“BAZARA 0 Fight Club IV” confirms Danik Vesnenok vs. Bovar Khanakov as the main fight for its fourth event, scheduled for September 12, 2026, at Xiaomi Arēna in Riga!
Vesnenoks enters as a Latvian MMA veteran, former WKN European featherweight MMA titleholder and founder of the BAZARA 0 platform, while Khanakov brings a significantly deeper documented résumé in bare-knuckle competition, including multiple appearances under the BKFC banner and experience in raw boxing and bare-knuckle formats across several promotions.
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Daniil “Danik” Vesnenok, is a Latvian fighter from Riga with an 11-3 professional MMA record. Asides from being the creator of BAZARA 0 himself, his most recent in-cage appearance came at “BAZARA 0 Fight Club 2, where he defeated Roberts Skujiņš by decision in a professional modified boxing bout with MMA gloves. He is a featherweight with a fight history including multiple appearances in Riga across LNK Fight Night, WFCA Baltic, King of Kings and other regional promotions.
A key career marker came on February 8, 2020, at LNK Fight Night 14 in Riga, where Vesnenok defeated Ukrainian Aleksander Kolontay over three rounds and held successful defence of the WKN European featherweight MMA title. Vesnenok has also worked outside standard MMA rulesets, defeating Daniil Utenkov by decision in a raw-boxing bout at Top Dog FC 8 in April 2021 and losing by decision to Alexey Melnikov at Top Dog FC 10 in September 2021.
Looking forward, Vesnenok comments:
“All my friends who know about this opponent keep asking me why I’m doing this. Bovar has spent the last few years living in America and beating local fighters there. He’s much more technical, much more experienced… and that is exactly why I want to fight him.
While I was building my companies and businesses, he was training. I understand that, on paper, I’m the underdog, and that’s what makes it interesting to me. It spikes my adrenaline. And that’s when I feel alive.
He is Ukraine’s biggest star in bare-knuckle fighting. He gained recognition in the same place I did: the TOP DOG organization. One of his fights is in their Hall of Fame… This will be watched not only by all of Latvia, but by all of Ukraine as well.”
Bovar Khanakov, known as “The Gladiator”, is a Ukrainian fighter from Mariupol; a featherweight, with a 5–3 bare-knuckle record. Khanakov’s bare-knuckle résumé includes appearances in both BKFC and BYB.
However, Khanakov’s bare-knuckle background predates his BKFC run. Before competing in the United States, he appeared in the Top Dog Fighting Championship, a Russian bare-knuckle promotion founded in Moscow and widely associated with the post-2019 rise of organised bare-knuckle fighting in the region.
Bovar holds three Top Dog bouts at 154 pounds: a second-round TKO victory over Rador Pirmamadov at Top Dog FC 5, a decision win over Murad Artsulaev at Top Dog FC 7, and a decision defeat to Nikolai Chibisov at Top Dog FC 9.
He holds a unanimous decision win over Isaac Freeman at BYB 13: Tampa Brawl in November 2022, followed by his BKFC debut against Freddy Masabo at BKFC 38 in April 2023.
In February 2024, Khanakov faced James “Get Down” Brown at the BKFC Prospect Series in Manassas, Virginia. BKFC’s official report states that Brown stopped Khanakov by technical knockout, but he rebounded in November 2024 at BKFC Fight Night: Los Angeles, where he defeated Ruben “Bad Boy” Warr by unanimous decision in the co-main event.
Most recently, Tapology lists Khanakov as returning to raw boxing on March 7, 2026, at Klan FC 13, where he defeated Andrii Khokhlov by unanimous decision over three rounds at 145 pounds.
