Female bantamweight goes distance with 529-pound man in Russian freakshow fight

The term “freakshow” gets thrown around loosely when describing novelty fights, but it doesn’t get more freakshow than Russian promotion Epic FC booking a 529-pound man against a 115-pound woman.

That’s what happened this week as the massive Grigory Chistyakov fought Aleksandra Stepakova in a ridiculously absurd matchup that went to a decision, with the judges awarding Chistyakov the win.

Here’s footage of the fight (via Twitter):

massive Grigory Chistyakov vs female strawweight Aleksandra Stepakova ends in a decision. you can see on Aleksanda face no fake punches here . #popMMA pic.twitter.com/5kh3rKEl64

— Matysek (@Matysek88) February 9, 2022

This isn’t the first time we’ve seen Chistyakov fight a female in the cage. In November 2020, he fought bantamweight Darina Madzyuk, who TKO’d the behemoth and parlayed that appearance into a Bellator contract.

If a fight like this never gets made again, MMA would be better for it.

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