“BAZARA 0 Fight Club III” will take place on January 10, 2026 at Riga’s 14,500-seat Xiaomi Arena. This card is presented in partnership with OlyBet Sports Bar and will feature international talent from both the Baltics and all across the world.
Raimonds Aukštikalnis
1.30
3.20
Ahmet Kilic
The 8th fight announcement on an already packed card is Latvian Raimonds Aukštikalnis against Turkish fighter Ahmet Kilic!
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Raimonds Aukštikalnis (25–4, 4 KO) is a Latvian kickboxer who has, most notably, competed regularly on the KOK fight series and trains under coach Igors Tkačenko. His most significant titles include being the KOK 85 kg Grand Prix Champion (2018), the WKN European Super Middleweight Champion (~2020–2021) and Yakuza Fight 6 & 8 Champion. Outside the ring, Aukštikalnis balances professional fighting with his work as a firefighter and as a personal trainer.
He debuted on the KOK circuit in 2016 and amassed several wins in the following years. In late 2017 he scored early-round knockouts over Adam Wiesniew and Ignas Vaisvila. He then captured the KOK middleweight tournament in early 2018, winning unanimous decisions over Mike Sprangh at KOK 54 in Riga and over Tomas Steponkevičius at KOK 59 in Kaunas. Raimonds’ KOK 54 victory was billed as a title bout for the tournament championship.
Aukštikalnis challenged for a KOK middleweight world title in 2019 but was edged by Finland’s Daniel Forsberg. He was ranked as the #1 KOK middleweight contender in 2019 heading into his world title shot, but Forsberg defeated him by split decision at KOK 61 in Riga, 2018, and again by unanimous decision at KOK 71 in Helsinki, 2019. Later in 2019, Aukstikalnis fell to Jurijs Orlovs in the KOK World Grand Prix.
Beyond KOK, Aukštikalnis has become a face on the Estonian Yakuza Fight circuit. In March 2024 he travelled to Rakvere for Yakuza Fight 6: New Era and won the four-man K-1 tournament at 80 kg, taking two victories in one night: a semifinal win over Marko Šults followed by a knockout of Dmitry Salamatin in the tournament final. This earned him the Yakuza Fight 80 kg championship and set up a clash at Yakuza Fight 8: Champions in Tallinn, where he stopped Ričardas Kulis by KO to remain a Yakuza Fight champion.
Ahmet Kilic (spelled Ahmet Kılıç in Turkish) is a middleweight fighter who has competed internationally in kickboxing and Muay Thai, and holds a record of 27–7, with 14 KOs. Kilic has competed across a wide range from 77 kg (welterweight) to 86 kg (middleweight) and has fought for multiple promotions across Europe and Central Asia, such as KOK, Alash Pride FC, FKR PRO, RCC, MFP, Grand Bellagio Championship and Tetragon Fight Arena. He is a Kazakhstan International Alash Pride 81 kg Belt Champion.
In a 2020 interview with Anadolu Agency, Kilic stated that he started kickboxing at 16 and had been in the sport for six years by that point. He reported 17 professional bouts with 15 wins, 10 of them by knockout, in his first year on the professional circuit.
Local coverage from Turkish newspapers and national outlets centres on one specific breakout performance: in March of 2019, Kilic stopped an Iranian fighter Mahdi Shami, a Muay Thai world champion from 2017, in roughly half a minute.
Kilic’s early professional momentum was closely tied to the KOK Turkey events in Sakarya. After Shami, he returned for the KOK Fight Series event in Istanbul later in 2019 and stopped Muhammad Karimov by first-round TKO at middleweight. He fought at KOK 76 “Turkey vs Russia” in Sakarya, defeating Hoessein Mollamahdi of Iran by split decision at –77 kg in a three-round bout. At the follow-up event, he moved up to –81 kg and forced a second-round TKO.
From 2021 onwards, a significant part of Kilic’s resume has come from fights in Central Asia and Russia against opponents with established credentials, which is why a large portion of his internationally visible record is clustered there. In November of 2022, at FKR PRO 1 in Moscow, he met Russian Muay Thai specialist Islam Murtazaev and lost by TKO in the first round. Murtazaev is a former EM Legend world champion at –75 kg and has competed for the ONE Championship lightweight kickboxing world title, so that bout is one of the higher-calibre names on Kilic’s record.
Both Raimonds Aukštikalnis and Ahmet Kilic have faced the same fighter, Reon “The Beast” Wong, creating a direct comparison point: Aukštikalnis defeated Wong by decision, but Kilic lost to Wong by decision.
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