FightBox is proud to announce that Tatneft Cup Kickboxing, Russia’s biggest kickboxing organization, returns to live action from Kazan, Russia on Friday July 19th starting at 6:00 pm CEST (7:00 pm local time).
Tatneft is known as one of the top kickboxing organizations in the world. For many years they have cooperated with the best fighters from around the globe. Season 12 is already underway and this Friday July 19th 2019 "TNA TATNEFT Cup Fights” will once again be live on FightBox to start this season’s quarter final action.
In one of the featured bouts of the night, veteran fighter Yury Bessmertny of Belarus takes on Russia’s Sergey Ponomaryov. Bessmertny is a very experienced fighter who has participated in many tournaments in his career. He has made it to the semi-finals twice before in Tatneft, but has never won. Can this year be his year? Also, in a Heavyweight contest at +80 kilos, Italian Claudio Istrate faces Russian Valeriy Bizyaev. Both men looked impressive in their qualifying matches earlier this year and are now looking to advance in the tournament. The full fight card can be found below.
Fights Live on FightBox
1/4 final fights
-70 kg: Xiaolong Li (China) vs. Zhora Akopyan (Armenia / Belarus)
-80 kg: Gauwenbergh Mbamba (Belarus) vs. Musa Saltaev (Russia)
+80 kg: Claudio Istrate (Italy) vs. Valeriy Bizyaev (Russia)
-70 kg: Ilyas Boukayoua (Holland) vs. Ivan Kondratiev (Russia)
-80 kg: Yury Bessmertny (Belarus) vs. Sergey Ponomaryov (Russia)
+80 kg: Francesko Xhaja (Albania) vs. Igor Darmeshkin (Russia)
Tatneft Cup invites the best fighters from many standup fighting backgrounds such as kickboxing, Muay Thai, taekwondo, Kyokushin karate and more to take part in their prestigious international championship tournaments held in the legendary Tatneft Arena and FightBox is the broadcasting associate for these series of events.
In addition to the live worldwide broadcast on the FightBox TV channel in over 60 countries, the Tatneft Cup coverage will also be available on-line to FilmBox Live subscribers at www.filmboxlive.com. Card is subject to change.
