Vlasto Cepo

Cepo came forward hard and was punished for it. Urbina dropped him with a stiff jab as he crashed in, then followed with an unanswered barrage on the floor that brought Marc Goddard in at 1:01 of the opening round.

Key moments

• Cepo pressed forward aggressively from the opening bell.
• Urbina dropped him with a jab as he came in.
• Referee Marc Goddard stopped it after an unanswered barrage on the canvas.

Cepo carried his finishing form into Oktagon 42 and stopped Ion Taburceanu with punches in the second round. The result pushed the Oktagon stretch forward and set up the year-end tournament final appearance against Piotr Wawrzyniak.

Key moments

• Stopped Taburceanu by TKO with punches at 1:54 of round two.
• The win followed the Dec. 3, 2022 first-round stoppage of Giovanni Melillo at Oktagon 37.
• It became the last victory before the Dec. 29, 2023 Oktagon 51 final loss to Wawrzyniak.

Cepo needed only one round to stop Giovanni Melillo with punches at Oktagon 37. The finish kept his all-action trend intact and fed directly into the stronger 2023 Oktagon dates that eventually ended with the Wawrzyniak final.

Key moments

• Finished Melillo by first-round TKO at 2:30 with punches.
• The bout came after the November 2022 rear-naked choke win over Antonio Zovak at Centurion FC.
• It became the earliest result in the five-fight sequence that ran through Taburceanu, Wawrzyniak, Kartal and Schwindt.

The result stood out because it showed the same front-running pace outside Oktagon and set up the quick return against Giovanni Melillo two weeks later.

Key moments

• Submitted Zovak with a rear-naked choke at 1:45 of round one in the Centurion FC main event.
• The fight came after the August 2022 first-round submission of Ivan Jakovljevic.
• It was the immediate lead-in to the Dec. 3, 2022 Oktagon 37 stoppage of Giovanni Melillo.

Cepo rebounded from the Joel dos Santos loss by taking a main-event slot in Belgrade and submitting Ivan Jakovljevic in just over a minute.

Key moments

• Tapped Jakovljevic with a rear-naked choke at 1:17 of round one in a Centurion main event.
• The bout was his first recorded appearance after the June 2022 decision loss to Joel dos Santos.
• It started the six-fight winning stretch that later reached the Oktagon 51 final.

Cepo needed less than three minutes to knock out Alexandre Silva on the Oktagon 31 main card in Prague. It was an important statement win because it kept his pre-2022 surge intact after the quick stoppages of Milos Kostic, Slobodan Djordjevic and Leon Krajacic.

Key moments

• Knocked out Silva with a punch at 2:40 of round one at Oktagon 31.
• The finish followed his September 2021 50-second stoppage of Milos Kostic.
• It was the last win before the June 2022 decision loss to Joel dos Santos.

Cepo blasted through Milos Kostic in 50 seconds at Oktagon 27, finishing with knees and punches on the main card.

Key moments

• Stopped Kostic by TKO in 0:50 of round one at Oktagon 27.
• The result came two months after the 44-second finish of Slobodan Djordjevic in FNC's Armagedon tournament.
• It set up his next Oktagon appearance, the February 2022 knockout of Alexandre Silva.

Cepo barely gave Slobodan Djordjevic time to work, scoring a 44-second TKO in the FNC Armagedon quarterfinal stage.

Key moments

• Stopped Djordjevic with punches just 0:44 into round one.
• The bout was part of the FNC Armagedon quarterfinal bracket.
• It followed the April 2021 TKO of Leon Krajacic and led into the September 2021 Oktagon stoppage of Milos Kostic.

Strzelczyk handed Cepo his first recorded defeat inside a major regional promotion, catching him late in the second round at Oktagon 17.

Key moments

• Lost by second-round submission at Oktagon 17 after 4:21 of the round.
• The fight was contested at welterweight in Brno.
• Cepo answered the setback with first-round stoppages of Leon Krajacic, Slobodan Djordjevic and Milos Kostic.

Cepo's first recorded fight after his debut was another fast finish, a first-round TKO of veteran Danijel Arandjelovic at Dracula Fight Night 1.

Key moments

• Finished Arandjelovic with punches at 1:52 of round one.
• The win followed his June 2019 submission debut sequence against Sinisa Koncic and Vladimir Peric.
• It set up the year-end 2019 stoppage of Filip Le at PCF 21.