From the rootsto the summit

Eduard Vartanyan

An ethnic Armenian born in Yerevan, competing under Russian sporting citizenship. One of the most decorated lightweights in the post-Soviet space and a co-founder of ARMAT Fight Show. A combat sambo product — Moscow combat sambo champion in 2008 and a Combat Sambo World Cup winner. In September 2017 at ACB 71 in Moscow he beat Andrey Koshkin by unanimous decision to become the first interim ACB Lightweight Champion in the promotion's history. The headline career title is the 2022 ACA Lightweight Grand Prix. The final ran on June 16, 2023, at ACA 159: Vartanyan stopped Artem Reznikov by TKO in the third. The run pushed him into the world top-15 at lightweight on Fight Matrix and into the Russian P4P top-10. Co-founder of AFS with Armen Gulyan and co-host of the "Fight Show" podcast.