Oktagon bantamweight rankings: Severino defends against Holzer, 13 bouts and only 2 finishes

Igor Severino is the Oktagon bantamweight champion at 23, and he defends the belt against Max Holzer at Oktagon 97 on 7 Nov 2026. Behind him sits a division where almost every recent fight went the distance: 13 bouts in the last 12 months produced only 2 finishes.

Oktagon bantamweight rankings

The current top ten, with the champion first:

Rank	Fighter	Record
Champion	Igor Severino	9-1-0, 1 NC
#2	Dastan Amangeldy	11-1-0
#3	Khurshed Kakhorov	13-2-0
#4	Raul Lemberanskij	10-0-0
#5	Wanderley Junior	1-4-0
#6	Elvis Batista da Silva	15-9-0
#7	Ali Gündüz	7-1-0
#8	Roman Paulus	11-8-0
#9	Harun Kurt	6-1-0
#10	Abdullah Sultani	4-3-0

Nobody moved in the latest ranking update. Lemberanskij, 24, is the only unbeaten fighter in the top ten. Gündüz is 22, and he, Kurt and Sultani all fight out of Germany.

Oktagon bantamweight champion Igor Severino

Severino carries an 89 percent finish rate. His last completed title defence ended with a TKO of Khurshed Kakhorov in round 5, at 1:38, at Oktagon 85 on 7 Mar 2026. Kakhorov, 34, is the veteran of the group and still sits at #3 with a 69 percent finish rate.

The next defence, on 6 Jun 2026 at Oktagon 89, ended in a no contest against Zhalgas Zhumagulov in round 2 at 2:18. A no contest counts as neither a win nor a loss, which is why the record reads 9-1-0 with one NC.

Why so many decisions

The only two finishes in the last 12 months were Severino's TKO of Kakhorov and the TKO win of Lukáš Chotěnovský over Michał Hawro in round 3 at 4:14 on 11 Apr 2026. Every other bout that reached a result was scored.

Lemberanskij is the clearest case. He beat Gündüz on 7 Mar and Paulus on 26 Sep, both on the scorecards, and his finish rate is 30 percent. Amangeldy won a unanimous decision over Wanderley Junior on 31 Jan and a decision over Moktar Benkaci on 6 Jun, and his finish rate is 55 percent. Paulus took a split decision from Harun Kurt on 1 Aug, and Kurt had beaten Nathan Haywood by unanimous decision on 31 Jan.

Elvis Batista da Silva, 36, brings the most experience in the list at 15-9-0. His last fight in the sample was a unanimous decision loss to Jonas Mågård on 29 Dec 2025, and his finish rate is 33 percent.

Wanderley Junior, 32, is at #5 with a 1-4-0 record after that loss to Amangeldy, and Roman Paulus, 26, is 11-8-0 with a 45 percent finish rate. Junior's single win is the fewest of anyone in the top ten, and Paulus has the most losses of anyone in it other than Batista da Silva.

The pattern matters for the title picture. The two fighters closest to Severino by record, Amangeldy and Lemberanskij, have built their numbers on judges' scorecards, while the champion has the stoppage on his resume.

What is booked

Severino against Holzer is the title fight at Oktagon 97. Holzer is not in the top ten.

Lower down the list, Gündüz fights Sultani at Oktagon 99 in Dortmund on 5 Dec 2026. Gündüz's last outing was a split decision over Dávid Dániel Komár on 12 Sep. For a division this deep in decision wins, the Dortmund fight is the first booked chance for someone in the top ten to change the order.