Azerbaijan hosted the "Fight Night" professional boxing event sanctioned and controlled by Azerbaijan Professional Boxing Federation and organized by Baku Fight Lab. The boxing event is a promotion company engaged in arranging professional boxing fights in Azerbaijan and abroad and promoting Azerbaijani boxers worldwide.
The event brought together 16 Azerbaijani professional boxers. Along with fighters, athletes who have achievements in their amateur careers and debuted in the professional ring also participated in the fights. Azerbaijan Professional Boxing Federation controlled the conduction of the games under rules. The fights' results were added to the international boxing statistics by Boxrec and will become an important stage in the essentials' career.
"Azerbaijan Professional Boxing Federation is carrying out various works to develop this area. In February, together with the World Boxing Council (WBC), the Federation held international training for the first time. "Fight Night" was organized as a result of cooperation with the promotion company. "These are important achievements, and we will continue to work in this direction. Our goal is to support our professional boxers' development, their success, and popularization of our country in the international sports arena," stated Artyom Hasanov, the President of Azerbaijan Professional Boxing Federation.
Artyom Hasanov made a notable contribution to the event's organization, the President of Azerbaijan Professional Boxing Federation, First Vice-President Farhad Ajalov, Secretary-General Orkhan Mukhtarov, and Azerbaijani professional boxing promoter Ziya Aliyev.
"Fight Night" was held in the open air, without spectators and in compliance with all the special quarantine regime's requirements and safety rules. Specialists disinfected the area where fights took place before and during the event. All participants, including boxers, coaches, representatives of the Federation, administrative team, and all technical personnel, used protective face masks and disinfectants.
The event was sponsored by "Nar" mobile operator and "Zontes Baku," which sells and maintains Zontes-branded motorcycles in Azerbaijan. The organizational support was provided by "Azfar Group," which plays a vital role in developing various sports guided by the motto of a professional approach to amateur sports and the "Iyde" perfume house.
"Fight Night" will be broadcast on September 18 at 21:00 exclusively on CBC Sports TV.