Cage 31 goes down September 19th at Helsinkiäs Kulttuuritalolla. Leading up to the event, some of the main athletes on the card, including Finns Anton Kuivanen, Suvi Salmimies, Janne “Jamba” Elonen-Kulmala, and Saku Heikkola had an open workout at the Casino Helsinki Sports Bar. MMAViking.com contributor Jarno Juutinen was there to capture the action. Juutinen
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Main event of the evening was a fight between two ladies in the bantamweight division. Hometown heroine Siiskonen battled Hungarian Melinda Fabian for three full rounds and the tightly contested fight was declared as a draw by the judges.
Ott Tõnissaar was originally scheduled to fight Antti Virtanen in the main event of the evening, but Virtanen had to pull out just two days before the contest. North Ireland’s Declan Larkin boarded the plane to Finland and took the fight on a very short notice. Tõnissaar quickly took Larkin down and worked on a tight armbar,
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,
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
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