Last Saturday the action returned to the cage of Russian promotion Absolute Championship Berkut, as ACB 61 took place at Sibur Arena in St. Petersburg, Russia. The event had eleven fights of great quality, five of those bouts ended by KO/TKO, but there was one that was more impressive than the rest. It might actually be a contender for KO of the year when 2017 comes to an end.
In a featerweight fight, Kazkhstan’s Arman Ospanov took the highlight of the night as he put Taichi Nakajima to sleep in the second round. Ospanov was pressing the Japanese and taking him against the cage at the beginning of the round. It wouldn’t take him long to find an opening and finish the bout. Arman landed a magnificent wheel kick to the head of Nakajima and sent him against the cage first, then to the ground completely knocked out.
HOLY SHIT. Spinning hook kick KO by Arman Ospanov against Taichi Nakajima at #ACB61 pic.twitter.com/W2iXJKLqoq
— caposa (@Grabaka_Hitman) May 20, 2017
Here are the last moments of the fight from a different angle.
https://twitter.com/denis26rt/status/865973905860722689
| ACB 61 | |||||||
| Weight Class | Method | Round | Time | Notes | |||
| Featherweight 66 kg | Marat Balaev (c) | vs. | Adlan Bataev | Decision (split) | 5 | 5:00 | For the ACB Featherweight Championship. |
| Middleweight 84 kg | Alexey Butorin | def. | Nikola Dipchikov | TKO (punches) | 1 | 4:07 | |
| Welterweight 77 kg | Beslan Isaev | def. | Elvis Mutapcic | KO (punches) | 1 | 0:33 | |
| Welterweight 77 kg | Albert Tumenov | def. | Ismael de Jesus | KO (punch) | 1 | 0:46 | |
| Heavyweight 120 kg | Denis Smoldarev | def. | Tanner Boser | Decision (unanimous) | 3 | 5:00 | |
| Bantamweight 61 kg | Oleg Borisov | def. | Dukvaha Ostamirov | Decision (unanimous) | 3 | 5:00 | |
| Featherweight 65 kg | Arman Ospanov | def. | Taichi Nakajima | KO (wheel kick) | 2 | 1:35 | |
| Welterweight 77 kg | Aleksey Martynov | def. | Vasily Palok | Decision (unanimous) | 3 | 5:00 | |
| Featherweight 65 kg | Rustam Kerimov | def. | Tural Ragimov | KO (punches) | 1 | 0:22 | |
| Middleweight 84 kg | Mikhail Kolobegov | def. | Piotr Strus | Decision (split) | 3 | 5:00 | |
| Featherweight 65 kg | Luis Palomino | def. | Marcos Vinicius Schmitz | Decision (unanimous) | 3 | 5:00 | |
