Live: Karimov and Okonkwo all square after two rounds in Istanbul
World No. 1 Aleksei Karimov and Nigeria's Marcus Okonkwo split the first two rounds of their five-round main event at the KBN Istanbul Open 2026. Round three is under way.
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Events
Previews, fight-night coverage and the calendar across the KBN branches.
The road after Dubai: KBN branch fixtures for autumn and winter
London, Moscow, Lagos, Istanbul and Tehran — the sanctioned KBN events on the calendar after the World Championship, with their levels and multipliers.
Events
🇹🇷 Turkey
Follow every round: how the KBN live centre works
Judges’ running totals, round-by-round scores and tonight’s card, refreshed every few seconds from the referee app.
Events
🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates
World Championship 2026 fight card confirmed: Karimov vs Yılmaz headlines Dubai
The KBN World Championship 2026 comes to Dubai on 18 October with a ×3.0 multiplier — the highest in the KBN framework — and four world-level bouts.
Events
🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates
Dubai, 18 October: what a KBN world title is worth at ×3.0
The KBN World Championship 2026 is the only event of the year at the full world multiplier. Here is the arithmetic every fighter on the card is thinking about.
The referee app: offline-first scoring and three-judge scorecards
Officials check fighters in by QR, record weigh-ins and score every round on a phone — even with no signal. Nothing reaches the ranking until an admin verifies it.