Absolute Championship Akhmat is back on
Thursday, only this time, fans will be in attendance.
The first event with fans of ACA will take place on Thursday in
Lodz, Poland, in the form of
ACA 109. Due to COVID-19 precautions, the arena will be only be
filled at half capacity. The promotion was not required by the
governing body to test the combatants for COVID-19, but ACA decided
it would test fighters before and after the events regardless of
the local regulations in place.
ACA President Alexey Yatsenko explained to Sherdog about the
organization’s plans, saying, “Poland was by the first country to
develop a protocol that allows organizing competitions with fans.
Recently in Poland new relaxations of the regime related to
COVID-19 came into force.”
Yatsenko continued, “The government of the country has issued a
recommendation according to which sports arenas can be filled with
spectators by 50 percent. In general, in Poland we could greatly
simplify our safety regulations. For example, there is no need to
test all the participants of the event neither before or after it.
But we decided not to deviate from the regulations that we
developed for our own events. For this, we sent several specialists
from the Russian office of the ACA to Poland in advance.”
Fans will be able to watch the broadcast of ACA 109 on the ACA website via pay-per-view at 1
p.m. ET/10 a.m. PT/8 p.m. Moscow on Thursday.
ACA 109 Full Lineup:
Piotr
Strus (Poland) vs. Rafal
Haratyk (Poland)
Daniel
Omielanczuk (Poland) vs. Tomas
Pakutinskas (Lithuania)
Nikola
Dipchikov (Bulgaria) vs. Goran
Reljic (Croatia)
Karol
Celinski (Poland) vs. Luke
Barnatt (U.K.)
Lukasz
Kopera (Poland) vs. Aurel
Pirtea (Romania)
Omer
Cankardesler (Germany) vs. Lom-Ali
Eskiev (Germany)
Kamil
Oniszczuk (Poland) vs. Mindaugas
Verzbickas (Lithuania)
Adam
Palasz (Poland) vs. Dmitry
Poberezhets (Ukraine)
Levan
Makashvili (USA) vs. Roman Dik
(Czech Republic)
Vitezslav
Rajnoch (Czech Republic) vs. Christian
Draxler (Austria)