Santos vs Abbasov

Who won Santos vs Abbasov?

Luis Santos beat Kiamrian Abbasov by unanimous decision in their 3 round contest during the main card of ONE Championship – Visions of Victory, on Friday 9th March 2018 at Axiata Arena in Kuala Lumpur.

The scorecards were announced in favor of the winner Luis Santos.

The fight was scheduled to take place over 3 rounds in the Welterweight division, which meant the weight limit was 170 pounds (12.1 stone or 77.1 KG).

Santos vs Abbasov stats

Luis Santos stepped into the octagon with a record of 63 wins, 10 losses and 1 draw, 37 of those wins coming by the way of knock out and 11 by submission.

Kiamrian Abbasov made his way to the cage with a record of 18 wins, 3 losses and 0 draws, 9 of those wins coming by knock out and 3 by submission.

Luis Santos' One Championship record stood at 5-3-0, while Kiamrian Abbasov's came in at 4-3-0.

The stats suggested Santos had a slight advantage in power over Abbasov, with a 59% knock out percentage over Abbasov's 50%.

If the fight went to the ground, their records suggested that Santos and Abbasov would have been pretty equal, both with a 17% submission rate.

Luis Santos was the older man by 14 years, at 45 years old.

Abbasov had a height advantage of 1 inch over Santos.

Santos was the more experienced professional fighter, having had 53 more fights, and made his debut in 2000, 11 years and 8 months earlier than Abbasov, whose first professional fight was in 2011. He had fought 81 more professional rounds, 147 to Abbasov's 66.

Santos vs Abbasov form

Abbasov had beaten 3 of his last 5 opponents, stopping 2 of them, going the distance once.

In his last fight leading up to this contest, he had lost to Reinier de Ridder on 25th February 2022 by submission in the 3rd round in their ONE Light Heavyweight championship fight.

Previous to that, he had won against James Nakashima at ONE Championship – Inside the Matrix 2 on 6th November 2020 by knockout in the 4th round in their ONE Welterweight championship fight at Singapore Indoor Stadium, Singapore.

Going into that contest, he had beaten Yushin Okami at ONE Championship – For Honor on 3rd May 2019 by knockout in the 2nd round at Istora Senayan, Jakarta, Indonesia.

Before that, he had defeated Agilan Thani at ONE Championship – Destiny of Champions on 7th December 2018 by submission in the 1st round at Axiata Arena, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

He had been beaten by Luis Santos at ONE Championship – Visions of Victory on 9th March 2018 by unanimous decision in their 3 round contest at Axiata Arena, Kuala Lumpur.

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Abbasov's last 5 fights had come over a period of 7 years, 2 months and 24 days, meaning he had been fighting on average every 1 year, 5 months and 12 days. In those fights, he fought a total of 13 rounds, meaning that they had lasted 2.6 rounds on average.

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