Muhammad Mokaev entered the Karate Fight pit for the primary time Friday in Dubai and stopped fellow MMA fighter Bolat Zamanbekov.
Mokaev fired off quite a lot of kicks to open issues up, alternating between calf kicks, physique kicks and head kicks, and adopted it up with a flying knee. Mokaev once more fired a flying knee that landed in spherical two, however the end got here with a push kick to the photo voltaic plexus.
Karate Fight 54 marked the third match for Mokaev since parting methods with the UFC in 2024. First, he misplaced a grappling match by way of cut up resolution to Rogerio Bontorim in October of that yr at ADXC, after which went again to MMA guidelines to choke out Joevincent So in beneath two minutes at Courageous CF.
With one other win on his fight sports activities file, Mokaev needs to proceed evolving as an athlete.
“I wanna compete as a lot as doable,” Mokaev mentioned after the match. “Ahmadullah, financially I’m doing good, however I simply need get expertise, get my purpose to turn out to be one of the best on the earth. There’s some bumps in my highway however it occurs. I made some errors, I’m nonetheless 24 years outdated, I’m nonetheless gonna make some errors extra, however it made who I’m right now. I turn out to be extra mentally stronger and bodily.”
Mokaev, who went 7-0 within the UFC with key wins over Manel Kape and Alex Perez, however was let go of the promotion as a consequence of out-of-the-cage points. He holds knowledgeable MMA file of 13-0, plus 23-0 in novice MMA bouts.
Zamanbekov got here up brief in each appearances beneath the ONE Championship banner for an total MMA file of 8-3.
