Will Fleury has the chance to create MMA history after his victory at OKTAGON 68.
Fleury defeated Lazar Todev last Saturday to be crowned the first-ever double champion of OKTAGON’s heaviest divisions.
The 35-year-old already held the light heavyweight strap ahead of his fight with Todev in Stuttgart, Germany, and outpointed his Bulgarian counterpart in a tough, gritty affair to secure a unanimous decision win and add the heavyweight belt to his collection.
Fleury was ahead on all scorecards going into the final round and Todev came out strong during the final minutes, but it wasn’t enough to sway the bout in his favour.
The Irishman has now won all four of his fights under the OKTAGON banner since making his debut in April 2024, subsequently claiming two titles en route to becoming the promotion’s biggest star.
Speaking to talkSPORT.com before his last victory, Fleury didn’t rule out a massive weight cut back down to middleweight to become MMA’s first-ever three-division champion.
“I was thinking about going to middleweight before this fight came up,” he said.
“If an opportunity like that came up, it would take me a little while to get down to middleweight right now, obviously.
“But if the chance was there, I would go and do that. So we’ll see. We’ll see what happens.
“There’s opportunities everywhere, man. As long as you’re the guy going in there and smashing it all the time, doors are going to keep on opening.
“And I plan on smashing everybody and keep opening them doors, you know.”
Conor McGregor made UFC history when he became the promotion’s first fighter to hold two belts simultaneously after knocking out Eddie Alvarez in 2016.
Will Fleury’s OKTAGON record
Four wins, two belts
Defeated Lazar Todev via unanimous decision to win heavyweight title in March 2025 at OKTAGON 68
Defeated Karlos Vemola via unanimous decision to win light heavyweight title in December 2024 at OKTAGON 65
Defeated Pavol Langer via first-round knockout in October 2024 at OKTAGON 62
Defeated Daniel Skvor via first-round submission in April 2024 on debut at OKTAGON 56
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Only UFC Hall of Famer Daniel Cormier, women’s MMA icon Amanda Nunes and former Olympic Gold medallist Henry Cejudo have achieved that feat in Dana White‘s promotion.
There has never been a three-division champion in the history of MMA under traditional unified rules.
Anatoly Malykhin of ONE Championship became the first man in the sport to win world titles across three different weight classes last March.
Malykhin held the heavyweight and light heavyweight title ahead of ONE 116 and defeated now-UFC fighter Reinier de Ridder to claim the middleweight strap too.
However, ONE Championship’s weight classes do not adhere to the Official Unified Rules of MMA, like seen in the UFC, meaning their divisions of the same name are ten lbs heavier.
For example, fighters in the UFC flyweight division have to weigh in at 125lbs, but in ONE Championship flyweight weigh in at 135lbs.
Fleury, a former rugby player at youth level asserted that he wants to keep achieving bigger and better things with OKTAGON.
“Todev is a hell of a man but I’ve worked too hard for too long to let anyone come in and take this away from me tonight,” he said in his post-fight interview.
“I’ve put 14 years of work into being this guy. No man alive was going to come in here and take that belt from me.
“All I want is bigger and bigger opportunities and I’ll keep rising to the challenge.”
Fleury later told the media in Germany that if OKTAGON offers him the opportunity to move down he will ‘take whatever chances’ that come to him.
