34 Facts About Mladen Brestovac

Mladen Brestovac was born on October, 1983 and is a Croatian heavyweight Muay Thai kickboxer, currently signed to Final Fight Championship, where he is the current FFC Heavyweight champion, and GLORY.

Mladen Brestovac was named Croatian K-1 Fighter of the Year in 2013 by a jury of experts made of Fight Channel members, kickboxing coaches and sports journalists.

Mladen Brestovac achieved stoppage victories against Andreas Peters in the quarterfinal and Renato Sini in the semifinal, before winning the tournament through a unanimous decision against Roman Kleibl in the final.

Mladen Brestovac won a unanimous decision against Joachim Thomas in the quarterfinal, knocked Mate Zentai out with a head kick in the semifinal and won the tournament with an extra round decision against Sebastian Ciobanu.

In October 2014, Mladen Brestovac defeated Koos Wessels by unanimous decision, to qualify to the 2009 K-1 ColliZion Final Tournament.

Mladen Brestovac scored knockouts of Mihaita Golescu in the quarterfinal and Coco Rus in the semifinal, before facing Roman Kleibl in the final.

Mladen Brestovac subsequently signed with SUPERKOMBAT, and was immediately placed in the 2011 SUPERKOMBAT World Grand Prix II.

Mladen Brestovac defeated Mighty Mo by a body kick KO in the semifinals, but lost the final bout against Ismael Londt by TKO, after the ringside doctor stopped the fight in the first round.

Mladen Brestovac was scheduled to fight Chinese giant Taishan in a non-tournament bout at the K-1 World Grand Prix 2012 Final in Zagreb, Croatia on March 15,2013.

However Taishan was replaced, and Mladen Brestovac defeated Frank Munoz via unanimous decision.

Mladen Brestovac took unanimous decision win against Sergei Lascenko, after being the better and more active fighter during the fight.

Mladen Brestovac beat Ali Cenik by decision at Final Fight Championship 8 in Zagreb, Croatia on October 25,2013.

In November, 2013 Mladen Brestovac signed for world top promotion, Glory.

Mladen Brestovac made his debut in his hometown Zagreb at the Glory 14: Zagreb event facing Jahfarr Wilnis, defeating him with left high kick in the first round.

Mladen Brestovac defeated Tomas Pakutinskas at FFC Futures 2 on May 5,2014 after he suffered arm injury early in round one.

Mladen Brestovac fought, on June 24,2014 in Slovenia against Tomaz Simonic, who replaced Nikolai Falin.

Mladen Brestovac scored another victory on points, scoring a knockdown in third round with a flying knee.

Mladen Brestovac was next scheduled to fight Nikolaj Falin in June 2014, but Falin would later withdraw and be replaced by Tomaz Simonic.

Mladen Brestovac was scheduled to defend his title four months later, against Colin George.

Mladen Brestovac won the fight just 27 seconds into the fight, breaking George's arm as he tried to block a body kick.

Mladen Brestovac was supposed to replace Benjamin Adegbuyi to fight Anderson Silva on May 8,2015 at Glory 21: San Diego event, however the Brazilian failed hus medical test and that fight was cancelled.

Mladen Brestovac instead took part in the 2015 Glory Heavyweight Contender tournament, fighting Benjamin Adegbuyi in the semifinals.

Mladen Brestovac lost the fight by unanimous decision.

Mladen Brestovac snapped his losing streak with a second round head kick knockout of Banks.

Mladen Brestovac participated in the 2016 Glory Heavyweight Contender tournament, being scheduled to fight Jahfarr Wilnis in the semifinals.

Mladen Brestovac knocked Wilnis out with a head kick in the first round, and advanced to the finals, where he was to fight a rematch with Benjamin Adegbuyi.

Mladen Brestovac was scheduled to defend the FFC title for the second time against Daniel Lentie at FFC 27.

Mladen Brestovac then defended his title for the third time against Dzevad Poturak at FFC 29, winning by unanimous decision.

Mladen Brestovac knocked Gerges out with a head kick, after 36 seconds of the first round.

Mladen Brestovac defended the FFC title for the fourth time against Jhonata Diniz at FFC 31, who he knocked out with a head kick in the third round.

Mladen Brestovac wouldn't fight in 2019, as in January of the same year, it was announced by GLORY that Mladen Brestovac was one of four fighters to have failed their doping tests, testing positive for meldonium.

Mladen Brestovac was given a 19 month suspension, applied retroactively from the Glory 54 event, which effectively ended on December 1,2019.

Mladen Brestovac faced Karim Dian at Glory 95 for a retirement bout on September 21,2024.

Mladen Brestovac won by first round KO with a left body kick.