OKTAGON Owner Pavol Neruda: Breaking Records and Making MMA History

Europe’s biggest MMA organisation OKTAGON is set to make combat sports history. On October 12th, they are determined to sell out a 58,000 seated Eintracht Frankfurt stadium for their OKTAGON 62 event – which will break the UFC’s record for the highest attended MMA show to date!

After beating the UFC’s record for the biggest MMA event in Germany last year, CEO Pavol Neruda hopes that breaking the UFC’s record for most attended MMA event of all time will cement them in MMA history.

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OKTAGON Owner Pavol Neruda on beating UFC records and cementing themselves as ‘Number 2’ in the World

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• We have nearly sold 50,000 tickets at the Eintracht Frankfurt stadium show
• Beating the UFC’s attendance record would cement us as the next best MMA promotion in the world

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OKTAGON MMA is Europe’s premier MMA promotion, and having recently sold out Prague’s Eden Stadium in a show which saw 28,000 fans in attendance, their stock continues to rise. 

Next up for the Czech and Slovakian promotion is a 58,000 seater event at Frankfurt’s Deutsche Bank Park Stadium, which would see them make MMA history, surpassing the UFC’s record for the highest attended MMA event of all time.

OKTAGON MMA co-owner Pavol Neruda, commented:

“It is absolutely unbelievable, we feel so grateful for the fans and the position they have afforded us in Germany. It is really not easy to sell even 20,000.

“We are selling that amount regularly in Czechia, Germany and Slovakia. It might look easy, because we are so lucky to have people here, but in the end it is a lot of effort that needs to be put in to make it happen.

“When we announced the Eintracht Frankfurt stadium move, we did not know what to expect. It is a huge stadium, a colosseum and an unbelievably huge venue.

“We were honestly thinking that if we could get more than 40,000 people in there, then anything above would be a success. It is our first stadium show here and it is absolutely massive. After two months, we have 50,000.

“It is absolutely crazy, mind-blowing and still selling really well and tracking towards an even bigger number. There are just 8,000 left until we break the world record for the highest attended MMA event in the history of the sport, so we are so close and that would mean so much.

“We thought we had strong momentum after selling the biggest arena in Cologne, and that now was the time to do a huge stadium – even if we thought it might be too much. It took a lot of courage, but we now see that momentum was right.

“We sold 50,000 tickets and people in Germany now want to talk with us. All of the big sponsors are keen to chat to us because they want to be there with us. We are negotiating a huge TV deal that would make us very big in Germany if it is a success, and we also have something incredible planned for the halftime show.

“We now have a really huge name locked in for that, it is one of the biggest German stars from the music industry and it will underline what we are trying to say to people. We are a family entertainment, we are for you.

“We know some people might be hesitant because it is MMA, but now the world can see this event is for everyone.”

Beating the UFC’s highest attendance record would cement us as the next best MMA promotion in the world

“It would mark an absolutely huge milestone in the growth and the maturity of OKTAGON as a company. This will be a huge step for us, and it will tell the world how huge we are.

“People will stop underestimating us; we tell people how big we are, that we are the biggest MMA promotion in Europe, but people are always reluctant to believe us and want us to calm down a little bit. I understand that people don’t know us so they are allowed to be a bit hesitant or reluctant.

“But this will make it undisputed and undeniable just how big we are. If we break the world record, it would be heard around the globe. Everyone in the sport will know about this and it will really put us as an organisation on the map of MMA fans around the world.

“From that moment, I think it will be clear to everyone that we are the second biggest promotion in the world after the UFC, because no one else is doing what we are doing. KSW are doing really well, selling good numbers of tickets and have their own records they have set as well, but we will be bigger.

“We have sold more tickets throughout the year and that would cement our place as Number 2 in the world.” 

OKTAGON 62 heads to Frankfurt’s Deutsche Bank Park for an historic event, and fans can secure their tickets, by visiting HERE.