New M-1 Challenge Lightweight Champion Damir Ismagulov

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ORENBURG, Rússland (Maí 27, 2017) – A new M-1 Challenge lightweight champion was crowned last night as Damir Ismagulov knocked out former champion Maxim Divnich at the end of the fifth and final championship round in the M-1 Challenge 78 main event at Orenburg, Rússland.

M-1 Challenge 78 was a true international event with fighters representing eight different countries: Rússland, Brasilía, Hvíta-Rússland, USA, UK, Svíþjóð, Ukraine and Kyrgyzstan.

Ismagulov (11-2-0, M-1: 7-1-0), fighting out of Russia by way of Kazakhstan, fought Divnich (13-3-0, M-1: 7-3-0) heima, í Orenburg, for the vacant M-1 Challenge lightweight title, where Divnich had lost his title belt in 2015.

The title fight commenced with a “tilfinning út ferli” einfaldra skipti á höggum við Ismagulov vinna meira með fótunum, and the round ended with the hometown favorite holding a slight advantage.

Ismagulov, þó, ríkjandi næstu þrjár umferðir og Divnich, sem skemmst alvarlega, blóðug andlit sýndi veikur áhrif af áframhaldandi árás Ismagulov er, var ekki að snúa dæminu við í fimmta. As the finished neared, Ismagulov mistókst að leggja leikinn andstæðing sinn fyrr barrage ósvarað sleginn rigndi á varnarlaust Divnich. The referee halted the action with 13-seconds remaining on the clock for a hard-fought Ismagoulov win by technical knockout.

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Eftir að berjast 5,000 aðdáendur haldin, öskrandi samþykki þeirra fyrir Ismagulov, hver sagði: “Ég er frá Orenburg svæðinu. Ég vann beltið! Takk fyrir komuna. Ég vil þakka MMA Orenburg, þjálfarinn minn, victor Frolov, sem sá mig sem hæfileika, og Alexander Shlemenko fyrir að trúa á mig. Ég þakka þjálfara mínum, fjölskyldan mín, og aðdáendur okkar.

“Ég hef sannað að einfalda strákur frá litlu þorpi án þess að internetið getur orðið meistari. Ef ég get, þú getur. The belt in Orenburg, þar sem það ætti að vera.”

Russian ljós þungavigtar Mikhail Ragozin (8-2-0, M-1: 2-0-0) hætt Alan Bispo De Santana (5-2-0, M-1 0-1-0), Brasilíu, via punches late in the third round.

Brasilískur millivigt Caio “Hellboy” Magalhaes (10-3-0, M-1: 1-0-0) turned in an impressive M-1 debut, using a rear-naked choke hold to submit Dmitry Voitov (15-7-0, M-1: 4-2-0), Hvíta-Rússland, in the opening frame.

American welterweight Keith “Sá eini” Johnson (12-3-0, M-1: 1-0-0) made an auspicious M-1 debut, also using a rear-naked choke to submit his opponent, former M-1 Challenge welterweight title challenger Maksim Grabovich (5-3-0, M-1: 4-3-0), Rússland, late in the third round.

Russian bantamweight Vadim “Bad Santa” Malygin (9-2-1, M-1: 2-1-1) won a three-round unanimous decision over veteran Brazilian fighter, Fabricio “Bill” Sarraff (23-10-0, M-1: 0-2-0).

Í forkeppni kortið aðgerð, Ukrainian bantamweight Alexksander Doskalchuk (7-1-0, M-1: 0-1-0) og Brazilian léttur Rubenilton “Rubinho” Pera (17-5-0, M-1: 1-2-0) were three-round majority decision winners, sig, over Swede Son Le “Buddha” Binh (5-2-0, M-1: 1-1-0) og Orozbek “Nomad” Maripov (5-2-0, M-1: 0-1-0), Kirgisistan; pro-debuting Russian lightweight Roman Bogatov (1-0-0, M-1: 1-0-0) used a bravo choke to submit Brit Richard “Rico” Franco (2-2-0, M-1: 0-1-0) í fyrstu umferð, Russian featherweight Vitali Tverdokhlebov (4-3-0, M-1: 1-0-0) punched out Ukrainian Oleg Mikhailov (0-3-0 (M-1: 0-1-0) í umferð tvö, og Salem Evloev (1-0-0, M-1: 1-0-0) took a three-round unanimous decision from Alexey Dubrovny (0-1-0, M-1: 0-1-0) in a pro-debut battle of Russian bantamweights.

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