with Jakub Bahník’s fight with Israeli Ron Becker. It was expected that the fight would end in the first round and it did. After 48 seconds it was over as Bahnik won by TKO.

The second bout between Vaclav Holota and Daniel Hromek had to be decided by points judges. They determined Holota as the winner, but he failed the first round. He started to dominate only from the second, while Hromek gradually became tired and could not be as active as the winner of the fight.

Frantisek Fodor took the victory with absolute ease, managing to finish off Tomáš Fiala in the first round. The whole fight was fought in a stance where Fodor was confident, light on his feet and was able to hit his opponent perfectly and was able to send Fiala to the ground with a clean punch to the chin, which decided the fight.

Rizlen Zouak and Marta Waliczek provided the drama. While the Polish fighter had a clear advantage on significant strikes, the Moroccan threw her opponent to the ground often and tried to finish her on the ground several times until she threatened with an armbar at the end of the third round. Waliczek won on points, however.

On the bench for a change in the first round, Algerian wrestler Abdel Rahmane Driai managed to beat Zdenek Polívka on the submission, after an active start from both sides, taking him to the ground and forcing him to tap out with a kimura.

The prelims card was closed by a fight between Ronald Paradeiser and Arda Adas. The Slovakian wrestler tactically managed the whole match perfectly and dominated in all aspects, allowing his opponent practically nothing. Paradeiser won on points, but it was a clear victory.

Monika Chochlíková made her winning debut in the Octagon. The sympathetic Slovakian tried to be active in the match, her opponent tied her up in the clinches as much as possible and once delivered a takedown, but otherwise the match was mainly Chochlíková, who eventually won on points.

The Pirate also won on points. Al Matavao showed in the first round that he can put up a good fight in the standup, but once Samuel Kristofich took him to the ground in the second round, his biggest weakness was exposed. Therefore, the goal was to keep Al Matavao on the ground in the third round and the Slovakian fighter fulfilled it perfectly.

Bojan Velickovic’s duel with Emmanuel Dawa promised an interesting show and we more or less got it. However, the fight lasted one round, Velickovic won after Dawa was unable to enter the second round due to a leg injury. It should be mentioned that the Serbian’s great low-kicks gave Dawa problems throughout the round.

The anticipated match between Mark Bartel and Karol Rysavy offered a heated battle from the start. The first round was a see-saw affair, with most of it taking place on the ground and both fighters constantly switching positions and threatening submissions. The second round was dominated on the ground by Rysavy and although Bartl started the third round well in the stand-up, he unnecessarily took it to the ground where Rysavy was better and more dominant. Rysavy deservedly won on points.

The main heavyweight title fight of the night was won by Martin Buday and Kamil Minda. The Polish fighter was more accurate in the first round, as well as in the second one, before the Slovak hit Minda exactly in the nose, which caused the Pole a nasty pain, with which he was obviously unable to continue the fight, so he fell to the ground, where Buday had already reached for a TKO.

Source: Octagon MMA