Overview
- With a swift second-round head kick at BRAVE CF 100 in Isa Town’s Khalifa Sports City, Mokaev became the promotion’s first flyweight champion.
- The win preserves Mokaev’s perfect professional record and follows a 7-0 UFC run that ended when the promotion declined to re-sign him.
- Mokaev has framed the title as proof the UFC was wrong to let him go and says he is open to co-promotion talks, including ideas involving PFL champion Sergio Pettis.
- Burns entered 7-1 and had dismissed Mokaev’s style as boring, vowing to force a firefight before being finished early in round two.
- Bahrain has been central to Mokaev’s rise, from IMMAF successes to his early BRAVE CF bouts, and he has described the country as a second home.