Abdulla Dayakaev And Superlek To Settle Rivalry In Bantamweight Rematch At The Inner Circle On August 7
The result was announced, the debate immediately started, and it has not stopped since. On August 7, the only argument that matters gets settled inside the ring.
Abdulla “Smash Boy” Dayakaev and “The Kicking Machine” Superlek are confirmed for a bantamweight Muay Thai rematch at The Inner Circle on Friday, August 7, live in Asia primetime from Lumpinee Stadium in Bangkok, Thailand.
Their first meeting on May 15 produced everything a high-stakes Muay Thai clash should and ended in the kind of split-decision result that makes a rematch feel not just justified but necessary.
Dayakaev dropped Superlek with a thunderous right hand inside the opening minute, sending a shockwave through Lumpinee and taking a deficit the Thai legend spent the remaining nine minutes trying to overcome. He very nearly did.
Superlek dominated the second and third rounds, attacking with knees in the clinch and pouring forward pressure onto a man who had just knocked him down, but the damage from that first-round knockdown proved too costly when the scorecards were read. Two judges sided with Dayakaev. The third sided with Superlek. The room erupted in both directions.
For Dayakaev, a second consecutive victory over a fighter of Superlek’s calibre would do more than silence the critics who questioned the first decision. It would establish the 24-year-old Dagestan-born striker as a genuinely elite-level name at 135 pounds, and put him squarely in the conversation for the ONE Bantamweight Muay Thai World Title.
His record has been built on heavy hands and the kind of pressure that forces opponents into uncomfortable exchanges, and Superlek now knows from experience exactly how much punishment that right hand carries.
The stakes are considerably higher for Superlek. The 30-year-old Superlek Muaythai representative carries a 139-32 career record into August 7, but three consecutive losses have cast an unfamiliar shadow over a career that once seemed completely untouchable.
A defeat here would deepen that shadow considerably. A win, by any method, changes the narrative entirely and forces a third fight that the division’s bantamweight landscape would immediately organise itself around.
Two months of preparation separate both men from a night that delivers a definitive answer to the question the first fight left open.
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