Fight fans who tuned in for World Series of Fighting (WSOF) 34 on New Year's Eve (Dec. 31, 2016) inside Madison Square Garden in New York, N.Y., got an unexpected bonus during NBC's broadcast. With four WSOF champions defending their titles during the programming, including the Lightweight main event that saw Justin Gaethje remain undefeated in a fight with Luiz Firmino, there simply wasn't time or room for a fifth title defense.
However, when Blagoi Ivanov steps in a cage there isn't much room ... period. At 5'11" and weighing more than 250 pounds, Ivanov is a stocky sambo fighter and a mountain of judo muscle with whom very few men can go the distance.