Famous kickboxer, former Glory welterweight champion Cedric Dumbe will soon make his debut in the UFC. According to sources close to the situation, Dumbe will perform at the UFC Fight Night 209 tournament, which will be held on September 3 in Paris. His opponent will be Derian Wicks.
Yesterday in Birmingham, USA, the Ukrainian team in Muay Thai completed its performance at the World Games. All 5 athletes of our team were able to win awards of various significance. Vladislav Mykytas from Kherson became the third in the weight category up to 57 kg, having won a bronze medal. The representative of Krivoy Rog Alexander Efimenko (71 kg) lost in the final to the representative of Thailand and became the silver medalist of the World Games.
The Ukrainian Muay Thai team continues its successful performance at the World Games. Last night, semi-final fights took place, according to the results of which four out of five of our athletes reached the final.
The national team of Ukraine continues to perform successfully at the World Games. Yesterday, the Thai boxing team of our country began its performances at this prestigious tournament. Five of our athletes successfully coped with the task and reached the semi-finals, which will be held today. The start of the semi-finals will be given at 22:00 Kyiv time. The semi-finals are as follows:
Today, the kickboxing tournament, which was held as part of the 2022 World Games, finished in Birmingham. The Ukrainian national team was represented at the tournament by 5 fighters, and all five were able to win medals.
Last night and this morning in Birmingham, USA there were ¼ and semi-finals in kickboxing, federation WAKO.
At the World Games, which will be held from July 7 to 17 in Birmingham, the WAKO kickboxing team of Ukraine will be represented in five weight categories.
The World Games will be held in Birmingham, USA from 7 to 17 July. At this tournament, competitions are held in those sports that are not included in the program of the Olympic Games. Therefore, the VI is often called the "Olympic Games among non-Olympic sports."
Almost immediately after the announcement of information that Glory had terminated contracts with kickboxers from Russia, it became known that the organization would fight for the already vacant light heavyweight champion belt. Luis Tavares and Lithuanian representative Sergey Masloboev will fight for the vacant title. This confrontation will take place on August 20 as part of the 81st Glory tournament.
One of the top promotions in the world of professional kickboxing, Glory, has decided to terminate the contractual obligations with three Russian kickboxers at once: Artem Vakhitov, Alexei Ulyanov and Dmitry Menshikov.
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