The heavyweight semifinal scrap between Alexandr Romanov and Valentin Moldavsky was dropped at a crashing halt after Romanov suffered a brutal low blow late within the first spherical.
Romanov delivered a dominant efficiency for many of the opening stanza, muscling his opponent to the mat with belly-to-belly suplex and racking up some appreciable management time on the mat. As Moldavsky made his manner upright, the 2 jockeyed for place in opposition to the fence.
With little greater than 30 seconds to go, Romanov landed a knee within the clinch. As Moldavsky tried to reply with a knee of his personal, he hit ‘King Kong’ sq. within the protecting gear, sending Romanov crashing to the canvas in utter agony.
After a full 5 minutes of Romanov mendacity on the mat, unable to straighten his legs, not to mention stand up, the cageside physicians gave the go-ahead to name off the competition.
Official End result: Alexandr Romanov vs. Valentin Moldavsky dominated a no contest attributable to an unintended unlawful blow at 4:26 of Spherical 1.
As a result of this was a event bout, the judges had been tasked with scoring the struggle up till the low blow. They unanimously superior Romanov to the heavyweight last. He’ll now face Oleg Popov on the PFL World Championships in August.
