MMA - Mixed martial arts 1st Championship completed in Kazakhstan
ASTANA. August 26. KAZINFORM - Mixed martial arts (MMA) 1st Championship of Kazakhstan has completed in Astana yesterday.
Athletes from all over the country have shown high level of skills and organizers gave residents and visitors a truly beautiful evening of men's sport.
The first Kazakhstani champions became Sergey Morozov (up to 65.8 kg weight category ), a fighter from the Aktobe region, Dmitry Yermolayev (73 kg weight category) from Karaganda, Rashid Tugayev from Karaganda (up to 77 kg weight category), Kiril Yakimovich became champion within 84 kg weight category, Eugeniy Manshantsev from Aktobe (up to 93 kg weight category) and Sergey Zubkov,a Karaganda athlete, became MMA champion within 93 kg weight category.
However, Sergey Kleschin, an athlete from the West Kazakhstan region, by the decision of the sport event organizers was awarded a special prize called "Will-to-win spirit".