CHELYABINSK, Росія (Листопад 5, 2018) — Fists were flying last Friday night at M-1 Challenge 98 as ten of 12 fights ended prematurely, eight by way of knockout punches and two submissions, highlighted by Brazilian mixed-martial-arts veteran Bruno Blindado Silva‘s title-winning stoppage of previously undefeated M-1 Challenge middleweight champion Артем Фролов, в Челябінську, Росія.

Сільва (19-6-0) has taken M-1 Global by storm. He became the top middleweight contender by knocking out Russian MMA star Олександр Шлеменко (56-11-1) in the opening round of M-1 Challenge 93 last June. With his fourth-round knockout by punches of another Russian, Frolov (11-1-0), the power-punching Silva has how stopped 16 з його 19 defeated opponents during his outstanding pro career.

The 27-year-old Frolov, який був 9-0-0 in M-1 competition going into his second title defense last Friday versus Silva, had signed a UFC contract and he was scheduled to fight last month at UFC Moscow. He was forced to withdraw due to injury.

In the co-featured event another undefeated fighter was knocked off, when Russian welterweight Sergey Romanov (15-3-0) handed his Swiss opponent, Urs Pablo Ortmann (8-1-0), his first pro loss, by way of a three-round unanimous decision.

Kazakhstan bantamweight Сергій Морозов (13-4-0) виграв три круглих одноголосним рішенням суддів над Будинок Баїра (7-3-0), Росії.

Російський середньому Ivan Bogdanov kept his unbeaten record intact, вдосконалення до 6-0-0, when he punched out Frenchman Еммануель “Papou Lele” Dawa (7-3-0) в третьому раунді.

Російський напівсередній Boris Medvedev (4-0-0) залишався непереможним, locking in a Rear Naked Choke on his fellow countryman, David Zakaryan (1-1-0) for a win by first-round technical submission.

За попередніми карти, late replacement Олег Попов (4-1-0) registered a second-round technical knockout of fellow Russian heavyweight, Yuriy Fedorov (1-1-0, 1 Північна Кароліна), у другому раунді, while Russian lightweight Magomed Magomedov (12-3-0) put Frenchman Arnaud Kherfallah(5-2-0) to sleep in the opening round.

French middleweight Jean “Panqueca” Petrick (9-3-0) made an impressive M-1 debut by submitting always dangerous Talekh “The Azerbaijan Terminator” Nadzhafzade (7-3-1) with a North-South choke, і Ivan Tsygelnik (2-1-0) won his second pro bout by way of a first-round technical knockout via punches versus Maksim Baruzdin (1-1-0) in a battle of Russian heavyweights.

Denis Sulimov (3-0-0) нокаутував Iliskhan Merzhoev (2-1-0) in the opening round on punches in a match between Russian lightweights, Російський легка Rizvan Simbagaev (4-1-0) was too much for his Ukrainian rival, Alexey Shanin (2-1-0), who was stopped on punches midway through the third and final round, and Russian featherweight Nikita Barkhajov (2-0-0) blasted-out Agoney Romero (7-5-1), Іспанії, в першому раунді.

The 24 competing fighters represented eight different countries: Росія, Бразилія, Франція, Україна, Швейцарія, Іспанія, Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan.