ACA

ACA is the largest mixed martial arts promotion in the Russian-speaking world, and its cards are the main stage for a style of fighting that the rest of the sport meets mostly through exports.

A grappling-first roster

The talent pool behind the promotion is the one described on the Russia hub: sambo, combat sambo and freestyle wrestling, taught through club systems that start young. The consequence on a card is a higher share of clinch work, chained takedown attempts and top control than most audiences are used to, and fights that are decided by position more often than by a single exchange.

That is worth knowing before reading a record here. A fighter who has spent a career in this promotion has faced grapplers repeatedly, which is not true of a record of the same length built elsewhere — and it cuts both ways, since it also means fewer rounds spent solving a high-volume striker.

Its own circuit

The promotion runs a full calendar across a wide territory, with enough events that a fighter can build a long professional record without leaving it. Records on the pages below are therefore often deeper than their international recognition suggests, and the opposition column is the only way to read them.

What to look for on a card

Two habits recur often enough to be worth naming. The first is the fence exchange: fighters who close distance to grip rather than to strike, and who treat the wall as a tool rather than as somewhere to be avoided. The second is patience on top — control held for its own sake, with the finish sought late rather than immediately, which produces fights that look uneventful for a round and then end quickly.

Bouts follow the Unified Rules of MMA, over three five-minute rounds with five for championship fights, in the standard weight classes.

The pages below list every fighter in this catalogue whose most recent bout was in ACA, with their weight class, their record and how each of their last five fights ended.