On 6th of March, in Belgrade, Serbia was held martial arts festival, where FICW presented Combat Wrestling as a discipline for a small Balkan Regional Cup tournament.

The event was part of beginning of series of promotional tournaments, as preparation for the 2nd World Championship in Tamasi, Hungary, on 15th of October and the 1st European Open Championship in Sofia, Bulgaria, on 22nd of November.

Participants in the event were the world champion from the 1st Combat Wrestling worlds, Boris Velichkov, the King of 68, Victor Pavlov, the NAGA world champion Angel Karaivanov and several medalists from the national Combat Wrestling team of Serbia and Macedonia.