Aging heavyweights collided in dramatic fashion at MMA Festival, as Yuri "Playboy" Kiselov scored a huge one-punch knockout in Russia.
Yuri Kiselov’s fight with Timur Magdiev at the MMA Festival event in Rostov-on-Don on Friday night ticked a whole host of “crazy MMA” boxes and simply demanded to be featured on The Blue Corner.
Aging heavyweights? Check.
Self-congratulating fight nickname? Check.
Massive one-punch knockout? Check.
Unexpected, but superb, post-fight celebration? Check.
Kiselov vs. Magdiev gave us all of the above, and packed it all into an easy-to-digest 12-second morsel of MMA that left us all smiling.
The star of the show was Ukrainian heavyweight Kiselov, who fights under the nickname, “Playboy.” Aged 44, he was the young gun of the matchup against 52-year-old Russian Magdiev, who was making his return to the cage after a 20-YEAR layoff.
Magdiev, whose MMA debut saw him claim a TKO victory due to exhaustion at the M-1: European Championship back in 2000, was forced out of the tournament and missed out on a fight with Andrei Arlovski as a result. He returned later in the year and lost at the M-1: World Championship 2000 event, but seemingly went into retirement.
That retirement ended Friday night at MMA Festival, when he took on Kiselov, but any hopes of a grand return were shortlived as he was knocked out clean by a huge right hand by “Playboy,” who then celebrated in remarkable style by doing the splits in the center of the cage.
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