One Championship's middleweight title fight isn't what the crowd at the Putra Stadium in Kuala Lumpur came to see. Nonetheless, unbeaten Russian Vitaly Bigdash stole the show and Igor Svirid's gold.
Despite fighting in the middle of the One's Malaysian offering behind more popular local fighters, Bigdash (8-0) was every bit the main event of “Tigers of Asia,” knocking Svirid (10-2) out 36 seconds into the second round with a blistering clinch knee-right hook combo and hammerfists. The scintillating stoppage was the culimation of a wild brawl and gutsy comeback by the 31-year-old Bigdash, all in less than six minutes.