East vs West books Krasovskis vs Popov for EVW 25 in Batumi
Krasovskis gets a welterweight reset against Popov in Batumi, but Popov’s Babaevs Cup surge makes this a true prove-it spot.
East vs West made Vladislavs Krasovskis vs Artem Popov official for EVW 25 in Batumi, and this is not a throwaway addition to the card. Krasovskis is being pushed back toward welterweight, Popov is arriving off an impressive run at the King of the Table tournament at the Babaevs Cup, and the booking sets up a simple question: whose recent form actually travels.
EVW25 is scheduled for August 1, 2026, in Batumi, Georgia, with the show set for 8:00 PM local Batumi time. A press conference is planned for the day before on the East vs West YouTube channel, and the event page shows why this matchup matters inside a much larger show: the card is built around title fights such as Vitaly Laletin vs Alizhan Muratov, Oleg Zhokh vs Luka Tsinadze, Daniel Procopciuc vs Vachagan Hovhannisyan, and Kamil Jablonski vs Georgii Tsvetkov. Krasovskis vs Popov sits in that kind of company, not on the margins.
Krasovskis is not being introduced as a newcomer. East vs West’s results archive shows him on the EVW 22 card in Vienna on February 28, 2026, where he pulled Alexander Teliatnik in a right-arm supermatch. That matters because it gives the Batumi booking continuity: EVW has already kept Krasovskis in the rotation, and now it is asking whether he can convert that familiarity into a higher-value result in welterweight. The same archive shows EVW 24 went down in Little Rock on June 6, 2026, a reminder of how quickly the promotion has been moving through its 2026 schedule.
Popov’s lane is different. EVW tied his shot at Batumi directly to his performance at the King of the Table tournament at the Babaevs Cup, which makes this feel earned rather than handed out. The promotion did not spell out the style matchup in detail, but the message is clear enough: Popov has done enough elsewhere to get a look on the EVW stage, and Batumi will show whether that momentum survives a bigger spotlight. EVW’s structure, with free preliminary matches on YouTube alongside PPV main-card bouts, is designed to give those kinds of names a platform, and Krasovskis vs Popov is exactly the sort of test that can separate prospect buzz from contender-level reality.
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