Kirill Sidelnikov makes his professional boxing debut at the Ural FC tournament in Perm
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The Ural FC League (Ural Fighting Championship) will hold its first professional boxing tournament on October 20 in Perm as part of the “Russia – a Sports Power” forum with the support of the Russian Boxing Federation. In the co-main fight of the grandiose international show, Russian Kirill Sidelnikov will enter the ring.
It was Sidelnikov who headlined the first Ural FC tournament in July 2022 in the same Perm. Then the Russian defeated the Brazilian Fabio Maldonado in a fight according to MMA rules. Now Sidelnikov will make his debut in professional boxing in a four-round heavyweight fight against the Dutch kickboxer of Moroccan origin Nidal Bikiri.
Sidelnikov is a six-time world champion and seven-time European champion in combat sambo. Our fighter has 14 victories and 7 defeats in mixed martial arts. Now the Russian athlete will try his hand at a new field – professional boxing.
Radmir Gabdullin, General Director of Ural FC:
– I am very glad that the titled fighter Kirill Sidelnikov will perform in one of the main fights of the Ural FC 4 tournament. Kirill, as a real athlete, is not used to sitting still, enjoying past achievements. While there was a pause in his MMA career, Sidelnikov took on a new challenge with great joy – to try himself in professional boxing.
In total, 11 countries will be represented at the international tournament Ural FC 4 – athletes from Iran, Morocco, Uzbekistan, Brazil, Belgium, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Ghana, Venezuela, the Netherlands and Russia will perform in Perm.
The show will be headlined on October 20 by a lightweight boxing match between 2020 Olympic champion Russian Albert Batyrgaziev and Venezuelan Ender Lutses.
As part of the Ural FC 4 tournament, there will also be kickboxing fights (according to K-1 rules), in which four kickboxers from Solikamsk will perform. Valery Bizyaev, Alexander Gelvikh, Sergey Ponomarev and Artem Shvetsov represent the Ural Kali Fighter team, whose partner is the Uralkali company.
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