OKTAGON 97 brings twelve fights to Hannover on November 7, headlined by Igor Severino defending his bantamweight title against unbeaten Max Holzer. Here is the full card, the start times and what is known so far about where to watch.
Date, venue and start times
OKTAGON 97 takes place on Saturday, November 7, 2026, at the ZAG Arena in Hannover, Germany, one of the promotion’s strongest markets since it entered the country in 2022 and began selling out arenas holding more than 10,000 fans.
| Card segment | U.S. Eastern / Central / Mountain / Pacific | United Kingdom and Central Europe |
|---|---|---|
| Prelims | not announced yet | not announced yet |
| Main card | 12 p.m. ET / 11 a.m. CT / 10 a.m. MT / 9 a.m. PT | 5 p.m. UK, 6 p.m. Central Europe |
| Main event (estimate) | around 3 p.m. ET | around 9 p.m. Central Europe |
How to Watch
Oktagon MMA streams every event worldwide on its own platform, oktagon.tv. The promotion also signed a global broadcast agreement with DAZN covering more than 150 markets, but that deal explicitly excludes Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Luxembourg, where earlier local agreements remain in place. No U.S. broadcaster or streaming home was confirmed for this event as of this writing. Oktagon.tv remains the one confirmed worldwide option for American viewers until a local deal, if any, is announced. Readers in the United Kingdom and most of Central Europe fall within the 150-plus markets covered by the DAZN agreement, though checking the DAZN app listing for this specific card before the weekend is still the safest move.
Main card
Igor Severino, nicknamed The Hannibal (Brazil, 10-1-0), defends the bantamweight title (135 lbs, 61 kg) against Max Holzer (Germany, 12-0-0), unbeaten and moving down from featherweight for this five round main event.
In the co-main event, Gjoni Palokaj meets Zafar Mohsen at featherweight (145 lbs, 66 kg), opening the televised portion of the card. The title fight is scheduled for five rounds, the format Oktagon reserves for championship bouts across its weight classes.
Prelims
Ozan Aslaner vs Denis Frimpong, catchweight at 159 lbs (72 kg). Justin Detzel vs Kacper Frątczak, middleweight (185 lbs, 84 kg). Karol Ryšavý vs Samuel Bark, featherweight. Daniel Makin vs Petr Bartoněk, welterweight (170 lbs, 77 kg). Haci Akseker vs Jonatan Kujawa, featherweight. Jan Holzer vs Ján Švagerko, welterweight. Matheus Severino vs Abdul Badakhshi, flyweight (125 lbs, 57 kg). Josefine Lindgren Knutsson vs Yasmin Guimaraes, strawweight (115 lbs, 52 kg). Kathrin Haberle vs Thais Vasconcelos, bantamweight. Islam Djabrailov vs Kenji Bortoluzzi, featherweight. Ten bouts fill out the undercard behind the two championship-adjacent fights at the top, spanning flyweight through middleweight and including two women’s bouts.
What is at stake
Igor Severino wants a clean result after his title defense against Zhalgas Zhumagulov ended in a no contest in June following an accidental clash of heads. Before that, he won the belt in March by stopping Khurshed Kakhorov on strikes. Max Holzer brings a perfect 12-0-0 record, seven of those wins by submission, and gets his first title shot by moving down a weight class. The promotion bills him as a local hero in Hannover, a status that should work in his favor as he challenges an established champion in front of his home crowd. The bantamweight picture has been unsettled since the Zhumagulov no contest, and a clear result at OKTAGON 97 would finally put the question of who holds the title to rest.
Switzerland’s Kenji Bortoluzzi faces Islam Djabrailov at featherweight carrying a three fight losing streak inside an 11-7-1 record, looking for a result that keeps him in the division’s plans.
Founded in 2016 by Pavol Neruda and Ondřej Novotný, Oktagon MMA says it has staged 47 events to date and has built a fast growing audience across Central Europe, with stated ambitions to become a kind of Champions League for MMA. Germany, host of this card, ranks among its strongest markets alongside the Czech Republic and Slovakia, with arenas regularly selling out since the promotion arrived there in 2022. Oktagon typically runs one to two cards a month across those three countries, which explains the fast pace of title fights like the one headlining Hannover.
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