The FNC 26 event was held on Saturday at SC Morača in Podgorica, and in the main match of the evening, Miloš Janičić celebrated in front of the home crowd against Alex Oliveira.
Currently the biggest regional star Miloš ‘Cobra’ Janicic (28, 19-3) won by knockout in in the first round against the UFC veteran Alex ‘Cowboy’ Oliveira (For the first time in his career, Miljan Zdravković (26, 10-0) defended his title in an extremely demanding match against the experienced Canadian Josh Hill (39, 23-8). After all five rounds, the judges decided that the Serbian fighter is still the champion of the FNC bantam category.
They opened the evening with victories Dalibor Dragojevic (21, 4-0), Milenko Stamatović (31, 6-0) i Ilija Brkan (23, 5-3). In the welterweight division, domestic fighter Dragojević welcomed the returnee to the FNC cage, Selver Mahmić (28, 2-2). From the first moment, ‘Mugiwara’ dominated, the fighter from Maglaj could not find the distance, he was constantly failing Mahmić’s punches, and the Montenegrin fighter took advantage of that. The Montenegrin built the match perfectly for three rounds and finally ended it all with an anaconda choke for an eruption of enthusiasm in Morača Hall.
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Everything continued in in a great tone for the home fanswhen Milenko Stamatović knocked down Jozef Jaloviar (35, 5-5) with the first blow, then took a dominant position on the ground floor and built the match until the moment when he ends everything with strong blows, and the referee interrupts and gives the victory to the local fighter, who celebrated it wildly. The local fans were hoping for a 3/3 in the prelims, but that didn’t happen.
Namely, the favorite of the local audience Aleksandar Mihailović (27, 5-3) he failed impose his game, Ilija Brkan did a great job and kept him at a distance, and when he needed to, he knocked him down and hit him well with his elbows. He opened it and was the better fighter representative of Zagreb’s American Top Team until the end of the match and celebrated with a unanimous decision of the judges. After an unexpected defeat in Ljubljana, Tomislav ‘Gegan’ Sičaja (27, 6-1) came back in the best possible way and played a good three rounds, not giving Zoran Šolaja (34, 3-4) a chance to threaten him. In the end, the fighter from Zagreb’s American Top Team won with a unanimous decision of the judges.
We watched and the best match in the history of women’s regional MMA-and top three rounds. One went to the side of each fighter, and one uncertain round was given by the two judges to Sara Luzar Smajić (29, 6-3), who was better than Ivan Petrović (31, 7-4). The home audience was eagerly awaiting the performance of the brave Luke Bubanje (19, 0-1) who agreed to enter the match against Stefan Dobrijević (21, 11-2) in ultimate kickboxing, and after a good performance he still had to admit defeat to Bubanj because the fighter from Bosnia and Herzegovina knocked him out in the second round.
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The return was long awaited Ahmed Vila (29, 12-7-1) to the regional scene, more precisely to the cage of the best MMA promotion in Southeast Europe, but it did not go well for him. No one has knocked him out for nine years, and now Luka Giorgadze (25, 11-2) has done it and announced his quest for the featherweight title. There was a big shock in the hall when Artur Sowinski (38, 1-0) knocked out the absolute legend of the regional martial arts scene Vasu Bakočević (36, 5-2) after only 52 seconds, it was announced on the official website of FNC.
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Milos Janicic def. Alex Oliveira via TKO (punches) R1, 01:50
Miljan Zdravkovic def. Josh Hill via UD R5, 25:00
Artur Sowinski def. Vaso Bakocevic via KO (punch) R1, 0:52
Luka Giorgadze def. Ahmed Vila via TKO (punches) R2, 3:20
Stefan Dobrijevic def. Luka Bubanja via KO (punch) R2, 2:32
Sara Luzar Smajic def. Ivana Petrovic via SD R3, 15:00
Tomislav Sicaja def. Zoran Solaja via UD R3, 15:00
Ilija Brkan def. Aleksandar Mihailovic via UD R3, 15:00
Milenko Stamatovic def. Jozef Jaloviar via TKO (punches) R1, 3:27
Dalibor Dragojevic def. Selver Mahmic via submission (anaconda choke) R3, 4:32
FNC 26: Tomislav Sičaja celebrated, the defeat of Ivana Petrović caused an avalanche of comments
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