No one could imagine that ylli Maliqi will defeat the world champion, the Serb Denis Marjanovic. But yesterday Maliqi surprised everyone with his performance by "crushing" Marjanovic during five rounds.
With this victory, our kikbokser from Pristina won the world title in the category up to 86 kilograms in WKU version.
Marijanovic seemingly underestimated Maliqi, and for him this confrontation was only one more match to keep the title. But things got rong for him. The coach of Maliq, Gasper Kacinari along with Maliqi decided for a strategy that Marijanovic did not expected.Our kickboxer since the beginning used the opposite strategy and this gave him convincing results and deep victory. The dominance continued from round to round.
Maliqi finally won by unanimous decision after five rounds. This victory of Ylli Maliqi is considered the biggest so far by any kickboxer of Kosovo territories.