Brandon Halsey recorded his first M-1 Global victory

KAZAN, Русија (Септембар 23, 2017) – American MMA fighter Брендон “Бик” Халсеи, fighting as a light heavyweight for the first time, won a hard-fought, three-round unanimous decision over his Russian opponent, Михаил Рагозин, in yesterday’s (Субота) М-1 Цхалленге 83: TATFIGHT 5 Главни догађај, marking the first international MMA event ever held in Kazan, Русија.

У сарадњи функцију, Aleksander Doskalchuk became the first M-1 Challenge flyweight champion.

Eight different countries – Русија, САД, Украјина, Грузија, Казахстан, Бразил, Киргизстан, and Netherlands – were represented by fighters in this international event.

The 30-year-old Halsey (10-3-0, М-1: 1-1-0), fighting out of Huntington Beach, Калифорнија, was a standout wrestler at the California State University in Bakersfield. He is a former two-time Bellator whose decision to move up to light heavyweight from middleweight, after him being stopped in the opening round ofМ-1 Цхалленге 79 this past June to Russian MMA star Александр Шлеменко, proved correct as he won a three-round decision over Ragozin for his initi al M-1 Global victory, establishing himself as a leading contender for the coveted M-1 Challenge light heavyweight title.

Doskalchuk (8-1-0, М-1: 2-0-0), Украјине, used a choke hold to force Russian flyweight Вадим “Bad Santa” Malygin (11-3-1, М-1: 2-2-1) to tap out in the second round. Doskalchuk became the first M-1 Challenge flyweight champion.

In other main event action, Грузијски лаган Раул Тутараули (18-3-0, М-1: 6-1-0) took a three-round unanimous decision over previously undefeatedВладимир Канунников (8-1-0, М-1: 0-1-0, Русије; Амерички пероNate “The Train” Landwehr (9-2-0, М-1: 1-0-0) stopped his Russian foe,Михаил Коробков (13-3-1, М-1: 1-3-1), on punches in the second round; Kazakh bantamweight Sergey Morozov (10-3-0, М-1: 5-2-0) Ударио се Luan Fernandes (8-3-0, М-1: 0-1-0) in the second fame.

Nate “The Train” Landwehr celebrated his first M-1 win

The judges were very busy working the undercard as only two fights ended before the full distance with Russian featherweight knocking out his countryman, Про-дебитовао Rinat Shakirov у трећем колу, и руски лаган Виктор Колесник (11-3-1, М-1: 2-0-1) doing the same to Netherlands kickboxing specialist Brian Hooi (14-7-0, М-1: 0-1-0), only in the opening round.

Украјински Лигхт Хеавивеигхт Vadim Shabadash (5-2-0, М-1: 1-0-0) и руски бантам Александар Осетров won unanimous decisions over, односно, Руски Kirill Kusmin (2-1-0, М-1: 0-1-0) and pro-debuting Lenar Suleymanov, Русије.

Russian light weight Alik Albagachiev (4-0-0, М-1: 1-0-0) took a majority decision win from Russian Ruslan Khisamutdinov (4-4-0, М-1: 0-1-0) and Russian welterweight Vadim Sinitsyn (2-0-0, М-1: 1-0-0) had the exact same outcome versus Timur Gilimzyanov (4-3-0, М-1: 0-1-0). Бразилац лаке категоријеDiego Davela (18-6-1, М-1: 1-1-1) и Busurmankul Abdibait Uulu (8-2-1, М-1: 0-0-1), Киргистана, fought to a three-round split draw.

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