What a way to close the show! Rafal Haratyk
earns his sixth victory in a row on
#ACA109 main event. pic.twitter.com/HbCnNMc5Ro— ACAMMA (@ACA_League)
August 20, 2020
There is nothing quite like hearing fans cheering after a quick
knockout in a main event.
Absolute Championship Akhmat returned with its
first event with fans attending live at
ACA 109, which went down in Lodz, Poland, on Aug. 20.
In the headliner, Rafal
Haratyk (13-3-1) and Piotr Strus
(15-6-2) locked horns in the middleweight division. Haratyk started
strong and pushed the pace early, landing several clean
combinations. One of Haratyk’s hooks shook his opponent and knocked
him to the canvas, and once Haratyk smelled blood, he unleashed
furious ground-and-pound. Even though Strus seemed to be still
defending himself, the referee called a stop to the action at the
2:29 mark in the opening stanza. In his triumph, Haratyk extended
his current winning streak to six.
The co-main event featured a clash between two behemoths as
Ultimate Fighting Championship vet Daniel
Omielanczuk (24-9-1) took on Tomas
Pakutinskas (19-13-3) in the heavyweight division. The fighters
spent most of the first frame clinched up against the fence, until
the referee broke them apart. Back to the center of the cage,
Omielanczuk managed to damage Pakutinskas’ ribs thanks to a
well-placed body kick among their sporadic strikes landing
back-and-forth. After the first round concluded, the Lithuanian
fighter had had enough, calling an end to the fight on the stool.
Since leaving the UFC, Omielanczuk has amassed a record of 5-1,
with wins each of his last four.
In a middleweight affair, Nikola
Dipchikov (19-7) spoiled the ACA debut of UFC and
KSW vet Goran
Reljic (19-9) thanks to a first-round TKO.
Elsewhere on the card, Karol
Celinski (18-9-1) edged Luke
Barnatt (15-9) after a hard-fought middleweight clash in their
rubber match. In the first fight on the main card, Romanian fighter
Aurel
Pirtea (21-11) upset local fan-favorite Lukasz
Kopera (9-4) by taking home a unanimous decision.