Fight of the night honours went to the fight between the Finn Mäntykivi and Russian Fedin. Both fighters landed shots, but what impressed me was the technique and violence of Mäntykivi in this fight. He hadn’t fought in more than a year, but he had been improving. Watching him fight I just thought to myself,
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The 2014 amateur world champion Jari Illikainen battled another tough grappler, Khongor Opinov from St. Petersburg, Russia. The fight quickly hit the mat and Opinov tried his best to secure a leglock. The tide turned and Illikainen secured an armbar and the fight was stopped. Opinov protested the stoppage, but the referee had made his
Jani Ridasmaa and Dmitri Berezin had a wild fight, no question about it. Towards the end of the first round Berezin almost knocked out Ridasmaa, but Ridasmaa came back to the second round like a man possessed. Berezin’s corner was eventually forced to throw in the towel after the barrage of punches Ridasmaa threw from
A huge support crew erupted when Jani Salmi entered the cage at Carelia Fight and once the hometown hero Aleksi Savolainen was announced the two support crews had a contest which one could cheer louder. I couldn’t pick a winner. But in the fight between these two there was a clear winner as Salmi TKO’d
Second pro bout at Carelia Fight was a contest between two lightweight fighters from Finland. This bout ended in the first round as Koivuniemi wa forced to tap to a tough fought RNC from Sinersaari.
Carelia Fight 11 was held this past saturday in Imatra, Finland. Juuso Halme and Timo Suihkonen had the honour to open the professional fight card for the evening. It was a tough contest for the two and a half minutes that it lasted. Eventually Halme connected with a nasty knee to Suihkonen who succumbed to
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