World No. 1 Aleksei Karimov and Nigeria's Marcus Okonkwo split the first two rounds of their five-round main event at the KBN Istanbul Open 2026. Round three is under way.
London, Moscow, Lagos, Istanbul and Tehran — the sanctioned KBN events on the calendar after the World Championship, with their levels and multipliers.
How Aleksei Karimov's verified record adds up to the top of the professional men's kickboxing welterweight table — bout by bout, multiplier by multiplier.
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The KBN World Championship 2026 comes to Dubai on 18 October with a ×3.0 multiplier — the highest in the KBN framework — and four world-level bouts.
Participation, wins, finishes, placings and title defences — then the event multiplier and the time value.
National ×1.0, International Open ×1.5, Continental ×2.0, World Cup ×2.5, World Championship ×3.0 — what the multipliers mean in practice.
One fighter, one ID, one verified record. A plain-language guide to the base points, event multipliers and time value behind every table in the KBN World Ranking.
Officials check fighters in by QR, record weigh-ins and score every round on a phone — even with no signal. Nothing reaches the ranking until an admin verifies it.
A 20-question exam on the 10-point must system, knockdowns, fouls, weigh-ins and KBN procedure — pass with 16 and receive an officials licence that anyone can verify.
