Power Slap 22: Montes crowned as Nadja honors late sister

Third round, Nadja Milijancevic swings, and Robin Vereshchuk rocks backwards. The Scot took the strike flush, wobbled, then found her stance again. She stayed on her feet. When it was over, the Serbian bowed to her opponent, and it was not a gesture for the cameras. It was credit for surviving something almost nobody survives at Power Slap 22 in Belgrade Arena.

The judges scored all three rounds for Milijancevic and gave her the win unanimously. Hers was one of twelve bouts on the card, and the only one where the crowd had a name of its own to shout.

Why Milijancevic broke down after the win

She dedicated the victory to her sister Nikoleta, who died of leukemia in November 2025. With the microphone in her hand and the hall still full, she talked about her opponent first and about herself second.

Robin is a very strong competitor. She has also fought in the bare knuckle category, she is a great fighter. Yesterday would have been my sister Nikoleta’s 17th birthday, I want to wish her a happy birthday.

She also thanked Dana White, the head of the UFC, who watched the card from the front row, for the chance to fight in front of her family and a home crowd. Then she said she is ready for a rematch with Vereshchuk, in boxing or in bare-knuckle, whenever the Scot wants it.

Who is the first 66-kilogram champion?

Mexico’s Abby Montes. In the main event she beat Hungary’s Sina Batori by unanimous decision after five rounds and became the first woman to hold the 66-kilogram belt in the promotion’s history.

It was not a clean fight. Both women were penalized for strikes landing outside the permitted zone, and Batori came close to disqualification for repeat offences. The belt that Belgrade handed out for the first time went abroad, but the precedent stands: the first title fight in that division was contested outside the United States.

Dibbell defends for a sixth time

In the heavyweight title bout Damien Dibbell beat Dorian Perez by unanimous decision. That is his sixth successful defence, a number nobody else in the promotion has.

Dibbell remains the steadiest name on the roster, a fighter who wins even when the bout goes the distance. In a discipline where most things get settled with one strike, that counts for something.

Knockouts, blood and one disqualification

The rest of the card was shorter and rougher:

• Russia’s Vasily Kamotsky, known as Dumpling, knocked out David Zalewski in the second round
• Darren Godfrey stopped Daniyar Toktarov in the second round; the first strike did not move him, after the second he stayed down
• the bout between Luis Robinson and Pavol Horelican was waved off because of heavy bleeding from a cut lip
• Peter Truhlik was disqualified for two consecutive fouls against Jayden Fanane Schulz
• Adnan Alic took the decision over Djordje Tomic

What comes next after Power Slap 22

The card was part of the fight week that leads into the UFC event in the same arena, so Belgrade is hosting two very different shows under one roof within days. We previewed the night when the first women’s belt was still to be won, and that part delivered: Power Slap left the United States for the first time and immediately created a title that did not exist before.

For the Serbian fight calendar, one name carries over. Milijancevic won a bout she controlled from the first round, she won it at home, and she won it in front of the man who decides who gets the next slot. If the rematch with Vereshchuk gets made, she stops being the local attraction on the card and becomes a fighter the card is built around.