Kon Jarbin

Kon Jarbin’s latest recorded win came in the third round, far from the Itanagar academy where he began MMA. On 25 October 2026, he submitted Athul Hotkar with a rear-naked choke at Indian Fight League’s Bengaluru versus North East event. Combat Registry and Fight Matrix both list the result, with the latter spelling his opponent’s name Athul D Hotker.

The Arunachal Pradesh featherweight had already reached a regional title final and lost it. His route to that point began with a less settled question: what to do after an engineering degree. In Tora Agarwala’s September 2026 reporting, originally published in IndiGo’s Hello 6E magazine, the Itanagar-based fighter described uncertainty about work before joining Abrasumente Academy and finding a discipline he wanted to keep returning to.

Aturto gave him a route into competition close to home. Before its April 2025 event in Dirang, the promotion described Jarbin as having made his amateur and semi-professional debuts on its cards. He was now entering an eight-fighter professional featherweight tournament, with a new championship belt waiting for the eventual winner. The Arunachal Times’ preview set out that progression.

His professional debut, against Karan Nitin Chauhan on 26 April, lasted just over two minutes. Sherdog records a first-round TKO at 2:05; The Arunachal Times’ event report confirms that the main event was Jarbin’s professional debut. He had passed the tournament’s first stage, with the remaining rounds spread across the rest of the year.

Lakhan Laishram took him much deeper into the semifinal. Their bout at Aturto 3.2 in Pasighat on 30 August ended with another finish, this time a rear-naked choke in round three. Sherdog gives the time as 3:04, and the newspaper’s follow-up also reports the third-round submission. A quick stoppage on debut and a late submission had put Jarbin into the final.

The belt was decided in Itanagar on 21 December. Nilesh Chaudhary submitted him with a first-round triangle choke at Aturto 3.3, becoming the promotion’s inaugural featherweight champion. The Arunachal Times reported the finish; Sherdog records it at 2:40. Jarbin had reached the deciding bout, but the title went to his opponent.

That tournament had carried a new professional from Dirang through Pasighat to the state capital. The December preview listed Jarbin as representing Team Illegal; his current training arrangements have not been independently established. Abrasumente remains the academy named in the reporting on his introduction to MMA.

The later Bengaluru submission is the next result located after the title-fight defeat. It adds an away victory to a professional career whose first three bouts were shaped by Aturto’s tournament: two finishes to reach the final, a loss to the first champion, then another third-round submission outside Arunachal Pradesh.