Review by AllTheBestFights.com: 2019-06-22, some good exchanges between Artem Vakhitov and Donegi Abena but it is not enough to get three stars: it gets two.The former WMC muay thai and current Glory light-Hw champion Artem Vakhitov entered this fight with a pro kickboxing record of 20-5-0 (8 knockouts) and he is ranked as the No.1 super cruiserweight in the world. He lost to Saulo Cavalari in their first fight in 2015 (via split decision) but then he has won seven bouts taking revenge on Cavalari in 2016 and in 2017 (Cavalari vs Vakhitov 2 and Vakhitov vs Cavalari 3); he fought just once last year beating Danyo Ilunga (Artem Vakhitov vs Danyo Ilunga 2).
His opponent, Donegi Abena, has a record of 24-5-0 (6 knockouts) and he entered as the No.6 in the same weight class. He fought twice for Glory winning over Stephane Susperregui and Michael Duut. Vakhitov vs Abena is valid for the Glory light heavyweight title (Vakhitov’s fifth defense); undercard of Cedric Doumbe vs Alim Nabiev 2 – Glory 66. Watch the video and rate this fight!
Event: Glory 66: Paris
Date: 2019-06-22
Where: Zenith Paris, Paris, France
Division: super cruiserweight (210 lbs, 95.5 kg)
Title: Glory Light Heavyweight Championship
Abena’s next fight: Alex Pereira vs Donegi Abena
Vakhitov’s next fight: Artem Vakhitov vs Alex Pereira
Vakhitov vs Abena fight video:
(Free embeddable video hosted on Youtube/ok.ru and not uploaded by AllTheBestFights)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3U1PFaC-iWk
Official video
https://youtu.be/WTlR63-debA?t=4938
Glory judging strikes again. Decided to give it a chance after not following it for a while. Well, back to not watching this promotion.
Disgusting!!!! a total robbery. The best guy, with the better techniques, who has more strikes all over the body of his rival during the full fight, and more accuracy with his punches and some of his kicks lost the fight since he was against Artem and 5 additional dirty and corrupted judges. Still cannot believe this result which is totally out of the blue where rounds 3 and 4 were clearly won by Abena also. Glory should start to think very seriously to stop all this non sense results and nasty behavior by proceeding right away with the expulsion of all these useless and dirty judges as really is required. Shame to all them.