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It's a working title, but this is a thread to post videos or clips when video isn't available of relevant prospects recent fights, outside of UFC and PFL. The sport is slow sometimes and this thread will be a continuation. Feel free to post and discuss footage of high promise prospects. And also pointing out upcoming fights that fit the criteria.


Flyweight: (UK) Lone'er Kavanagh 24 year old 6-0 pro (2-2-2 amateur) vs (Brazil) Shawn Marcos Da Silva 28 year old 6-0 pro (0-1 amateur)




Bantamweight: (Kyrgyzstan) Yryskeldi Duysheev 22 years old 10-0 pro 22 years old vs (Pakistan) Ismail Khan 22 years old 7-0 pro (13-1 amateur)



Flyweight: (Uzbekistan) Sanzhar Zakirov 21 years old 12-0 pro vs (Japan) Ryosuke Honda 33 years old 12-3-1 pro (1-0 amateur)



Flyweight: (Tajikistan) Muhammad Salohidinov 22 years old 2-0 pro (14-2 Amateur) vs (Japan) Toki Matsui 24 years old 6-0 pro



Welterweight: (Poland) Cezary Oleksiejczuk 24 years old 13-3 pro (23-7 amateur) vs (Kazakhstan) Bauyrzhan Kuanyshbayev 16-5 (3-2 amateur)




Some fun take aways, Salohidinov won the IMMAF world championships and beat Toki Matsui pro, Matsui is now on the Road to the UFC tournament this year. Okay just 1 fun take away.
 
Some upcoming fights to look out for in the coming weeks

22 year old Asaf Chopurov who's 3-0 pro and 31-1 amateur won the IMMAF's and Russian nationals multiple times is facing 13-3 35 year old Denis Levrentyev who has wins over Eduardo Dantas, Victor Henry and Taylor Lapilus. May 11th

27 year old Ramazan Gitinov who's 4-0 pro and 31-2 amateur 3x IMMAF champion is dropping down to 155lbs vs Prince Lolia 3-0 out of the Congo. May 11th

22-23 year old Kasib Murdoch making his pro debut, he's 11-0 amateur IMMAF champ, New Zealand youth nationals boxing champ and Junior Olympic competitor May 5th

23 year old Fergus Jenkins making his pro debut from New Zealand as well, 12-1 amateur and IMMAF world champ, has trained with Izzy in the past and is a MIddleweight to look out for. May 4th

26 year old Losene Keita 12-1 pro (3-0 amateur) fighting out of Belgium by way of Guinea fights 17-4 Agy Sardari May 4th
 
Kavanagh is scheduled for DWCS this year against another awesome prospect An Tuan Ho
 
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Been singing Daniyars praises for a while, he likely will be in ACA for years to come though. Razbahli Shaydullaev left ACA and went to UAE in an attempt to get a UFC contract so we will see. The big Kyrgyzstan prospects are Yryskeldi, Daniyar and Razhabali in my opinion.

Kavanagh is scheduled for DWCS this year against another awesome prospect An Tuan Ho

Is that confirmed or rumored? An Tuan Ho and Lone'er are two of the best Flyweight prospects, I feel like they didn't have to match them together.
 
Not really “prospects” anymore, but Ivan Shtyrkov vs Shamil Gamzatov is a very good fight that I’m looking forward to, coming up in a couple weeks:

 
Not really “prospects” anymore, but Ivan Shtyrkov vs Shamil Gamzatov is a very good fight that I’m looking forward to, coming up in a couple weeks:


Gamzatov withdrew and was replaced by Gadzhimurad Antigulov. If I am not mistaken Gamzatov withdrew because he signed with promotion Nashe Delo and fighting Viktor Nemkov in May or June.
 
Fights from the weekend

Losene Keita 26 years old 13-1 vs Agy Sardari 30 years old 17-4



Kasib Murdoch 23 years old 1-0 pro (11-0 amateur) vs Amir Mokhtar 1-0 pro



Fergus Jenkins fight unfortunately got cancelled.

Some take aways, Losene Keita got exposed here. He's making bad career decisions, he's an undersized LW but wants the money so he joined the Oktagon tournament at LW, but we saw vs Agy who was noticeably bigger than Keita struggles when he can't bully guys with his physical gifts...the speed, power and physicality is real but he has some slopshit striking technique and got fucking caught a few times and wobbled really badly in the 3rd...kid is going to get exposed really bad if he doesn't start learning fundamentals and defense soon...almost too old already to be so sloppy and it's a shame.

Then Kasib looked a little...unpolished for an IMMAF world champ and a national champ amateur boxer who competed at semi international levels as a junior. It's awesome to see he's training at Freestyle MMA and with Joe Lopez though, he's young and it was a debut...I look forward to the future and hope he considers 135, looks a bit small.
 
Saw Austin Bashi has a fight slated at FW. Fighting a total can but the height difference is incredibly pronounced (5'3 vs 5'10), don't know why he would aim for that given how small he is, even if he's better than just about any regional US guy.

He should outwrestle him, but fights like that are prime opportunities for getting derailed.
 
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