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Join us as we cover Karate Combat 41, which is going on tonight (September 16th) from the Altos de Chavón in La Romana, Dominican Republic. UFC/MMA legends Georges St. Pierre and Bas Rutten will be on commentary detail, providing some audio for the nine scheduled bouts. This fight card is showcasing a bunch of native talent from the D.R. plus a couple of UFC veterans, and will be capped off by a Karate Combat bantamweight title fight. The fight card is scheduled to start at 6 p.m. ET.
Karate Combat’s bantamweight champion, Eoghan Chelmiah, is looking to defend his crown for the third time by taking on ‘The King’ Myrza-Bek Tebuev. After defending his belt in a rematch with Ilies Mardhi, Eoghan took a controversial split decision over Jesús Paucarcaja Lopez. From there it was supposed to be the Lopez rematch, but a botched weight cut from Jesús ended up in a canceled fight. Chelmiah has been waiting awhile to put in some work, and tonight he finally gets his chance.
The term ‘tough’ gets thrown around combat sports way too often. Calling a fighter ‘tough’ is right on par with saying that a heavyweight has knockout power. With that being said, Tebuev is in fact tough. The man suffered a cracked skull in one of his matches, and still walked away with the win. Like, what?? How does that even happen? Fully recovered from the fracture, Myrza-Bek steps in there tonight to try to win himself a world title.
Also on the KC 41 main card, longtime UFC mainstay, Sam Alvey, makes his Karate Combat debut against Brazil’s Adam Rosa. Alvey may have channeled his inner Daniel Cormier when stepping on scales, appearing to grab the towel while weighing in. The commission didn’t catch it, Alvey made 206, and the fight is officially on. Rosa will be giving up some size here, but does hold the edge in KC Pit experience.
Karate Combat 41 kicks off live tonight with prelims at 6:00 p.m. ET, and will melt right into the main card. The full event is available for free on the KC YouTube channel, as well as towards the bottom of this page.
Karate Combat 41 Full fight card results
Main card
- – Myrza-Bek Tebuev def. Eoghan Chelmiah by KO in round 1: Bantamweight Title
- – Tim Ha def. Deivis Ferreras by KO in round 1: Lightweight
- – Antônio Arroyo def. Reynaldo Acevedo by KO in round 2: Heavyweight
- – Jorge Perez def. Gabriele Cera by KO in round 1: Welterweight
- – Sam Alvey def. Adam Rosa by KO in round 1: Heavyweight
Prelims
- – Maximo Nunez def. Moulay Oudoud by decision: Bantamweight
- – Ana Villanueva def. Rafaela Bernardo by decision: Strawweight
- – Érica Santos def. Sarah Ait Ibrahim by decision: (W) Flyweight
- – Vinicius Bareta def. Antonio Molloy by KO in round 1: 165-pounds
Live streams
This entire event can be watched below for free, from Karate Combat’s YouTube accounts.
Disclosure: Karate Combat is covering the author’s travel expenses to this event.
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