Makhmud Muradov's Chaotic Comeback KO Headlines a Brutal Week on the Regional Circuit

Makhmud Muradov looked finished. At Oktagon 92 in the co-main event, Will Fleury appeared to knock the former UFC fighter out cold at the end of Round 1 — except the fight-ending shot landed clearly after the buzzer. That single detail rewrote the whole night.

Muradov, rattled and running on fumes, walked out for the second round and needed less than 20 seconds to flip it. An overhand right dropped Fleury, Muradov piled on, and referee Piotr Jarosz waved it off to hand Muradov the light heavyweight title. Fleury looked like he was starting to fire back when the stoppage came, so expect his corner to have opinions. Muradov himself isn't the type to apologize for it.

The Ugliest Finish of the Week

The most jaw-dropping knockout didn't come from a name most fans know. In an exchange with Jan Cieplowski, Reimison Saraiva simply dropped his hands mid-brawl and invited a beating. Maybe it was a feint gone wrong, maybe an earlier shot scrambled his wiring. Cieplowski answered with six unanswered haymakers flush on the jaw and put Saraiva flat on the canvas.

The stat line explains a lot. Saraiva carries 10 career losses, every one by first-round knockout or submission, and of his 14 wins, five have been flagged as questionable on Tapology. Read into that what you will. Either way, it's one of the nastier finishes of 2026.

Nine Seconds and a Flying Boot

Elsewhere on the Oktagon card, Ivan Klevets landed a filthy spinning kick knockout that would've stolen most nights. Over on UFC Fight Pass, Seyedmostafa Salehizadeh defended his Samourai MMA heavyweight belt in nine seconds flat — genuinely quicker than it took you to read this sentence. Given how thin the top of the heavyweight division looks right now, you could talk yourself into that being a pick'em fight against a UFC gatekeeper.

The rest of the regional slate delivered too: Deyan Galinov's left hook at Brave CF 107 in Burgas, a debut elbow from heavyweight Marllon Santos, Oton Jasse's head kick at Jungle Fight 153, and Weslley Alec front-kicking his way to a win — and a celebration — at Jungle Fight 154. Whatever your appetite for violence, the wilderness had something for you this week.