ST. PETERSBURG, Russland (Februar 2, 2017) – The February 18^th M-en utfordring 74 card in St. Petersburg got even more interesting with M-1Global’s announcement that a fight between fans of arch-rival Russian soccer (non-American football) teams will square-off in full team colors.

I hovedturneringen, undefeated M-1 Challenge light heavyweight champion Rashid Yusupov (6-0-0, M-1: 4-0-0), av Russland, defends his title against former titlist Stephan “T-800” Puetz (15-2-0, M-1: 6-1-0), Tyskland.

M-1 Challenge lette mester Alexander “Iron Capture” Butenko (42-11-2, M-1: 9-1-0) ansikter challenger Abukar Yandiev (8-1-0, M-1: 2-1-0) iM-en utfordring 74 co-feature.

Billed as the first MMA fight part of a major event to feature MMA fighters who are also fans of two of the top soccer clubs in Russia, CSKA and Spartak, battling between the ropes to determine the strongest soccer fan under MMA rules, not in the street.

Lett tungvekt Dmitry Tebekin (4-2-0, M-1: 0-0-0), representing CSKA, will throw-down against Spartak fan Arthur Reig Tjul’parov (1-0-0, M-1: 1-0-0). Tebekin was the St. Petersburg Cup winner and vice-champion of St. Petersburg, while Tjul’parov was also vice-champion of St. Petersburg as well as the third-place finisher in the All-Russian Grand Prix

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M-en utfordring 74 vil bli streamet live fra St. Petersburg i HD påwww.M1Global.TV. Seerne vil kunne se de foreløpige kamper og hovedkortet ved å logge deg på for å registrere seg på www.M1Global.TV. Fans kan se alt som skjer på sine datamaskiner, så vel som på Android og Apple smarttelefoner og nettbrett.

Also fighting on the M-en utfordring 74 hovedkortet, in addition to Yusupov-Puetz and Butenko-Yandiev, is former M-1 Challenge bantamweight champion Vitaly Branchuk (21-6-0, M-1: 1-2-0), i Ukraina, vs. Frenchman Moktar “Le Kabyle” Benkaci (13-7-0); two-time M-1 Challenge lightweight title challengerArtiom Damkovsky (22-10-1, M-1: 12-7-0), Hviterussland, vs. ubeseiretBrazilian Pablo “Negao” Pear (7-0-0, M-1: 0-0-0), and Ukrainian welterweight Vyacheslav “Bison” Bogomol (9-3-0, M-1: 0-1-0) vs. ubeseiretPablo Ortmann (6-0-0, M-1: 0-0-0), of Switzerland.