At Oktagon70, Oktagon MMA Welterweight Champion, Ion Surdu, strikes to Middleweight for his first battle within the Tipsport Gamechanger Middleweight Match. He takes on the UFC and PFL Veteran, Krzysztof Jotko. After claiming the Welterweight Title in December 2024, Ion Surdu is transferring as much as attempt to win the Middleweight match. Profitable the match might earn him a shot on the OktagonMMA Middleweight Championship.
Ion Surdu
“Dracula” is coming into this battle using a 2-fight win streak, with each wins coming over former OktagonMMA Welterweight Champions. A swift left hook KO over David Kozma, and a brutal headkick KO towards Kaik Brito. Ion Surdu has had loads of questions thrown at him concerning him going up in weight, towards a former Mild-Heavyweight in Jotko, however has defined that he’s a deceptively giant Welterweight. He acknowledged in December, that he walked into the Kaik Brito battle weighing over 90kg, virtually 200lbs.
A win over Jotko would thrust Surdu into the dialog of elite expertise underneath the OktagonMMA banner. After already proving that he’s certainly one of, if not the most effective Welterweight in European MMA, successful the Tipsport Gamechanger Middleweight match, would show he is among the greatest fighters in European MMA, interval.
The Tipsport Gamechanger Middleweight Match
Together with Surdu v Jotko, Oktagon 70 has the final of the opening spherical bouts. Piotr Wawrzyniak takes on Marek Mazuch, Vlasta Čepo locks horns with Erhan Kartal and Samuel Kristofic will face Dominik Humburger. The Middleweight Champion, Kerim Engizek, together with Matej Penaz progressed with spectacular wins in February, and the previous Cage Warriors Champion, Mick Stanton and Mark Hulme confirmed ranges in Trinec. The draw of the subsequent spherical will happen at Oktagon 70. As soon as the fights are wrapped up within the ultimate 4 bouts, we discover out who’s going through who within the subsequent spherical, which takes place within the Summer time.
