Henry Cejudo in Kotor: UFC Champion on a Montenegro Boat Day

Former UFC double champion and Olympic gold medalist Henry Cejudo visited Kotor, Montenegro, from June 2 to June 6, 2026, to lead an elite five-day MMA training seminar alongside coaches Renato Subotić and Luka Jelčić. During his stay, the Mayor of Kotor officially hosted Cejudo and the other visiting combat sports figures — including former UFC fighter and BJJ black belt Marcin Bandel and Montenegrin-American martial arts academy owner Melisa Balić — at a municipal reception on 3 June, alongside the seminar's organizer Kristijan Radojević of B 86 GYM, the municipality's sports advisor Dejan Ognjenović, and Kotor Tourism Organization director Jovan Ristić.

That reception is a matter of public record, not marketing shorthand. Kotor's municipal government published its own account of the event, and it's worth reading closely because the short version that circulates online tends to compress five days of real training into one misleading line: "UFC comes to Kotor." It didn't. What actually happened is smaller, more specific, and — we think — a better story: an Olympic and double UFC champion spent a week teaching in a Montenegrin gym, the town's leadership took notice enough to host a formal reception for him and the other visiting coaches, and part of that week happened on our boats.

The municipal reception, and who was actually in the room

On 3 June, midway through the seminar week, Kotor Municipality President Vladimir Jokić held a formal reception for the visiting combat sports delegation. The guest list, confirmed by the municipality's own published account, went beyond Cejudo alone: Marcin Bandel, a former UFC fighter and Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu black belt, Croatian MMA champion Luka Jelčić, respected coach Renato Subotić, and Melisa Balić — a Montenegrin-born athlete who now owns a martial arts school in New York — were all there as instructors and lecturers on the seminar.

Jokić called the seminar a contribution to "the promotion of sport, the exchange of knowledge, and the affirmation of Kotor as a city that supports the development of sporting values and international cooperation." Cejudo, on his first-ever visit to Montenegro, was reportedly taken with the town's natural and cultural setting — which is exactly the part of the week that put him on our boats.

What actually brought him to Kotor

The seminar itself was organized by B 86 GYM, a Kotor-based MMA club run by Kristijan Radojević, a licensed World MMA Federation trainer and personal trainer based in the town. B 86 GYM has run this kind of international seminar for several years, bringing in high-level coaches and fighters from around the world to train alongside local and regional athletes. For 2026, that lineup topped out at Cejudo — a name every serious MMA fan recognizes — flanked by Subotić, Jelčić, Bandel and Balić. Five days, ten training sessions, one gym in Kotor, running 2 to 6 June.

It's a training camp, not a fight card. There was no UFC event in Montenegro that week, and Cejudo wasn't competing — he was teaching. The distinction matters if you're trying to search your way to more information about it: "UFC Fight Week Montenegro" isn't a real event to look up, but "Henry Cejudo Kotor MMA seminar" gets you the actual story.

The day on our boats

Part of what these seminars do — by the organizers' own account — is give visiting fighters and coaches a look at Montenegro itself, not just a gym and a hotel room. Guests get taken out on speedboat tours of the bay, up the Kotor cable car, and further north into the country, footage from which the club has used in its own recap videos for years. Cejudo's June 2026 visit followed the same pattern, and the boats used for that day were ours.

Two of our speedboats crossing the open water of the Bay of Kotor — the same fleet used for the seminar's boat day during Cejudo's June 2026 visit. Cejudo himself is not visible in this clip; it shows the boats and route used that week.

Same captains, same fleet, same decks that carry our regular guests through the Bay of Kotor every day. If you book a tour or a private charter with us, you're not getting a different setup — you're getting the exact one used the week an Olympic and UFC champion trained in Kotor.

Kotor's growing list of celebrity visitors

Cejudo isn't the only well-known name Kotor's combat-sports and action-sports circuit has drawn in. B 86 GYM's international seminars have brought recognized coaches and fighters to the town for several summers, and Kotor Bay itself has separately hosted Red Bull Cliff Diving sports director Orlando Duque during a diving exhibition at the Blue Cave — on the same fleet covered in this article. If you're curious what other famous visitors Kotor has attracted recently, that's the other story worth reading.

Why we're telling this story straight

It would be easy to round this up into something bigger than it was — plenty of local coverage leans on "UFC champion" and leaves the seminar/event distinction blurry. We'd rather you know exactly what happened: an Olympic and double UFC champion trained fighters in Kotor for five days in June 2026, the town's municipal leadership hosted him and his fellow coaches at a formal civic reception, and he crossed the bay on our boats while he was here. That's a genuinely rare thing for a small Montenegrin charter fleet, and it doesn't need exaggeration to be worth telling.

Curious about the other big name our boats supported this year? Read the full story of Orlando Duque, Red Bull Cliff Diving, and the Blue Cave exhibition our boats supported in Kotor.