Final Fight Championship (FFC) is an international combat sports promotion company founded in 2003 by the FFC owner and CEO Orsat Zovko. The company has its headquarters in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, as well as a European office in Zagreb, Croatia.
FFC started as a kickboxing promotion, in 2013 FFC introduced MMA fights in its events as well as boxing matches in 2016.
Events # Event Title Date Arena Location Attendance 44Final Fight Championship 40: Egli vs. Lemminger5 September 2019Fight Dome, Las VegasLas Vegas, USA 43Final Fight Championship 39: Jones vs. Powell11 July 2019Fight Dome, Las VegasLas Vegas, USA 42Final Fight Championship 38: Cucciniello vs. Emmers20 June 2019Fight Dome, Las VegasLas Vegas, USA 41Final Fight Championship 37: Santiago vs. Martinez30 May 2019Fight Dome, Las VegasLas Vegas, USA 40Final Fight Championship 36: Chub vs. Ambang10 May 2019Fight Dome, Las VegasLas Vegas, USA 39Final Fight Championship 35: Egli vs. Holt19 April 2019Fight Dome, Las VegasLas Vegas, USA 38Final Fight Championship 34: Petje vs. Gazani17 November 2018Fight Dome, Las VegasLas Vegas, USA 37Final Fight Championship 33: Chub vs. Vrtacic3 November 2018Fight Dome, Las VegasLas Vegas, USA 36Final Fight Championship 32: Graves vs. Seumanutafa19 October 2018Fight Dome, Las VegasLas Vegas, USA 35Final Fight Championship 31: Neves vs. Egli12 October 2018Fight Dome, Las VegasLas Vegas, USA 34Final Fight Championship 30: Ishii vs. Schmiedeberg21 October 2017TipsArena, LinzLinz, Austria 33Final Fight Championship 29: Champion vs. Champion22 April 2017Tivoli HallLjubljana, Slovenia 32Final Fight Championship 28: Greece vs. Rest of the World11 March 2017Faliro Sports Pavilion ArenaAthens, Greece 31Final Fight Championship 27: Night of Champions17 December 2016Arena ZagrebZagreb, Croatia 30Final Fight Championship 26: Linz23 September 2016TipsArena LinzLinz, Austria 39Final Fight Championship 25: Springfield10 June 2016MassMutual CenterSpringfield, Massachusetts, United States 28Final Fight Championship 24: Daytona Beach3 June 2016Ocean CenterDaytona Beach, USA 27Final Fight Championship 23: Austria 18 March 2016Multiversum SchwechatVienna, Austria 26Final Fight Championship 22: Athens19 February 2016Faliro Sports Pavilion ArenaAthens, Greece 25 Final Fight Championship 21: Rijeka Cantar Zamet Rijeka, Croatia 24 Final Fight Championship 20: Zagreb Dražen Petrović Basketball Hall Zagreb, Croatia 3,000 23 Final Fight Championship 19: Sakara vs. Akil TipsArena Linz Linz, Austria 22 Final Fight Championship 18: Pokrajac vs. Taxiarchis Arena Stožice Ljubljana, Slovenia 21 Final Fight Championship 17: Futures Super Finals Marino Cvetković Sports Hall Opatija, Croatia 20 Final Fight Championship 16: Sakara vs. Browarski Multiversum Schwechat Vienna, Austria 19 Final Fight Championship 15: Jurković vs. Stolzenbach Žatika Sport Centre Poreč, Croatia 3,500 18 FFC Futures 4 Žatika Sport Centre Poreč, Croatia 17 Final Fight Championship 14: Račić vs. Krušič Tivoli Hall Ljubljana, Slovenia 1,000 16 FFC Futures 3 Sutinska Vrela Sports Hall Zagreb, Croatia 1,000 15 Final Fight Championship 13: Jurković vs. Tavares Krešimir Ćosić Hall Zadar, Croatia 1,500 14 FFC Futures 2 Marino Cvetković Sports Hall Opatija, Croatia 1,500 13 Final Fight Championship 12: Daley vs. Fabjan Tivoli Hall Ljubljana, Slovenia 6,000 12 Final Fight Championship 11: Jurković vs. Kaluđerović Gradski vrt Hall Osijek, Croatia 4,300 11 FFC Futures 1 Marino Cvetković Sports Hall Opatija, Croatia 2,000 10 Final Fight Championship 10: Rodriguez vs. Batzelas Boris Trajkovski Sports Center Skopje, Macedonia 6,000 9 Final Fight Championship 9: McSweeney vs. Traunmuller Tivoli Hall Ljubljana, Slovenia 2,500 8 Final Fight Championship 8: Zelg vs. Rodriguez Arena Zagreb Zagreb, Croatia 7,500 7 Final Fight Championship 7: Poturak vs. Munoz Skenderija Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina Canceled event. 6 Final Fight Championship 6: Jurković vs. Poturak Žatika Sport Centre Poreč, Croatia 4,300 5 Final Fight Championship 5: Rodriguez vs. Simonič Gradski vrt Hall Osijek, Croatia 4,000 4 Final Fight Championship 4: Perak vs. Joni Krešimir Ćosić Hall Zadar, Croatia 4,700 3 Final Fight Championship 3: Jurković vs. Cătinaș Arena Gripe Split, Croatia 1,000 2 Cro Cop Final Fight Arena Zagreb Zagreb, Croatia 10,500 1 Final Fight: Stars war Dom Sportova Zagreb, Croatia 10,000
History
The Final Fight: Stars War
The Final Fight: Stars War, also known as K-1 Final Fight Stars War in Zagreb, was a kickboxing event produced by Final Fight Championship that was held on 31 October 2003 at Dom Sportova in Zagreb, Croatia. It was the inaugural event held under the FFC banner.
The event was headlined by a heavyweight bout between Mike Bernardo and Sergey Gur. Additionally, the card also featured Stefan Leko, Alexey Ignashov, and Vitali Akhramenko.
Results
Cro Cop Final Fight
Cro Cop Final Fight was a kickboxing event produced by the Final Fight Championship that was held on 10 March 2012 at Arena Zagreb in Zagreb, Croatia.
Final Fight had a nine-year break before organizing its second event titled Cro Cop Final Fight.
The event was headlined by a heavyweight bout between Mirko Cro Cop and eight-time K-1 WGP finalist Ray Sefo. The bout also marked Mirko Cro Cop's return to kickboxing after nine years spent in mixed martial arts. Moreover, it was also first Cro Cop's major fight in front of his hometown audience.
In addition to Mirko Cro Cop and Sefo, the event, attended by a crowd of approximately 11,000 people, included the likes of former It's Showtime champion Daniel Ghiță, SUPERKOMBAT WGP winner Sergei Lascenko and former It's Showtime champion Sahak Parparyan. Up and coming local fighters also got a chance to make a name for themselves, such as Mladen Brestovac, Toni Milanović and Agron Preteni.
Results
FFC era
In March 2013, Fight Channel announced a series of events under the Final Fight brand, with the addition of the word "Championship" (C) in the promotion's name, revealing its intention to organize title bouts in the future. Also revealed was its new updated logo. FFC President Orsat Zovko announced that the promotion would hold at least 10 events in 2013, which would feature kickboxing and MMA bouts in equal measure. Each event was to have ten fights, four on the preliminary fight card and six on the main card. This was a novelty considering that the first two Final Fight events featured only kickboxing matches. The events were to be broadcast live on Fight Channel in Croatia, but also on many other international cable platforms. Zovko relied on the success of K-1 WGP Final event in Zagreb, Croatia, also produced and co-organized by Fight Channel in 2003 and ultimately won by Mirko Cro Cop. It was first K-1 WGP Final ever held outside Japan.
FFC 3: Jurković vs. Cătinaș
FFC 3: Jurković vs. Cătinaș was a mixed martial arts and kickboxing event produced by the Final Fight Championship that was held on 19 April 2013 at Gripe in Split, Croatia
The event was headlined by a heavyweight kickboxing bout between Igor Jurković and Raul Cătinaș.
Local fighter Agron Preteni who defeated favourite Romanian Andrei Stoica at the K-1 WGP Final several weeks earlier was also to fight at the event but he was forced to withdraw citing an injury. The promotion was unable to find a last-minute replacement for Preteni, which is why FFC 3 featured nine instead of the scheduled 10 fights.
In the first preliminary MMA bout of the evening, Ivan Gluhak defeated Dejan Milošević via stoppage at the end of the second round. Gluhak vs. Milošević was the first MMA bout in Final Fight Championship's history.
In the main event, Igor Jurković defeated Romanian Cătinaș via decision, while in the co-main event K-1 WGP Final semifinalist Pavel Zhuravlev KO'ed Italy's Luca Panto.
FFC 3 was broadcast live in more than fifty countries, including national TV stations in Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina. Croatian national TV network Nova TV later reported that FFC 3 had a 32% share in TV ratings, making the event the most watched show of that week.
After the event, Orsat Zovko announced the upcoming events in Zadar, Osijek and Poreč, as well as FFC's expansion and events in other countries of the Southeastern Europe.
Results
FFC 4: Perak vs. Joni
FFC 4: Perak vs. Joni was a mixed martial arts and kickboxing event produced by the Final Fight Championship that was held on 10 May 2013 at Višnjik in Zadar, Croatia.
The event was headlined by a heavyweight MMA bout between Maro Perak and Tibor Joni.
Only three weeks after its first event under the new name, Final Fight Championship held its first event in Zadar, Croatia. The event took place in Višnjik arena with the capacity of 9,500 seats. According to the media estimates, FFC 4 was attended by a 4,500-strong crowd, a significantly better result compared to the previous FFC 3 in Split. FFC 4 was the first event in the promotion's history with an MMA bout in the main event.
After numerous cancellations and injuries, Maro Perak. Perak called out Denis Stojnić, a former UFC fighter, but Stojnić refused the offer. Stojnić told the media that his goal was to make it back to the UFC and for that he needed a win over a big name like Mirko Cro Cop, Mustapha Al Turk, Andrei Arlovski or Jeff Monsont.
In the co-main event, Croatian kickboxing heavyweight Mladen Brestovac defeated Sergei Lascenko via decision after three rounds. Both fighters had previously participated in the K-1 WGP Final in Zagreb where Brestovac defeated Spain's Frank Munoz, while Lascenko lost to Dževad Poturak.
Poland's Maciej Browarski, who stepped in on short notice, pulled off a huge upset when he defeated one of the best European MMA lightheavyweight fighters, Jason Jones, in the first round.
Results
FFC 5: Rodriguez vs. Simonjič
FFC 5: Rodriguez vs. Simonjič was a mixed martial arts and kickboxing event produced by the Final Fight Championship that was held on 24 May 2013 at Gradski vrt in Osijek, Croatia.
The event was headlined by a heavyweight MMA bout between former UFC champion Ricco Rodriguez and Slovenia's Tomaž Simonjič.
In the co-main event, Ukraine's kickboxer Pavel Zhuravlev KO'ed the Netherlands's Vinchenzo Renfurm, making his second consecutive win in the FFC. Croatia's MMA Ante Delija and Ante Račić also achieved wins, while Bosnian Igor Emkić defeated Ivan Stanić fighting out of Croatia.
Only two bouts went the distance.
At the post-fight presser, Ricco Rodriguez called out former UFC fighter Denis Stojnić. Stojnić later refused that proposition claiming that UFC matchmaker Joe Silva wanted him to fight Mirko Cro Cop, Mustapha Al Turk, Andrei Arlovski or Jeff Monson.
Results
FFC 6: Jurković vs. Poturak
FFC 6: Jurković vs. Poturak was a mixed martial arts and kickboxing event produced by the Final Fight Championship that was held on 14 June 2013 at Žatika Sport Centre in Poreč, Croatia.
The event was headlined by a kickboxing heavyweight bout between Igor Jurković and Dževad Poturak.
FFC 6 marked the second FFC event headlined by Igor Jurković after FFC 3 in Split, Croatia, on 19 April 2013.
The co-main event featured two top kickboxing heavyweights. The Dutch Hesdy Gerges defeated Pavel Zhuravlev via split decision. The bout marked Zhuravlev's first FFC defeat after two wins.
Hungary's Laszlo Senyei defeated Ivica Trušček via unanimous decision in an MMA welterweight bout.
Ibrahim El Bouni beat Bosnian kickboxer Igor Emkić in 29 seconds via a KO.
At the post-fight presser, FFC President Orsat Zovko announced the upcoming fall events in Sarajevo (Bosnia and Herzegovina), Pula (Croatia), Zagreb (Croatia), Skopje (Macedonia) and Ljubljana (Slovenia).
Results
FFC 7: Poturak vs. Munoz
FFC 7: Poturak vs. Munoz was a mixed martial arts and kickboxing event produced by the Final Fight Championship that was held on 13 March 2015 at Skenderija in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina.