Lazar Stojadinovic Record: 14-9-0

Contender Series and the top tier

That LFA form earned Stojadinovic a 2017 appearance on Dana White's Contender Series, where he ran into surging striker Thanh Le and was stopped by a head kick and punches in the second round. He rebounded on the regional scene but met another hard test in 2019, falling to Irwin Rivera by first-round strikes at Titan FC 53. He answered with a rear-naked choke of Carlos Guerra at GLFC 16 and then headlined GLFC 17: Miami in December 2020, outpointing Isaac Shelton over three rounds to win the Global Legion FC featherweight championship – his third promotional title. That run carried him to the Professional Fighters League, where the level of opposition spiked sharply.

PFL and a return to boxing

In the 2021 PFL season Stojadinovic dropped a decision to unbeaten standout Movlid Khaybulaev and was then stopped by former UFC fighter Sheymon Moraes via an overhand right and follow-up ground strikes in the second round. Rather than fade out, he leaned back into his first discipline, reeling off three straight first- and second-round knockouts in professional boxing bouts from 2022 through 2023 – a reminder of the hands that started it all.

Fighting style

Stojadinovic is a well-rounded finisher whose 64 percent finish rate is split intriguingly between his two skill sets: six of his wins have come by submission and three by knockout, with five more on the judges' cards. The boxing base gives him sharp, heavy hands and ring craft, while his grappling – triangles, rear-naked chokes and a willingness to hunt finishes off his back – makes him dangerous if a fight hits the mat. His losses have tended to come against elite strikers and divisional standouts, where high-level pace and power exposed the margins, but he has rarely been an easy night for anyone.

Career highlights

• King of the Cage bantamweight champion (2008) – took the belt from reigning champion Matt Jaggers by third-round TKO at KOTC: Settlement, completing a sweep of their two-fight series.
• CFA featherweight champion (2012) – knocked out undefeated champion Jordan Parsons in 71 seconds at CFA 7, the first loss of Parsons' career and the signature win of Stojadinovic's regional run.
• Global Legion FC featherweight champion (2020) – headlined GLFC 17: Miami and beat Isaac Shelton by unanimous decision to add a third promotional title, a springboard to the PFL.
• Title-fight win on foreign soil (2014) – headlined Xplosion Corfu in Corfu, Greece and submitted Giorgos Papouasvili by first-round guillotine choke.
• Decision win over Mike Richman (2017) – outpointed the seasoned Bellator veteran at LFA 2 to peak on the regional scene and earn a Contender Series call.
• Dual-sport finisher – reached the PFL in MMA and later scored three consecutive knockout wins in professional boxing, drawing on the discipline he started in as a child.