Russian mixed martial artist (MMA) Sergei Bilostenny teams up with American Tyrell Fortune on the bottom card of the Bellator 294 tournament in Honolulu.
The fight was completed in the first round: the judge disqualified the Russian for illegal blows to the back of the head.
It is worth noting that commentators and some experts considered this decision incomprehensible: some blows were clearly given to the back of the head, but this happens in many knockout series.
For Bilostenny, this was his Bellator debut. Before that, he had ten wins with two losses.
Earlier it was reported that the Russian fighter Alexander Shlemenko. to win Swiss representative Yasubei Enomoto at the main event of the kickboxing tournament held as part of the REN TV Fight Club in Moscow.
The fight lasted for three rounds and ended with a unanimous victory of the 38-year-old Russian. It was a rematch. In 2014, the athletes met in a duel according to MMA rules as part of the Fight Nights tournament. With the unanimous decision of the judges, the victory fell to Shlemenko.