Oktagon MMA was founded in 2016 by Pavol Neruda and Ondřej Novotný in the Czech-Slovak market. It grew out of the Oktagon Challenge reality-show concept and expanded into a full event promotion that has since become one of Europe’s strongest MMA brands outside the traditional UK-centered lane. Oktagon’s strength is that it built a real fan base in Central Europe first and then expanded outward instead of forcing global branding too early. It is still a regional-rooted company, but one with clearly broader continental ambitions.

