ACA 208 card, start times and how to watch Shaikhaev vs Tumenov
ACA 208 full card, start times and how to watch Daud Shaikhaev vs Bibert Tumenov on Sunday, October 4 in Grozny, plus Abdulvakhabov vs Tibau.
ACA 208 puts sixteen fights on at the Sport Hall Colosseum in Grozny on Sunday, October 4, five on the main card and eleven on the prelims. The headliner is a five-round lightweight title fight that was supposed to happen in August, and the co-main sends a 22-2 lightweight up a division.
Daud Shaikhaev (18-5-1) and Bibert Tumenov (16-2) were first booked for ACA 206 on August 15, and the bout fell off that card. Tumenov has won six straight since a decision loss to Islam Omarov in March 2021, five of them inside the distance, the latest a first-round TKO of Alexander Grozin at ACA 200 in February. Shaikhaev is unbeaten since a five-round decision loss to Ali Bagov in June 2024 (two wins and a draw), and his last outing was a five-round unanimous decision over Herdeson Batista in January.
In the co-main, Abdul-Aziz Abdulvakhabov (22-2) fought his last three at lightweight, most recently knocking out Ali Bagov in the second round at ACA 189 in July 2025. He meets Gleison Tibau (40-19) at welterweight. Tibau is 42 and has 28 UFC fights on his record.
Start times
- Card begins: 6:00 a.m. ET (1:00 p.m. in Grozny and Moscow, 11:00 a.m. BST), Sunday, October 4
ACA publishes one start time for the event, not separate times for the prelims and the main card, and on September 29 it moved that time two hours earlier.
The full card
Main card
- Daud Shaikhaev vs Bibert Tumenov, lightweight (five rounds)
- Abdul-Aziz Abdulvakhabov vs Gleison Tibau, welterweight
- Abdul-Rakhman Dudaev vs Vicente Vargas, featherweight
- Kurban Taigibov vs Dzhambulat Selimkhanov, featherweight
- Adlan Ibragimov vs Sergey Starodub, light heavyweight
Prelims
- Rustam Kerimov vs Alexander Podlesniy, bantamweight
- Abdul-Rahman Dzhanaev vs Mikhail Dolgov, middleweight
- Kirill Grishenko vs Daniil Matsola, heavyweight
- Magomed Sulumov vs Sheymon Moraes, lightweight
- Uzair Abdurakov vs Herbert Batista, welterweight
- Timur Valiev vs Shamil Boraev, featherweight
- Yunus Evloev vs Francisco Figueiredo, bantamweight
- Murad Abdulaev vs Mark Hulme, middleweight
- Kurban Gadzhiev vs Umalat Israpilov, bantamweight
- Husein Kushagov vs Evgeny Erokhin, light heavyweight
- Ali Suleymanov vs Murad Khasaev, lightweight
Three of these bouts were added on September 27: Dudaev vs Vargas, Ibragimov vs Starodub and Grishenko vs Matsola. Five more prelims were added on September 28, and a sixth on September 29: Sheymon Moraes, whose last fight was a third-round TKO of Marlon Moraes at the PFL 2022 Championships in November 2022, meets Magomed Sulumov. Timur Valiev (19-5), whose last UFC fight was a decision loss to Jack Shore in March 2022, was also on the ACA 206 card before his bout there was scrapped.
How to watch
ACA has no territorial TV deals to look up. The card is sold worldwide on pay-per-view through ACA TV, and the promotion's ACA MMA channel on YouTube is its free worldwide outlet. The full listing is at how to watch ACA 208.
Make your picks at the ACA 208 pick'em, and every result lands on the event page as the card runs in Grozny.