The main event of the evening, co-promoted by Al Siesta of Siesta Boxing and Alexander Zolkin of the Art City at Glavclub in Moscow, Russia, ended in a very anticlimactic fashion, when a heated encounter between Georgiy Chelokhsaev and previously undefeated Armenian Karen Margaryan was stopped way too early - as it seemed - by referee Yuri Koptsev, who waved the fight off after a single knockdown suffered by Margaryan.

Both boxers were fighting fiercely without clinching or showcasing brilliant boxing technique from round one. Chelokhsaev, 28, more experienced and battle-proven was maybe a shade better due to right timing and his choice of punches. Margaryan, 23, didn't give an inch back and rumbled furiously. Chelokhsaev wisely chose to box at times rather than to rumble all the way, while Margaryan relied more on brute power and hard shots.

Chelokhsaev was twice warned for punching a bit too low but otherwise he was slightly overcoming his very game opponent. Then suddenly in the fifth, Chelokhsaev charged with a multi-punch combo in the centre of the ring. While some punches missed or were smothered by the Armenian, a few landed cleanly, sending Margaryan down. It seemed like a flash knockdown but the referee didn't give the Armenian any benefit of doubt by immediately waving it off. Up at six or seven, even despite Koptsev's desire to keep him down as a measure of precaution, Margaryan was ready to go on but it was too late to a major dismay and shock of his cornermen and himself.

Time of stoppage was 1:59 of the fifth. Chelokhsaev is now 21-2-1, 14 KOs, while Margaryan suffers his first loss - an unjust at least for his team - and is now 4-1-2, 1 KO. Discussion over the fight's outcome went on for some time after - yet without the Armenian, who chose not to stay in the ring for the winner's announcement.

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Yuri Osipov (3-0, 3 KOs), 21, punched 45-year-old veteran Evgueny Klimov into submission at 2:37 of the fourth round. Klimov used his vast experience to hang on with the young puncher but his corner saw enough even though Klimov was still rumbling with a younger foe at the time of stoppage. Klimov is now 2-8-1, 1 KO.

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Determined battle-tested super middleweight Magomed Magomedov (4-1, 1 KO) overcame tough resistance of lanky, previously undefeated power-puncher Igor Semernin and equaled their records at 4-1 with a close unanimous decision.

Both fighters had the same opponent in Armenian fighter Arest Saakyan. Magomedov barely defeated Saakyan with a four-round split decision on November 16, 2020, in the final of an eight-boxer, one-day tournament. Semernin fought Saakyan a year after that, and the fight ended in tragedy. Saakyan succumbed to injuries sustained in the Semernin fight and passed away less than two weeks after the fatal affair.

Coming back from his share of tragic feelings, Semernin didn't look lost or undetermined but something was missing. His hard, damaging blows were several seconds off the mark and allowed Magomedov either to avoid or to smother them. Magomed was also more active and landed more punches in close quarters, which definitely favor him. Semernin landed several big shots, specifically after the midpoint, and Magomedov didn't do himself any favors by constantly circling right into the fire range of Igor's major weapon - his right hand. Still, he did more - according to the judges - to get the nod. BoxingScene saw it 77-76 - also for Magomedov, albeit Semernin (now 4-1, 4 KOs) has nothing to be ashamed of.

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A huge counterclockwise hook got the job done for the Uzbek import Muzaffar Rasulov (7-2, 4 KOs) in a scheduled welterweight eight-rounder versus Tajik counterpart Tolibdzhon Sarabekov (3-10, 1 KO). Rasulov dominated the fight, which ended at 1:53 of the third, while Sarabekov concentrated mostly on survival and unsuccessfully so.

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Light middleweight Ramazon Alimatov (5-4-1, 1 KO), originally from Shaydon, Tajikistan, and now fighting out of Perm, Russia, easily dominated hugely overmatched and also smaller Dmitry Drobnov (0-2) to a wide unanimous decision in a six-rounder. Alimatov fought just one month after losing a close split decision to Alan Khugaev for Russia's 154lb title. Oppositely, Drobnov was coming back five and a half years after his last (and only) fight.

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Multi-loss fight veteran Alexander Saltykov, 42, celebrated a sad milestone of seventy defeats with the first-round stoppage by hard-hitting light welterweight Daud Alaev (3-0, 3 KOs), sixteen years his junior. Saltykov didn't look bad in the first, not only being rocked several times by Alaev but also landing some telling blows of his own. However, Saltykov's camp felt or saw something wrong and retired its boxer after the end of the first. Saltykov is now 12-70-3, 7 KOs, with seventeen of his last nineteen losses being by way of stoppage. Alaev stopped all of his foes within the first round.

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In a battle of debutants, Uzbek Temur Boysinov stopped his Azerbaijani opponent Raset Bayramov in less than two rounds.

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In a walk-out collision of heavyweight debutants Denis Gubarev stopped Vladislav Komarov at 1:05 of the second round.