BKFC 58 Results from Sofia, Bulgaria

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Bare Knuckle Fighting Championship (BKFC), the world’s fastest growing combat sports promotion, hosted its second sold-out event in Bulgaria with BKFC 58 on Friday at Arena Sofia in Sofia, Bulgaria.

The BKFC 58 Main Event featured a must-see battle between Bulgarian cruiserweight contenders Toni Markulev and Kaloyen Kolev. Both combatants left it all in the Squared Circle for five hard, highly competitive rounds, with Markulev ultimately bringing home the victory by unanimous decision.

Markulev dropped Kolev once in the opening round and won three rounds, according to the ringside judges, who unanimously scored the Main Event 48-46 in favor of the debuting Markulev. Kolev’s record fell to 1-1 with the loss.

A record thirteen nationalities were represented in the Squared Circle on Friday.

In the BKFC 58 Co-Main Event, Serbia’s Vaso Bakocevic defeated Egypt’s Ramadan Nooman via majority decision in their hotly contested welterweight showdown. The lone knockdown of the bout came at the expense of Nooman in the second round. The ringside judges scored it 48-46, 46-48, 47-47.

After five hard, action-packed rounds, Zohrab Azimov’s and Veselin Ivanov’s featherweight clash was declared a split draw. One judge scored it 48-46 in favor of the Azerbaijanian Azimov, one judged scored it 48-46 for the Bulgarian Ivanov, and one judge