Oktagon 94, Cage Warriors 210 and BKFC 94 preview and predictions

Saturday, September 26 has three European main cards starting at exactly the same minute. OKTAGON 94 in Frankfurt, Cage Warriors 210 in Dublin and BKFC 94 in Manchester all send their main cards out at 18:00 UTC, which is 8:00 p.m. in Frankfurt, 7:00 p.m. in Dublin and Manchester, and 2:00 p.m. on the US east coast. Oktagon and Cage Warriors start their prelims two hours earlier. The UFC card in Las Vegas does not start until three hours after that, so if you have a second screen, this is the afternoon to use it.

Broadcasters for each show are in our how-to-watch pieces for Oktagon 94, Cage Warriors 210 and BKFC 94. This one is about who wins, and I am going to commit to a method on every fight that deserves one.

OKTAGON 94: Frankfurt against the Czechs

Oktagon has taken this one to Deutsche Bank Park, a football stadium, and built the main card like a club fixture: two Frankfurt fighters from the same gym, MMA Spirit, and two Czech veterans from Reinders MMA.

Christian Eckerlin (18-8) vs David Kozma (34-15), welterweight

The home fighter in the headliner of a stadium show is the underdog. Kozma is around minus 147 and Eckerlin around plus 115, and that line has barely moved since it opened. Eckerlin is from Frankfurt and turns 40 in November. His last three fights: a TKO loss to Robert Pukač in the third round in June 2025, a first-round TKO loss to Ivica Trušček that October, then a decision win over Matouš Kohout in March. Before that slide he beat Christian Jungwirth over five rounds.

Kozma, 34, went the other way: first-round knockout losses in June 2024 and February 2025, then two decision wins in a row, over Jozef Wittner in February and David Zawada on August 1. Here is the part I keep coming back to. The man who stopped Kozma in February 2025 was also Pukač, four months before he stopped Eckerlin. Both headliners have been finished by the same fighter inside a year, and that fighter is on the prelims of this card.

Kozma has 49 pro fights and has been stopped enough times to be hittable, but his recent run is about staying on the right side of three rounds, and Eckerlin's last two losses were both stoppages.

Prediction: Kozma by decision. Eckerlin at plus 115 in front of his own city is the kind of underdog I would not talk anyone out of.

Frederic Vosgröne (5-0) vs Karlos Vemola (38-9), catchweight 89 kg

This is the fight I would actually pay to see. Vosgröne is unbeaten in five, and his last two ended by submission, one in the first round against Fabio Moraes and one in the second against Jorick Montagnac. He also carries an 8-4 record in professional submission grappling, which is unusual depth for a five-fight MMA prospect.

Vemola is 41, has 47 professional fights and has spent the last two years trading results: a knockout loss to Samuel Krištofič, a submission win over Attila Végh, a decision loss to Will Fleury, and then the Végh trilogy win on points in June 2025. He has not fought since. The market has Vosgröne around minus 125 with Vemola near even, and the opener was closer than that, so money has come in on the unbeaten man.

The question is whether Vemola, at 41 and 15 months out of the cage, can keep a man with that grappling record from finding something. I do not think Vosgröne needs long.

Prediction: Vosgröne by submission, round two.

Max Coga (27-8-1) vs Christian Jungwirth (16-9), welterweight

Coga is the second MMA Spirit man from Frankfurt, and the concern is simple: his last fight was a second-round TKO of Antun Račić in October 2024, almost two years ago. Jungwirth lost a five-round decision to Michal Materla in April and has already been in there with Eckerlin and twice with Pukač, so ring rust will not be his problem. Coga is around minus 145.

Prediction: Coga by decision, with the caveat that a 23-month layoff is exactly the kind of thing that makes a minus 145 look silly.

The Oktagon undercard

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The name most people will recognize on the prelims is Marc Diakiese (18-8), the former UFC lightweight, who meets Fedor Duric (10-1). Diakiese was knocked out in the first round by Gadzhi Rabadanov in the PFL in April 2025, and he has not fought since. Duric is 22, from the same MMA Spirit room as Eckerlin and Coga, and has won three of his last four, finishing Petru Buzdugan by submission and Tomáš Mudroch by TKO. The books have Duric around minus 319, which is a steep price against a former UFC fighter, but the layoff and the knockout are real.

Prediction: Duric by decision.

Then there is Pukač, the man who beat both headliners. He meets Jaime Cordero, who has won four straight inside two rounds, two by submission and two by TKO, including a first-round TKO of Krištofič last October. Cordero is around minus 147, Pukač around plus 115. Pukač also dropped a decision to Patrik Kincl in December before beating Brian Manning in June, so he is not unbeatable, and his stoppage of Eckerlin came in the third round, so he does not fade either.

Prediction: Cordero by TKO, round one. If he does not get Pukač out early, I would reverse the pick.

The stand-and-bang bout at 80 kg puts Dominic Schober (16-15), who has lost his last four, against Edmon Avagyan, whose record lists one professional boxing win and one Oktagon win. Schober is the favorite around minus 175. I will pass on picking a striking-only bout between a four-fight losing streak and a man with two pro fights, which is probably the most honest sentence in this preview.

Cage Warriors 210: Dublin keeps changing

The Cage Warriors card that walks out at the RDS Arena is not the card that was announced. Paddy McCorry was booked against Julio Spadaccini, Maximus Lally against Aidan Stephen, Ger Harris against Michelangelo Lupoli at flyweight and Conor McCarthy against Torpal Merjoev. All four have new opponents, and three other bouts are off entirely. Our event page carries the full change log.

Paddy McCorry (8-1) vs Gustavo Sousa (6-2), middleweight

McCorry won his Dana White's Contender Series fight last September on all three cards, 30-27 across the board over Hwang In-su, and came back to Cage Warriors to stop Dario Bellandi in the first round in February. He has won his last four. Sousa is 28, from Salvador, and his last two fights in Jungle Fight both ended in the first round by submission, one a win and one a loss, the loss to Oton Jasse on June 6. He also has a 3-4 kickboxing record, which tells you where he is more comfortable.

McCorry is around minus 645. There is not much to argue with.

Prediction: McCorry by TKO, round one.

Maximus Lally (6-0) vs João Pedro Saldanha (18-7), featherweight

Lally is 23, unbeaten, and has finished two of his last three by first-round submission, with a split decision over Ben Ellis in between. Saldanha has four times as many pro fights, but his last four have gone win, loss, win, loss, and both losses were third-round TKOs. The books have Lally around minus 717, which is a lot to lay on a 6-0 fighter against an 18-7 veteran.

Prediction: Lally by submission, round one.

Ger Harris (7-4) vs Anderson Soares (15-7), bantamweight

Harris was supposed to fight at flyweight and now fights at bantamweight against a Brazilian with twice his pro fights. He knocked out Kayck Alencar in the first round in June. Harris opened around minus 271 and has drifted to minus 240, one of the few lines on this card moving toward the underdog.

Prediction: Harris by decision.

BKFC 94: nine left in Manchester

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BKFC lost three bouts from this card this week, Liam Dooley vs Tyrone Hamer, Benjamin Lowe vs Dan McGraffin and Luke Bassnett vs Darren Willans, so the AO Arena gets nine fights instead of twelve. Three of the nine are for titles.

Darren Till vs Yoel Romero, cruiserweight

Both men are 1-0 in BKFC, and both won their debuts by second-round TKO: Till over Aaron Chalmers in Birmingham on May 30, Romero over Theo Doukas in Hollywood last September. Till is 33. Romero is 49. The market has made up its mind hard: Till opened around minus 237 and is now around minus 305, with Romero around plus 231. We covered that move in detail earlier this week.

Romero's case is the same one it has been for a decade: he only needs one moment. Bare knuckle gives him more of those, because every clean punch lands on skin rather than padding. Till's case is that he is 16 years younger in a fight between two southpaws of the same height, so nothing about the geometry hands the older man an edge. Five two-minute rounds is a short fight, which helps a 49-year-old's gas tank, and I still cannot talk myself into it.

Prediction: Till by TKO, round three.

David Mundell vs Jack Cullen, middleweight title

Mundell is 10-2 in bare knuckle, the most experienced man on the card, but his last fight was a fourth-round knockout loss to Lorenzo Hunt at Knucklemania VI in February. Cullen is 2-0 in BKFC, both stoppages, and 8-5-1 as a professional boxer. Mundell is around minus 145, and this is the most interesting fight in Manchester.

Prediction: Mundell by decision.

The other two title fights are Gaz Corran vs Macauley Bygraves at middleweight, with Corran around minus 200, and Karl Thompson vs Andy Thornton at cruiserweight, which is priced close to even. One more line worth a look: Ste Wallwork opened as a slight favorite over Leigh Cohoon and is now the underdog around plus 105.

Predictions: Corran by TKO; Thompson by decision.

That is 12 picks across three shows on the same afternoon. Set yours on the pick'em for Oktagon 94, Cage Warriors 210 and BKFC 94, and come back on Sunday to see how badly I did.