OKTAGON 93 Preview: The Kings of Brno – Roušal, Kalašnik & Lengál
Brno is not just another stop on the OKTAGON MMA calendar. It has hosted 17 events, Challenge finals, Underground shows and some of the promotion’s formative nights. The Kings of Brno turns that history into a character-driven introduction to OKTAGON 93, following three local favorites — Radek Roušal, Andrej Kalašnik and Vladimír Lengál — before they return to Winning Group Arena on September 12.
The film divides Brno into three very different kingdoms. Kalašnik represents the streets, Lengál the chaos of balancing fighting with family life, and Roušal the noise surrounding the biggest opportunity of his MMA career. It gives the event a stronger local identity than a conventional fight-card trailer.
Radek Roušal gets his first OKTAGON main event
Radek Roušal carries the largest sporting stakes of the three. “Ruchy” enters at 7-2 and has finished four consecutive opponents, earning his first main-event assignment against former two-time OKTAGON bantamweight champion Jonas Mågård.
Roušal vs. Mågård has also developed genuine friction away from the cage. The buildup has included social-media insults and increasingly personal exchanges, while Mågård moves up from bantamweight to meet Roušal at featherweight. For the Brno fighter, it is a major jump in opposition against a 19-7 former champion who remains ranked No. 1 in OKTAGON’s bantamweight division.
The documentary spends time on Roušal’s relationship with Brno and the route from having very little to becoming a recognizable hometown fighter. That makes the main event more than a rankings exercise: he is being asked to prove his recent finishing streak against the most accomplished opponent of his career in front of his own crowd.
Andrej Kalašnik returns home after a year away
Andrej Kalašnik has been one of OKTAGON’s most familiar Czech personalities for years, but OKTAGON 93 marks his first cage appearance in roughly a year. The 13-6 welterweight returns against Kennedy Rayomba in Kalašnik vs. Rayomba.
“Vagabund” arrived in Brno from Ukraine as a small child and has described himself as a Ukrainian Moravian. His segment of The Kings of Brno is less about selling a single matchup and more about where he is now: discussing his weight, fatherhood, raising his own “little vagabond” and working back toward competition after injury.
That context makes his comeback one of the more personal stories on the card. Kalašnik is still ranked No. 8 at welterweight and has five first-round finishes on his résumé, but the question in Brno is how he looks after the layoff rather than where he sits on paper.
Vladimír Lengál brings the chaos back to Brno
Vladimír Lengál provides another version of the veteran-fighter story. The 37-year-old has a 9-6 MMA record but far more combat-sports experience than those numbers suggest, with a background spanning boxing, kickboxing and Muay Thai and close to 200 fights across disciplines.
At OKTAGON 93 he meets Maurice Adorf in Vladimír Lengál vs. Maurice Adorf. OKTAGON describes Lengál as a walking knockout highlight reel, but The Kings of Brno spends just as much time on what happens outside the cage — particularly the difficulty of combining the mentality needed for fighting with being a father.
That contrast suits Lengál. His public identity is built around aggressive striking and unpredictability, while the documentary shows the routine and responsibility sitting behind the “King of Chaos” image.
OKTAGON 93 is built around Brno
Roušal, Kalašnik and Lengál are not simply three Czech fighters placed on the same card. They represent why OKTAGON continues returning to Brno. The city was an important base during the promotion’s development and even served as a refuge during the COVID period. For readers new to the company, MMAtown’s guide to what OKTAGON MMA is explains how the Czech-Slovak promotion expanded into one of Europe’s largest MMA organizations.
The September 12 event therefore feels deliberately local even with international opposition across the card. Roušal gets the former champion Mågård. Kalašnik welcomes Germany’s Rayomba for his comeback. Lengál meets another German opponent in Adorf. Each fight gives the home crowd someone familiar to invest in without simply handing the Brno fighters comfortable assignments.
The Kings of Brno works because it does not treat those three men as interchangeable hometown favorites. Kalašnik talks about family, injury and where he came from. Lengál shows the tension between fatherhood and the fighter’s mentality. Roušal embraces the attention, the trash talk and the chance to headline in the city that helped build him.
OKTAGON 93 takes place September 12 at Winning Group Arena in Brno. Two weeks later the promotion shifts to a completely different scale for OKTAGON 94 at Deutsche Bank Park in Frankfurt, where Christian Eckerlin vs. David Kozma headlines the return to the stadium that drew nearly 60,000 fans in 2024.