AСA Will Hold First Event With Spectators in Poland on Thursday

Absolute Championship Akhmat is back on Thursday, only this time, fans will be in attendance.

The first event with fans of ACA will take place on Thursday in Lodz, Poland, in the form of ACA 109. Due to COVID-19 precautions, the arena will be only be filled at half capacity. The promotion was not required by the governing body to test the combatants for COVID-19, but ACA decided it would test fighters before and after the events regardless of the local regulations in place.

ACA President Alexey Yatsenko explained to Sherdog about the organization’s plans, saying, “Poland was by the first country to develop a protocol that allows organizing competitions with fans. Recently in Poland new relaxations of the regime related to COVID-19 came into force.”

Yatsenko continued, “The government of the country has issued a recommendation according to which sports arenas can be filled with spectators by 50 percent. In general, in Poland we could greatly simplify our safety regulations. For example, there is no need to test all the participants of the event neither before or after it. But we decided not to deviate from the regulations that we developed for our own events. For this, we sent several specialists from the Russian office of the ACA to Poland in advance.”

Fans will be able to watch the broadcast of ACA 109 on the ACA website via pay-per-view at 1 p.m. ET/10 a.m. PT/8 p.m. Moscow on Thursday.

ACA 109 Full Lineup:

Piotr Strus (Poland) vs. Rafal Haratyk (Poland)
Daniel Omielanczuk (Poland) vs. Tomas Pakutinskas (Lithuania)
Nikola Dipchikov (Bulgaria) vs. Goran Reljic (Croatia)
Karol Celinski (Poland) vs. Luke Barnatt (U.K.)
Lukasz Kopera (Poland) vs. Aurel Pirtea (Romania)
Omer Cankardesler (Germany) vs. Lom-Ali Eskiev (Germany)
Kamil Oniszczuk (Poland) vs. Mindaugas Verzbickas (Lithuania)
Adam Palasz (Poland) vs. Dmitry Poberezhets (Ukraine)
Levan Makashvili (USA) vs. Roman Dik (Czech Republic)
Vitezslav Rajnoch (Czech Republic) vs. Christian Draxler (Austria)