EFA Championship 2: Chakir is the new champion, Nakovski takes the WKN world title

On 3 October EFA Championship 2 drew 2,000 fans to the ASICS Arena in Sofia. The fight night aired live on NOVA SPORT. The card had 18 bouts: seven prelims and eleven on the main card, with two title fights.

In the main event Morocco's Ilyas Chakir beat champion Martin Koprivlenski by split decision after five rounds and took the EFA title at 83.9 kg. It was Koprivlenski's first fight at the new weight and his first loss there.

Simeon Nakovski became WKN world champion. In the third round he put Angelo Fiamingo down three times and the referee stopped the fight.

Three main-card bouts were over in the first round. Seventeen-year-old Kaloyan Georgiev knocked out Mauri Smit with a flying knee, Erdem Dincer stopped Aleksandar Hristov with an elbow, and nine-year-old Daria Kirilova won by knockout against Stanimira Castillo.

Main card:

Ilyas Chakir def. Martin Koprivlenski, split decision (EFA title, 83.9 kg)

Simeon Nakovski def. Angelo Fiamingo, TKO round 3 (WKN world title, 62.2 kg)

Erdem Dincer def. Aleksandar Hristov, KO round 1

Silviu Vitez def. Riccardo Cristiani, TKO round 2

Dmitro Vlasuk def. João Silva, unanimous decision

Mitko Iliev def. Samir Nezla, unanimous decision

Stanislav Kazantsev def. Alexander Ribnikov, unanimous decision

Kaloyan Georgiev def. Mauri Smit, KO round 1

Tymur Brykov def. Konstantin Stoikov, unanimous decision

Diyan Dimitrov def. Anouar Chakir, unanimous decision

Daria Kirilova def. Stanimira Castillo, KO round 1

Prelims:

Asen Asenov def. Gospodin Keranov, unanimous decision

Todor Zhelyazov def. Kristiyan Ivanov, TKO round 3

Kaloyan Stoilov def. Rumen Donev, unanimous decision

Daniel Kolev def. Aleksandar Stoyanov, unanimous decision

Stanislav Apostolov def. Dimitar Nikolov, unanimous decision

Dobromir Dobrev def. Martin Stefanov, split decision

Ivan Konstantinov def. Randam Ivanov, unanimous decision

Photos from every bout are in the gallery, and the best-of-the-night video is on the event page. The next fight night, EFA Championship 3, will be announced soon.