6 September 2019
The first Roscongress Vladivostok Combat
Night international mixed martial arts tournament was held on 5 September in
Vladivostok as part of the sporting programme of the 5th Eastern
Economic Forum. The event was organized by Telesport Media and the
Roscongress Foundation.
Russian
Alexander Shlemenko lost on points to American Chris Honeycutt in the main
event of the evening. Shlemenko, two-time Grand Prix winner and multiple
champion of the American promoter Bellator, was considered the favourite in the
fight, which took place in the 84 kg and under weight class. But Honeycutt,
after withstanding an initial beating, managed to gain the upper hand in the
fight and knocked his opponent to the ground in all five rounds of the battle.
The victory was Honeycutt’s twelfth in 15 fights.
The
70 kg and under weight category featured battles among young fighters: Evgeny
Ryazanov and Ilya Tsigelnikov among men and Alexandra Radchenko and Lyubomira
Galkina among women. Ryazanov won inside the distance in the first match, while
the second fight ended in a draw.
Vladivostok
resident Grigory Sirenko lost to Armenian fighter Grigor Grigoryan in the 80 kg
and under category. In the heavier weight category, multiple Thai boxing world
champion Alexey Kudin from Belarus, who has won 25 victories in MMA, defeated
Dmitry Isachenko, another native of Primorye who has won numerous Russian
boxing tournaments.
A
complete broadcast of the tournament is available here.