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Company type | Private |
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Industry | Kickboxing MMA promotion |
Founded | 2009 [1] |
Founder | Dorin Damir |
Headquarters | Chisinau, Republic of Moldova |
Key people | Dorin Damir (President, Owner, Founder) [2] |
Website | www |
FEA, or Fighting Entertainment Association, is a European kickboxing and MMA promotion founded in 2009, which promotes and organizes professional K-1 and MMA tournaments. These projects are popular especially in Europe and CIS countries. The owner and the president of the organization is Dorin Damir.
There are up to six FEA events per year. Each tournament consists of 15 to 19 fights, including title fights, with fighters from all over the world, as well as local Moldovan fighters.
The most popular FEA K-1 fighters within the organization are Stanislav Renita (Moldova), Pavel Zhuravlev (Ukraine), Constantin Rusu (Moldova), Artur Kyshenko (Ukraine), Samir Boukhidous (The Netherlands), Mladen Kujundzic (Croatia), Sebastian Ciobanu (Romania), Sergei Lashchenko (Ukraine), Sem Braan (The Netherlands), Yana Kunitskaya (Russia), Constantin Țuțu (Moldova), Massaro Glunder (Netherlands), Dmitri Bezus (Ukraine), Sergey Kulyaba (Ukraine), Zakaria Zouggary (Morocco), Ibrahim El Bouni (Netherlands), Tsotne Rogava (Ukraine), Sebastian Cozmâncă (Romania), Radosław Paczuski (Poland), Armen Petrosyan(Italy), Dennis Wosik (Germany), Tomáš Hron ( Czech Republic), Freddy Kemayo (France), Simon Santana (Norway), Roman Kryklia (Ukraine/Belarus), Zhora Akopyan (Belarus/Armenia), Cristian Spetcu (Romania), Mikhail Tyuterev (Czech Republic), Mihajlo Kecojevic (Serbia), Nicolai Caraus (Moldova), Vitalie Matei (Moldova), Alexandr Burduja (Moldova) and Esma Hasshass (Morocco).
The most prominent FEA MMA fighters are Valeriu Mircea, Alexandr Romanov (undefeated), Arslan Eslemesov, [3] Martun Mezhlumyan, [4] Luca Poklit, [5] Mihail Sirbu, [6] Mehman Mammadov, [7] Dmytro Predebaylo, [8] Bogdan Barbu, [9]
The founder of FEA, Damir Dorin, got the idea of starting a professional fighting association back in the early 2000s, after visiting Japan and establishing a close relationship with the founder of K-1 fighting promotion Kazuyoshi Ishii. Eventually, in 2009 Dorin founded FEA and hosted the very first professional K-1 rules tournament in Chisinau, Moldova, which also included a Grand Prix tournament. The event was attended by K-1 stars like Ruslan Karaev and Artur Kishenko, chief referee of the tournament Ivan Ippolit and the president of the intercontinental federation BUSHIDO MMA and FEG representative in Europe, Donatas Simanaitis. This led to a partnership with the Lithuanian promotion IBF so in October of next year, FEA dabbled into MMA and organized a joint event, FEA Bushido FC, Moldova vs Europe, which consisted of both K-1 fights and MMA fights.
In December 2010, FEA together with IBF, started the King of Kings project, hosting 56 K-1 rules events in co-promotion over the following years and in numerous European cities. But the events which took place in Chisinau, Moldova, were fully under FEA responsibility.
In 2011 FEA registered the trademark “Fighting Eagles” [10] and organized another K-1 & MMA RULES tournament, including five fights in each section.
In 2016, February 27, FEA started a separate project, and trademarked the name EAGLES FIGHTING CHAMPIONSHIP, for a professional Mixed Martial Arts tournament, traditionally held in an octagonal cage. From that point on FEA organized approximatively three Eagles FC events every year.
The last co-promoted King of Kings event with FEA took place on 24 March 2018 and from then on FEA organized their own events under the name FEA Kickboxing.
FEA Kickboxing made its debut on the Ukrainian market on 24 August 2019 and hosted its event in Odesa. In December of the same year, FEA Kickboxing organized an event which included two Grand Prix tournaments, in the heavyweight and featherweight categories.
Due to the pandemic, all of the scheduled events for 2020 fell off.
In 2021, FEA resumed with a new concept and combined their two projects, FEA Kickboxing and Eagles Fighting Championship. Thus on March 13 of 2021, FEA technically hosted two events in one night: FEA Kickboxing Reset and Eagles FC Reset. Both took place in the cage and without an audience, due to restrictions.
On 13 November 2021 FEA repeated the same concept and hosted FEA Kickboxing, [11] FEA Keep Grinding tournament, [12] as well as Eagles FC Danger Zone [13] on the same day.
In 2022 FEA decided to undergo a rebranding and renamed both their K-1 rules project and the MMA project to "FEA Championship". The decision surrounding the change of EAGLES FC is partly rooted in the fact that Khabib Nurmagomedov started his own fighting project in 2020 and named it similarly (Eagle FC) which created confusion among fans and experts. Further, this also helped to unite FEA's two projects under a single name.
Events were previously broadcast by Fightbox, [14] Eurosport, Canal2, Canal3, [15] Prime, 1+1 VIDEO, [16] SPORT+, XSPORT and other cable operators. Currently, FEA has its own live streaming platform, feafights.tv. [17]
Former and current commentators include Sandy Holt, Valentin Halacenco, Daniel Austin, Łukasz Czarnowski, Celian Varini, Daniel Kendrik, Gheorghiu Ivan, Nikita Vlasov, Pavel Zhuravlev, Vitalii Hurkov.
The ring announcers of FEA K1 are Rytis Kuzmenka, Michael Richie Diamz and Vladimir Marcoci.
The cage announcers for FEA MMA are Anatol Cotrobai, Michael Richie Diamz and Vladimir Marcoci.
At the moment FEA K-1 operates with the following weigh divisions.
Weight class name | Upper limit | Gender |
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STRAWWEIGHT | 52 kg | Female |
FEATHERWEIGHT | 65 kg | Male |
BANTAMWEIGHT | 60 kg | Male |
LIGHTWEIGHT | 71 kg | Male |
WELTERWEIGHT | 77 kg | Male |
MIDDLEWEIGHT | 85 kg | Male |
LIGHT HEAVYWEIGHT | 95 kg | Male |
HEAVYWEIGHT | No limit | Male |
Currently FEA MMA has the following active weigh classes.
Weight class name | Upper limit | Gender |
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STRAWWEIGHT | 52 kg | Female |
FLYWEIGHT | 57 kg | Male |
BANTAMWEIGHT | 61 kg | Male |
FEATHERWEIGHT | 65 kg | Male |
LIGHTWEIGHT | 70 kg | Male |
WELTERWEIGHT | 77 kg | Male |
MIDDLEWEIGHT | 84 kg | Male |
LIGHT HEAVYWEIGHT | 93 kg | Male |
HEAVYWEIGHT | 120 kg | Male |
The rules can be read on the following website. [18]
The rules can be read on the following website. [19]
# | Event | Date | Venue | Location |
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4 | FEA FEA «EQUINOX»! | September 23, 2023 | Ciorescu Futsal Arena | ![]() |
3 | FEA CHAMPIONSHIP TAKE OFF ! | April 8, 2023 | Ciorescu Futsal Arena | ![]() |
2 | FEA Championship Full-Drive! | December 17, 2022 | Ciorescu Futsal Arena | ![]() |
1 | FEA CHAMPIONSHIP. LOADING TOURNAMENT. | September 17, 2022 | Circus Chisinau | ![]() |
# | Event | Date | Venue | Location |
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32 | FEA Keepgrinding 2 | November 13, 2021 | Ciorescu Futsal Arena | ![]() |
31 | FEA Kickboxing Reset | March 13, 2022 | Ciorescu Futsal Arena | ![]() |
30 | FEA Kickboxing WGP | December 7, 2019 | Ciorescu Futsal Arena | ![]() |
29 | FEA WORLD GP ODESSA. Keep Grinding | August 24, 2019 | Palace of Sports Odesa | ![]() |
28 | FEA WGP vol.28 | March 30, 2019 | Manej Sport Arena | ![]() |
27 | FEA 27 K-1 Rules | December 8, 2018 | Manej Sport Arena | ![]() |
26 | FEA WGP vol.26 | October 6, 2018 | Manej Sport Arena | ![]() |
25 | KOK WORLD GP Vol, 56 | March 24, 2018 | Manej Sport Arena | ![]() |
24 | KOK WORLD GP Vol. 53 | December 9, 2017 | Manej Sport Arena | ![]() |
23 | KOK WORLD GP Vol.48 | September 30, 2017 | Manej Sport Arena | ![]() |
22 | KOK WORLD GP Vol.46 | April 1, 2017 | Manej Sport Arena | ![]() |
21 | KOK WORLD GP Vol.42 | December 10, 2016 | Manej Sport Arena | ![]() |
20 | KOK WORLD GP Light Heavyweight tournament | October 1, 2016 | Manej Sport Arena | ![]() |
19 | KOK WGP Middleweight Tournament in Moldova | April 9, 2016 | Manej Sport Arena | ![]() |
18 | KOK WGP Welterweight Tournament EAGLES SERIES | December 19, 2015 | Manej Sport Arena | ![]() |
17 | KOK WGP Heavyweight Tournament. EAGLES SERIES | September 26, 2015 | Manej Sport Arena | ![]() |
16 | KOK WORLD GP Middleweight Tournament | April 4, 2015 | Manej Sport Arena | ![]() |
15 | KOK WORLD GP Heavyweight Tournament. Eagles Series | December 20, 2014 | Manej Sport Arena | ![]() |
14 | KOK WORLD GP Featherweight tournament | September 19, 2014 | Manej Sport Arena | ![]() |
13 | KOK WORLD GP Middleweight Tournament | March 22, 2014 | Manej Sport Arena | ![]() |
12 | EAGLES KOK WORLD SERIES | December 14, 2013 | Manej Sport Arena | ![]() |
11 | KOK WORLD GP Middleweight Tournament | September 28, 2013 | Manej Sport Arena | ![]() |
10 | K-1 World Light Heavyweight Tournament | March 30, 2013 | Manej Sport Arena | ![]() |
9 | "FIGHTING EAGLES" EUROPE SERIES K-1 & MMA RULES | December 15, 2012 | Manej Sport Arena | ![]() |
8 | KOK WORLD GP LIGHTWEIGHT TOURNAMENT | September 29, 2012 | Manej Sport Arena | ![]() |
7 | K.O.K. EUROPE GRAND PRIX Light Welterweight | March 30, 2012 | Manej Sport Arena | ![]() |
6 | FIGHTING EAGLES. EUROPE SERIES K-1 & MMA RULES | December 10, 2011 | Manej Sport Arena | ![]() |
5 | K.O.K. WORLD GRAND PRIX LIGHT HEAVYWEIGHT | October 10, 2011 | Manej Sport Arena | ![]() |
4 | K.O.K. EUROPE GRAND PRIX | April 16, 2011 | Manej Sport Arena | ![]() |
3 | K.O.K. WORLD GRAND PRIX | December 11, 2010 | USEFS Universitatea de Stat de Educaţie Fizică şi Sport | ![]() |
2 | FEA Bushido FC Moldova VS Europe | October 9, 2010 | USEFS Universitatea de Stat de Educaţie Fizică şi Sport | ![]() |
1 | GRAND PRIX FEA | December 18, 2009 | Drive Club | ![]() |
# | Event | Date | Venue | Location |
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19 | EAGLES FC DANGER ZONE [20] | November 13, 2021 | Futsal Arena | ![]() |
18 | EAGLES RESET | March 13, 2021 | Futsal Arena | ![]() |
17 | EAGLES NEXT LEVEL [21] | February 15, 2020 | Futsal Arena | ![]() |
16 | EAGLES ELIMINATION | October 26, 2019 | Circul de Stat din Chișinău | ![]() |
15 | EAGLES ELIMINATION SUMMER EDITION | June 22, 2019 | Circul de Stat din Chișinău | ![]() |
14 | EAGLES 11 | February 16, 2019 | Manej Sport Arena | ![]() |
13 | EAGLES 10. Elimination Tournament & Fighting Championship | November 1, 2018 | Manej Sport Arena | ![]() |
12 | EAGLES 9 | May 26, 2018 | Manej Sport Arena | ![]() |
11 | EAGLES 8 | February 10, 2018 | Manej Sport Arena | ![]() |
10 | EAGLES 7 Elimination Tournament & Fighting Championship | November 4, 2017 | Manej Sport Arena | ![]() |
9 | EAGLES 6. Russia VS Moldova | June 24, 2017 | General Media Group | ![]() |
8 | EAGLES 5. Elimination Tournament & Fighting Championship [22] | May 20, 2017 | General Media Group | ![]() |
7 | EAGLES 4. Elimination Tournament & Fighting Championship | February 18, 2017 | General Media Group | ![]() |
6 | EAGLES 3. Elimination Tournament & Fighting Championship | November 14, 2016 | General Media Group | ![]() |
5 | EAGLES 2. Elimination Tournament & Fighting Championship | May 27, 2016 | General Media Group | ![]() |
4 | EAGLES 1. Fighting Championship [23] | February 27, 2016 | General Media Group | ![]() |
3 | "FIGHTING EAGLES" EUROPE SERIES K-1 & MMA RULES | December 15, 2012 | Manej Sport Arena | ![]() |
2 | FIGHTING EAGLES. EUROPE SERIES K-1 & MMA RULES | December 10, 2011 | Manej Sport Arena | ![]() |
1 | FEA Bushido FC Moldova VS Europe | October 18, 2010 | USEFS | ![]() |
FEA K-1 Rankings [24]
FEA MMA Rankings (ex. EAGLES FC) [25]
Weight class | Upper weight limit | Champion | Event | Date | Title defenses |
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Heavyweight | Unlimited | ![]() def. Cristian Ristea | FEA Reset | March 13, 2021 | |
Light heavyweight | 95 kg (209.4 lb) | ![]() def. Alexandru Burduja | FEA CHAMPIONSHIP FULL DRIVE | December 17, 2022 | |
Middleweight | 85 kg (187.4 lb) | Vacant | |||
Welterweight | 77 kg (169.8 lb) | ![]() def. Dorel Crisitian | FEA 28 | March 30, 2019 | |
Lightweight | 71 kg (156.5 lb) | ![]() def. Calin Petrisor | FEA EQUINOX | September 23, 2023 | |
Featherweight | 65 kg (143.3 lb) | ![]() def. Adrian Maxim | FEA CHAMPIONSHIP TAKE OFF | April 8, 2023 | |
Bantamweight | 60 kg (132.3 lb) | Vacant | |||
Women's strawweight | 52 kg (114.6 lb) | ![]() def. Hasmik Asatryan | FEA CHAMPIONSHIP FULL DRIVE | December 17, 2022 | |
Weight Class | Champion | Runner-up | Event | Date | Location |
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Middleweight | ![]() | ![]() | FEA WORLD GRAND PRIX | December 18, 2009 | ![]() |
Middleweight | ![]() | ![]() | 2010 FEA KOK World Grand Prix Championship | December 11, 2010 | ![]() |
Middleweight | ![]() | ![]() | 2011 FEA Middleweight Championship | April 16, 2011 | ![]() |
Lightweight | ![]() | ![]() | 2011 FEA Lightweight Tournament | April 16, 2011 | ![]() |
Middleweight | ![]() | ![]() | 2011 FEA KOK World GP 2011 in Chișinău - Middleweight Tournament, Final | October 1, 2011 | ![]() |
Featherweight | ![]() | ![]() | 2012 FEA Featherweight Tournament | March 30, 2012 | ![]() |
Lightweight | ![]() | ![]() | 2012 FEA Lightweight Tournament | September 29, 2012 | ![]() |
K-1 Light Heavyweight | ![]() | ![]() | 2013 K-1 World Grand Prix 2013 in Moldova - Light Heavyweight Tournament, | March 30, 2013 | ![]() |
Lightweight | ![]() | ![]() | 2013 FEA Lightweight Tournament | September 28, 2013 | ![]() |
Heavyweight | ![]() | ![]() | 2013 FEA Heavyweight Tournament | December 14, 2013 | ![]() |
Middleweight | ![]() | ![]() | 2014 FEA KOK MIDDLEWEIGHT TOURNAMENT | March 22, 2014 | ![]() |
Featherweight | ![]() | ![]() | 2014 FEA Featherweight Tournament | September 19, 2014 | ![]() |
Middleweight | ![]() | ![]() | 2014 FEA TITLE FIGHT | September 19, 2014 | ![]() |
Heavyweight | ![]() | ![]() | 2014 FEA KOK Heavyweight Tournament | December 20, 2014 | ![]() |
Middleweight | ![]() | ![]() | 2015 FEA KOK Middleweight Tournament | April 4, 2015 | ![]() |
Featherweight | ![]() | ![]() | 2015 FEA KOK Featherweight Tournament | September 26, 2015 | ![]() |
Welterweight | ![]() | ![]() | 2015 FEA KOK WGP Welterweight Tournament | December 19, 2015 | ![]() |
Welterweight | ![]() | ![]() | 2015 FEA KOK TITLE FIGHT | December 19, 2015 | ![]() |
Featherweight | ![]() | ![]() | 2016 FEA KOK TITLE FIGHT | April 9, 2016 | ![]() |
Light Heavyweight 95 kg | ![]() | ![]() | 2016 FEA KOK Light Heavyweight WGP | October 1, 2016 | ![]() |
Middleweight | ![]() | ![]() | 2016 FEA KOK Middleweight WGP | December 10, 2016 | ![]() |
Lightweight | ![]() | ![]() | 2017 FEA KOK Lightweight WGP | April 1, 2017 | ![]() |
Ligh heavyweight 95 kg | ![]() | ![]() | 2017 FEA KOK Ligh heavyweight WGP | September 30, 2017 | ![]() |
Lightweight | ![]() | ![]() | 2017 FEA KOK Lightweight Title Fight | December 9, 2017 | ![]() |
Featherweight | ![]() | ![]() | 2018 FEA Featherweight WGP | March 24, 2018 | ![]() |
Welterweight | ![]() | ![]() | 2018 FEA KOK Welterweight Tournament GP | March 24, 2018 | ![]() |
Women's strawweight 52 kg | ![]() | ![]() | 2018 FEA KOKTitle Fight | March 24, 2018 | ![]() |
Lightweight | ![]() | ![]() | 2018 FEA World Series | October 6, 2018 | ![]() |
Heavyweight | ![]() | ![]() | 2018 FEA 26 World Series | October 6, 2018 | ![]() |
Featherweight | ![]() | ![]() | 2018 FEA 27 WGP | December 8, 2018 | ![]() |
FEA LIGHT HEAVYWEIGHT 95 kg | ![]() | ![]() | 2018 FEA 27 WGP 4 Man Light Heavyweight Tournament | December 8, 2018 | ![]() |
Featherweight | ![]() | ![]() | 2018 FEA 27 WGP 4 Man Light Heavyweight Tournament | March 30, 2019 | ![]() |
Welterweight | ![]() | ![]() | 2019 FEA 27 WGP 4 Man Light Heavyweight Tournament | December 8, 2018 | ![]() |
Interim heavyweight FEA TITLE FIGHT | ![]() | ![]() | 2019 FEA WGP Odessa KEEPGRINDING | August 24, 2019 | ![]() |
Lightweight | ![]() | ![]() | 2019 FEA WGP Odessa KEEPGRINDING 4 Man Lightweight Tournament | August 24, 2019 | ![]() |
Featherweight | ![]() | ![]() | 2019 FEA WGP Chisinau 4 Man Featherweight | December 7, 2019 | ![]() |
Heavyweight | ![]() | ![]() | 2019 FEA WGP Chisinau 4 Man Featherweight | December 7, 2019 | ![]() |
Lightweight | ![]() | ![]() | 2021 FEA KICKBOXING RESET WGP 4 Man Lightweight Tournament | March 13, 2021 | ![]() |
Heavyweight | ![]() | ![]() | 2021 FEA KICKBOXING RESET WORLD HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPIONSHIP | March 13, 2021 | ![]() |
Women's strawweight | ![]() | ![]() | 2022 FEA CHAMPIONSHIP FULL DRIVE | December 17, 2022 | ![]() |
Light Heavyweight | ![]() | ![]() | 2022 FEA CHAMPIONSHIP FULL DRIVE | December 17, 2022 | ![]() |
Featherweight | ![]() | ![]() | 2023 FEA CHAMPIONSHIP TAKE OFF | April 8, 2023 | ![]() |
Lightweight | ![]() | ![]() | 2023 FEA CHAMPIONSHIP EQUINOX | September 23, 2023 | ![]() |
Weight class | Upper weight limit | Champion | Event | Date | Title defenses |
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Heavyweight | Unlimited | ![]() def. Alexander Stolyarov | EAGLES 8 | February 10, 2018 | |
Light heavyweight | 93 kg (205.0 lb) | Vacant | |||
Middleweight | 84 kg (185.2 lb) | ![]() def. Egor Ivanov | EAGLES ELIMINATION SUMMER EDITION | June 22, 2019 | |
Welterweight | 77 kg (169.8 lb) | ![]() def. Sergiu Barbarosa | EAGLES 7 | November 4, 2017 | |
Lightweight | 71 kg (156.5 lb) | ![]() def. Valeriu Mircea | EAGLES NEXT LEVEL | February 15, 2020 | |
Featherweight | 66 kg (145.5 lb) | ![]() def. Andrei Barbarosau | EAGLES 11 | February 16, 2019 | |
Bantamweight | 61 kg (134.5 lb) | ![]() def. Bogdan Barbu | EAGLES NEXT LEVEL | February 15, 2020 | |
Flyweight | 57 kg (125.7 lb) | ![]() def. Evgheniy Sibirskiy-Manko | EAGLES RESET | March 13, 2021 | |
Women's strawweight | 52 kg (114.6 lb) | Vacant | |||
Weight Class | Champion | Runner-up | Event | Date | Defences | Location |
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Lightweight | ![]() | ![]() | EAGLES FC 3 | November 19, 2016 | November 3, 2018 | ![]() |
Welterweight | ![]() | ![]() | EAGLES IV | February 18, 2017 | ![]() | |
Bantamweight | ![]() | ![]() | EAGLES V | May 20, 2017 | May 26, 2018 | ![]() |
Welterweight | ![]() | ![]() | EAGLES VII | November 4, 2017 | ![]() | |
Interim Heavyweight | ![]() | ![]() | EAGLES VII | February 10, 2018 | ![]() | |
Bantamweight | ![]() | ![]() | EAGLES IX | May 26, 2018 | ![]() | |
Interim Bantamweight | ![]() | ![]() | EAGLES IX | May 26, 2018 | ![]() | |
Lightweight | ![]() | ![]() | EAGLES 10 | November 3, 2018 | ![]() | |
Interim Bantamweight | ![]() | ![]() | EAGLES 10 | November 3, 2018 | ![]() | |
Featherweight | ![]() | ![]() | EAGLES 11 | February 16, 2019 | ![]() | |
Interim Middleweight | ![]() | ![]() | EAGLES ELIMINATION | October 26, 2019 | ![]() | |
Lightweight | ![]() | ![]() | EAGLES NEXT LEVEL | February 15, 2020 | ![]() | |
Bantamweight | ![]() | ![]() | EAGLES NEXT LEVEL | February 15, 2020 | ![]() | |
Flyweight | ![]() | ![]() | EAGLES RESET | March 13, 2021 | ![]() | |
Interim Featherweight | ![]() | ![]() | FEA CHAMPIONSHIP TAKE OFF | April 8, 2023 | ![]() |
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