ST. PETERSBURG, რუსეთი (იანვარი 19, 2017) – M-1 Global has announced that 2016 M-1 Grand Prix middleweight champion ალექსანდრე “Storm” Shlemenko იქნება სათაურით M-1 Challenge 75 მოსკოვში.

It has also been announced that American lightweight Keon “The Black Assassin” კალდუელი will make his M-1 Global debut versus former M-1 Challenge lightweight champion Maxim Divnich.

M-1 Challenge 75 will be streamed live from Moscow in high definition on www.M1Global.TV. დამთვალიერებელს საშუალება ექნება უყუროს წინასწარი იბრძვის და ძირითადი ბარათის ხე on დარეგისტრირდეთ www.M1Global.TV. Fans შეიძლება ნახოთ ყველა ქმედება მათი კომპიუტერები, ისევე როგორც Android და Apple სმარტ ტელეფონები და ტრაფარეტები.

Shlemenko (54-9-0. 1 NC, M-1: 4-0-0), a three-time Bellator champion, დაამარცხა ყოფილი M-1 Challenge ჩემპიონი ვიაჩესლავ Vasilevsky (see picture above with Shlemenko on right) last year in the M-1 Grand Prix Middleweight Championship semifinals and championship final, შესაბამისად, by three-round majority decision and third-round submission (choke). 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.

მისი ბოლო მოქმედება, Shlemenko stopped Kendall Grove 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 პრეზიდენტი ვადიმ ფინკელხტეინი განაცხადა, “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, ჯერ. 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. ასე, throughout the past month, we were waiting for Shlemenko to receive permission to fight in Russia. ახლა, 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, ამ დროს, we will be able to complete this exciting story.”

Undefeated M-1 Challenge welterweight champion ალექსეი Kunchenko (15-0-0, M-1: 7-0-0), რუსეთის, 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 სერგეი “Streetfighter” Romanov (10-1-0, M-1: 3-0-0) faces Russian veteran მაგომედ “თეთრი Wolf” Sultanakhmedov (18-5-0, M-1: 10-1-0) შესახებ M-1 Challenge 75 ანკეტა.

კალდუელი (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 13^ე season of The 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 at M-1 Challenge 54, შეჩერების ჯამბულატ ყურბანოვი in the third round on punches in the Fight of the Night. In 2015, Divnich lost his first title defense by third-round knockout to Mansour Barnaoui at M-1 Challenge 57. მისი ბოლო ბრძოლა, არტიომ Damkovsky 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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