BAHRAIN – A new open weight champion was crowned at Brave CF 29 as Russia’s Azamat Murzakanov took out Mohammad Fakhreddine in the first round Friday. Brave CF made its annual trip to Bahrain, holding its biggest event of the year at Khalifa Sports City Arena, where, for the first time in the organization’s history, a KHK open weight champion was crowned. In the semifinals, Murzakanov used his grappling to control kickboxer Guto Inocente over the course of two rounds to cruise to the finals. On the other side of the bracket, Fakhreddine set a brutal pace from the start, taking out Kleber Raimundo in Round 2 with brutal ground-and-pound. That set up the final between Murzakanov and Fakhreddine in the final fight of the evening. After pressuring forward, Murzakanov was able to drop Fakhreddine, swarming him with a flurry of punches
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