Brave Combat Federation has released the full fight card for the eighteenth edition of the event taking place on November 16 at Khalifa Sports City in Isa Town.
Brave 18 will be held during the Brave International Combat Week 2018, the largest combat sports festival to be held in Asia. The fight card will feature three championship bouts alongside the joint promotion from WFCA 54.
The main event will feature Lucas Mineiro from Brazil defending the lightweight championship against Abdul Kareem Al Selwady from Palestine. The winner will be crowned as the undisputed champion of the lightweight division.
The co-main event will feature the bout between Abdul Rakhman Dudaev from Russia and Joe Taimanglo from Guam. Magomedrasul Khasbulaev from Russia will face Robert Emerson from the US in a featherweight bout.
Stephen Loman from the Philippines will defend his bantamweight championship against Felipe Efrain from Brazil.
Title
In the opening fight of the main card, the inaugural flyweight title will be contested between Marcel Adur from Brazil and Velimurad Alkhasov from Russia.
The undercard features seven bouts and multiple talent who came through the IMMAF developmental system.
Bahrain’s IMMAF medalist Hussain Ayyad will face Hassan Abo Ali from Egypt in a flyweight bout. Akhmed Sheraniev from Russia will face Antonio Carlos Ribeiro from Brazil in a featherweight bout.
Among the most awaited bouts will showcase the return of Luan Santiago from Brazil against Djamil Chan from the Netherlands in a lightweight bout. Chan currently holds the record for the fastest knockout in Brave Combat Federation.
Goyti Dazev from Kazakhstan will take on Vasiliy Kurochkin from Russia in a welterweight bout. Cian Cowley from SBG Ireland will face Hardeep Rai from the UK who trains at Jackson-Wink MMA in a catchweight bout.
Anzor Abdulkhozjaev from Russia will face Alexis Savvidis from Greece in a featherweight bout. In the opening bout of the night, 2017 IMMAF gold medalist, Benjamin Bennett will face Khamzat Chimaev from Sweden in a welterweight bout.
The fight night will be broadcasted live on Abu Dhabi Sports in the Middle East and North Africa.