“BAZARA 0 Fight Club IV” has locked in a high-level clash: Aleksandrs Cherkesovs vs. Jabbar Mustafayev!
Cherkesovs and Mustafayev will fight for the WAKO Pro Interim European Championship title, one of the most prestigious sanctions in professional kickboxing. WAKO PRO is the professional arm of the World Association of Kickboxing Organizations (WAKO), one of the sport’s largest and longest-running governing bodies.
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Aleksandrs Cherkesovs has spent years training alongside elite Baltic fighters (Zaurs Dzhavadovs, Sergejs Maslobojevs, Jurijs Orlovs, Raimonds Aukstikalnis, etc.) under coach Igors Tkačenko.
He is a multiple-time Latvian and Baltic champion in K-1 kickboxing, whose real breakthrough came in 2021 when he captured a WAK-1F Pro-Am World Championship belt in K-1: he went five rounds with Bodhin Winter in Riga and won by decision, calling it one of the toughest and most valuable victories of his career. He followed that by earning a bronze medal at the 2023 WAKO Amateur World Kickboxing Championships in Portugal, securing a world podium spot for Latvia.
Earlier in his career, Cherkesovs won gold at the Baltic Muay Thai Open in 2019 (75 kg division), defeating both Estonian and Lithuanian opponents to take the tournament title. That same year, he reached the semifinals of the IFMA European Muay Thai Championships, coming away with a bronze medal for Latvia.
In late 2024 Cherkesovs won a four-man professional tournament at the Yakuza Fight event in Estonia, marking an important milestone in his pro career. He even challenged for the WKN Baltic professional kickboxing title last season, narrowly dropping a decision.
At “BAZARA 0 Fight Club II”, Cherkesovs faced Polish fighter Damian Ciechanowski under B0 Kick Fight rules and finished him with a body shot in the second round. Then, at “BAZARA 0 Fight Club III”, he returned at Xiaomi Arena against Lithuanian fighter Vaidas Jagelavicius and again got the stoppage, this time by third-round TKO. The fight was competitive early, but Cherkesovs grew into it round by round. We can expect he’ll be seeking another victory again!
Jabbar Mustafayev represents Azerbaijan while currently being connected to the UAE combat sports scene. He enters this matchup with a professional record of 20 fights, 17 wins and 8 KOs.
Mustafayev’s career began in Ganja, Azerbaijan, at Champion Fight Club. From there, his development moved through the Azerbaijani national Muay Thai system in Baku and into a broader international training path. He has held camps across Azerbaijan, Belarus, Thailand, China and the UAE.
His career highlights include becoming a WMF Muay Thai World Champion in Bangkok in 2017, winning the IFMA Muay Thai European Cup in Antalya that same year, taking bronze at the 2011 IFMA World Championship in Tashkent, and finishing as vice-champion at the 2012 Muay Thai World Cup in Yalta. He also won the Eurasian Muay Thai Clubs Cup in Baku in 2017, became a seven-time Azerbaijan champion, received a Presidential Award, holds the title of International Master of Sports, and was named Best Athlete of 2018.
