ST. Petersburg, Rasha (Janairu 19, 2017) – M-1 Global has announced that 2016 M-1 Grand Prix middleweight champion Alexander “Hadari” Shlemenko nufin kanun labarai M-1 Watna 75 a Moscow.
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 Maxim Divnich.
M-1 Watna 75 will be streamed live from Moscow in high definition on www.M1Global.TV. Masu kallo za su iya duba da farko ta faɗa, kuma babban katin ta shiga a kan yin rajistar a www.M1Global.TV. Fans iya duba duk mataki a kan su kwakwalwa, da kuma a kan Android da Apple kaifin baki wayoyin da Allunan.
Shlemenko (54-9-0. 1 NC, M-1: 4-0-0), a three-time Bellator champion, ci tsohon M-1 Challenge Zakaran Vyacheslav Vasilevsky (see picture above with Shlemenko on right) last year in the M-1 Grand Prix Middleweight Championship semifinals and championship final, bi da bi, by three-round majority decision and third-round submission (shaƙa). Shlemenko vs. 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 Ramadan Emeev, who was unfortunately injured during training camp, forcing him out of that match. Vasilevsky replaced Emeev against Shlemenko in the championship final.
A cikin mataki na karshe, Shlemenko stopped Kendall Garka in the second round of their main event fight on Bellator 162 last October in Memphis, Tennessee.
“Alexander Shlemenko fighting in Russia is always a significant event,” M-1 Global shugaban kasa Vadim Finkelchtein ya ce, “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 Grand Prix 2016 isn’t over, duk da haka. 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. Don haka, throughout the past month, we were waiting for Shlemenko to receive permission to fight in Russia. Yanzu, we have arranged for him to fight on M-1 Watna 75. We’ve done a great job to make this possible and now hope that, wannan lokacin, we will be able to complete this exciting story.”
Undefeated M-1 Challenge welterweight champion Alexey Kunchenko (15-0-0, M-1: 7-0-0), Rasha, will defend his title against an opponent to be announced, due to originally announced Kazakh challenger, unbeaten Shaukat Rakhmonov (7-0-0, M-1: 4-0-0), withdrawing due to a knee injury.
Russian welterweight prospect Sergey “Streetfighter” Romanov (10-1-0, M-1: 3-0-0) faces Russian veteran Magomed “Fadar White Wolf” Sultanakhmedov (18-5-0, M-1: 10-1-0) a kan M-1 Watna 75 katin.
Caldwell (11-3-0, M-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 13ga watan season of A Ultimate mai fada, 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 a M-1 Watna 54, tsayawa Dzhambulat Kurbanov in the third round on punches in the Fight of the Night. A 2015, Divnich lost his first title defense by third-round knockout to Mansour Barnaoui a M-1 Watna 57. A cikin karshe yãƙi, Artiom Damkovsky knocked out Divnich with a kick in the second-round of their fight this past September at M-1 Watna 70.
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