Moving onto the international card of UAE Warriors 54 the next evening, again we’ll start with the headliner, a catchweight bout twixt UAE-based Uzbek Jakhongir Jumaev and Tiger Muay Thai’s undefeated dynamic striker Shakhmar Sadygov who steps in to the hot seat, replacing teammate Kirill Gorobets. Knockout of the night at the seminal UAE Warriors 50 event earlier this year, undoubtedly went to underdog Jumaev in his stupendous first-round knockout of Andre Fialho to send cageside jaws to the floor. An Uzbek special forces soldier and ex-lightweight championship contender, he boasts a full arsenal of weaponry and trains alongside a host of local stars at TK MMA in Dubai. But he now faces one of the best undefeated Azeri’s competing today in Sadygov. Yet to go the distance in his entire professional career, the training partner of countryman Rafael Fiziev in Phuket is a truly devastating finisher with four first-round stoppages in his last seven bouts. He may have the grappling ability and top game to control Jumaev, but the Uzbek hand-to-hand combat specialist is incredibly dangerous from distance with the timing to punish anyone who enters the pocket. A fight with a variety of combat styles that is too difficult to predict, other than it staying out of the judges hands!