ST. САНКТ-ПЕЦЯРБУРГ, Расія (Студзеня 19, 2017) – M-1 Global has announced that 2016 M-1 Grand Prix middleweight champion Аляксандр “Бура” Шлеменко будзе загаловак M-1 Challenge 75 ў Маскве.
It has also been announced that American lightweight Keon “The Black Assassin” Caldwell will make his M-1 Global debut versus former M-1 Challenge lightweight champion Максім Divnich.
M-1 Challenge 75 will be streamed live from Moscow in high definition on www.M1Global.TV. Гледачы змогуць назіраць папярэднія баі і асноўны карты, зайшоўшы на рэгістрацыю на www.M1Global.TV. Прыхільнікі могуць глядзець ўсе дзеянні на сваіх кампутарах, а таксама на Android і Apple, смартфонаў і планшэтаў.
Шлеменко (54-9-0. 1 Паўночная Караліна, М-1: 4-0-0), a three-time Bellator champion, перамог былога чэмпіёна М-1 Challenge Вячаслаў Васілеўскі (see picture above with Shlemenko on right) last year in the M-1 Grand Prix Middleweight Championship semifinals and championship final, адпаведна, by three-round majority decision and third-round submission (ўдушэнне). Шлеменко супраць. Vasilevsky I & II were the M-1 Challenge 68 & 64 Fights of the Night.
In a much-anticipated All-Russian middleweight showdown, Shlemenko was supposed to fight reigning M-1 Challenge middleweight champion Рамадан Emeev, who was unfortunately injured during training camp, forcing him out of that match. Vasilevsky replaced Emeev against Shlemenko in the championship final.
У сваім апошнім дзеянні, Shlemenko stopped Кендал Гроўв in the second round of their main event fight on Bellator 162 last October in Memphis, Тэнэсі.
“Alexander Shlemenko fighting in Russia is always a significant event,” M-1 Global прэзідэнт Вадзім Фінкельштэйн сказаў, “as he is a true legend of Russian MMA. His fights always sellout arenas, no matter who his opponent. We all know that the story we started last year at M<-1 Гран-пры 2016 isn’t over, яшчэ. The whole country is waiting for the fight between Russia’s two best middleweights – Alexander Shlemenko and Ramazan Emeev.
“Ramazan was injured and Shlemenko had contractual obligations with Bellator. Так, throughout the past month, we were waiting for Shlemenko to receive permission to fight in Russia. Зараз, we have arranged for him to fight on M-1 Challenge 75. We’ve done a great job to make this possible and now hope that, на гэты раз, we will be able to complete this exciting story.”
Undefeated M-1 Challenge welterweight champion Аляксей Кунченко (15-0-0, М-1: 7-0-0), Расіі, will defend his title against an opponent to be announced, due to originally announced Kazakh challenger, непераўзыдзены Шаўкат Рахмонаў (7-0-0, М-1: 4-0-0), withdrawing due to a knee injury.
Russian welterweight prospect Сяргей “Streetfighter” Romanov (10-1-0, М-1: 3-0-0) faces Russian veteran Магамед “Белы Воўк” Sultanakhmedov (18-5-0, М-1: 10-1-0) на M-1 Challenge 75 карта.
Caldwell (11-3-0, М-1: 0-0-0), fighting out of Georgia, is the US-based Island Fights champion. A powerful puncher who has nine knockouts in his 11 pro victories, Caldwell was supposed to compete in the 13й season of Ultimate Fighter, but he withdrew due to personal reasons. He has had several fights in World Series of Fighting.
A Ukrainian fighting out of Moscow, Divnich captured the vacant M-1 Challenge lightweight title in 2014 на M-1 Challenge 54, прыпынак Джамбулат Курбанов in the third round on punches in the Fight of the Night. У 2015, Divnich lost his first title defense by third-round knockout to Мансур Barnaoui на M-1 Challenge 57. У сваім апошнім баі, Арцём Дамкоўскі knocked out Divnich with a kick in the second-round of their fight this past September at M-1 Challenge 70.
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Каляндар падзей М-1:
M-1 Challenge 74 – Лютага. 18, 2017 – Вуліца. Пецярбург, Расія
M-1 Challenge 75 – Сакавіка 3, 2017 – Масква, Расія
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