 ST. פטרסבורג, רוסיה (דצמבר 15, 2015) – M-1 Global has announced its signing of Russian heavyweight sensation אלכסנדר “דראגו” וולקוב (24-6-0, M-1: 8-3-0) לחוזה קידום מכירות בלעדי.Volkov will battle דניס Smoldarev (11-1-0, M-1: 7-1-0) פבואר 19 for the vacant M-1 Challenge heavyweight championship at אתגר M-1 64 במוסקבה, רוסיה.
The 27-year-old puncher from Moscow returns to the organization in which he made his professional mixed-martial-arts debut April 19, 2009, needing only 80-seconds to stop Nikolay Pleshokov in the second stage of the M-1 Challenge 2009. Volkov went on to capture top honors in the finals of the אתגר M-1 2009, הבסה Ibragim Magomedov for the Russian Team Championships.
6′ 7″, 235-pound Volkov fought under the M-1 Global banner for the next two years, highlighted November 20, 2011 by his opening round punch-out of מול 20,000 fans at M-1 Global: פדור vs. Monson.
בנקודה ההיא, Volkov had won 14 של 17 pro MMA fights and the popular Russian fighter opened 2012 with an impressive decision win over former UFC heavyweight champion Ricco Rodriguez.
Volkov had another victory before heading to the United States in order to test himself in Bellator competition. He won his inaugural Bellator fight against powerful ברט רוג'רס, על ידי החלטה על Bellator 75, in the Bellator Season Seven Heavyweight Tournament.
Two Bellator fights later, Volkov had extended his win streak to 10 in a row, improving overall to 19-3-0 via five-round decision over Richard Hale to capture the vacant Bellator Heavyweight Championship, as well as finish first in the Bellator Season Seven Heavyweight Tournament in Hammond, אינדיאנה, ארה"ב.
In his first fight of 2013, Volkov lost his Bellator heavyweight title in his first defense, as fellow countryman ויטלי Minakov recorded a first-round knockout in Atlantic City, ניו ג'רזי, ארה"ב.
עם זאת, Volkov rebounded with three straight wins in the Bellator Season 10 במשקל כבד טורניר, defeating Bulgarian great Blaygoy Ivanov in the final by way of a second-round rear-naked choke hold. Ivanov is best known, אולי, for defeating living legend פדור Emelianenko in the semifinals on his way to winning the 2008 אליפות העולם סמבו.
Feared as one of the most prolific strikers in MMA today, 17 of Volkov’s 24 overall victims to date were knocked out.
 וולקוב (pictured above to left) makes his M-1 Global return against Smoldarev, של אסטוניה, whose only loss as a professional was to מרצ'ין Tybura (13-1-0, M-1: 7-1-0), who abdicated his M-1 Challenge heavyweight title to reportedly continue his career in the UFC. Tybura made his first successful M-1 Challenge heavyweight title defense November 24, 2014, defeating Smoldarev by third-round submission (לְהַחנִיק), ב אתגר M-1 54 בבייג'ינג, סין.
 The 25-year-old Smoldarev (shown above in the black trunks) has impressive victories against Ante Delia, Maro פראק, Ahmed Sultanov ו Shaban Ka. Smoldarev is also a physical specimen, עומד 6′ 5″ and weighing close to 270 קילו.
אתגר M-1 64 will be streamed live from Moscow in high definition onwww.M1Global.TV. צופים יוכלו לצפות בקרבות הראשוניים ועיקרי כרטיס על ידי כניסה ללהירשם ב www.M1Global.TV. אוהדים יכולים לצפות בכל הפעולה במחשב שלהם, כמו גם על טלפונים חכמים אנדרואיד ואפל וטבליות.
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