The forum will include:
- Professional kickboxing tournament FKR PRO 8
- Press conference and battle of views of tournament participants
- Educational program with the participation of leading industry experts
- Annual FKR Award
- Gala dinner in honor of the forum participants and guests
- Entertainment program with the participation of Russian show business stars.
During the tournament, 10 couples will fight according to professional K1 rules. The highlight of the evening will be the duel between Mikhail Ivanov and Tarmelan Bashirov, it will take place in the format of five rounds of three minutes. Also on the main card there will be fights between athletes already known to kickboxing fans: Daria Kuvakina and Elena Okhapkina, Ivan Buldakov and Anton Salchak, Armen Minasyan and Magomed Shamsaev.
The co-main fight will feature famous kickboxers Konstantin Glukhov and Alexey Stoyan. Glukhov is the winner of the K-1 Riga 2008 Grand Prix qualifying tournament, the winner of the K-1 Istanbul 2010 Grand Prix qualifying tournament, European champion, Asian champion, world kickboxing champion. He fought more than 80 kickboxing fights and won more than 50 victories. His opponent Alexey Stoyan is an international master of sports and world champion in Thai boxing. His personal record in kickboxing is 8 wins, 1 draw and 0 losses.
General Director of RED ARENA Irina Borisova emphasized the special status of the upcoming event: “We are always very enthusiastic about hosting a variety of martial arts tournaments on our site. Such sporting events always delight and attract both a large number of our regular guests and those who are just getting acquainted with the RED ARENA and the gambling zone.
This time the sports component will take place side by side with the educational and business parts of the forum. The event will be the most important event in the calendar of the Russian Kickboxing Federation and will contribute to the development and strengthening of the position of kickboxing in our country. We want to support such an important mission and invite all martial arts fans to visit the RED ARENA during the forum.”
The educational program of the forum will consist of a series of seminars, practical trainings and interactive lectures. The teachers will be employees of the sports department of the Russian Federation, invited experts and representatives of the Russian International Olympic University and the Federal Budgetary Institution “Federal Center for the Training of Sports Reserve”.
The goal of the program will be for participants to acquire new knowledge in the field of strategic and project management of the regional kickboxing federation, mastering modern crisis management tools and scaling successful practices.