СТ. PETERSBURG, Русија (Јануари 19, 2017) – M-1 Global has announced that 2016 M-1 Grand Prix middleweight champion Александар “Бура” Shlemenko волја наслов М-1 предизвик 75 во Москва.
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 Максим Divnich.
М-1 предизвик 75 will be streamed live from Moscow in high definition on www.M1Global.TV. Гледачите ќе бидат во можност да се види на прелиминарните борби и главните картичка со најавување за да се регистрирам www.M1Global.TV. Fans may watch all the action on their computers, како и на Android и Apple за паметни телефони и таблети.
Shlemenko (54-9-0. 1 Соединетите Американски Држави, M-1: 4-0-0), a three-time Bellator champion, го победи поранешниот шампион М-1 предизвик Вјачеслав Vasilevsky (see picture above with Shlemenko on right) last year in the M-1 Grand Prix Middleweight Championship semifinals and championship final, соодветно, by three-round majority decision and third-round submission (задави). 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 Рамазан Emeev, who was unfortunately injured during training camp, forcing him out of that match. Vasilevsky replaced Emeev against Shlemenko in the championship final.
Во неговата последна акција, Shlemenko stopped Кендал Grove in the second round of their main event fight on Bellator 162 last October in Memphis, Тенеси.
“Alexander Shlemenko fighting in Russia is always a significant event,” М-1 Глобална претседател Vadim Finkelchtein рече, “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 при 2016 isn’t over, уште. 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. Значи, throughout the past month, we were waiting for Shlemenko to receive permission to fight in Russia. Сега, we have arranged for him to fight on М-1 предизвик 75. We’ve done a great job to make this possible and now hope that, овој пат, we will be able to complete this exciting story.”
Undefeated M-1 Challenge welterweight champion Алексеј Kunchenko (15-0-0, M-1: 7-0-0), на Русија, will defend his title against an opponent to be announced, due to originally announced Kazakh challenger, без пораз Шаукат Rakhmonov (7-0-0, M-1: 4-0-0), withdrawing due to a knee injury.
Russian welterweight prospect Сергеј “Streetfighter” Romanov (10-1-0, M-1: 3-0-0) faces Russian veteran Магомед “Белата Волкот” Sultanakhmedov (18-5-0, M-1: 10-1-0) на М-1 предизвик 75 картичка.
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 13та season of The Ultimate борец, 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 М-1 предизвик 54, запирање Dzhambulat Kurbanov in the third round on punches in the Fight of the Night. Во 2015, Divnich lost his first title defense by third-round knockout to Мансур Barnaoui на М-1 предизвик 57. Во неговата последна борба, Artiom Damkovsky knocked out Divnich with a kick in the second-round of their fight this past September at М-1 предизвик 70.
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M-1 CHALLENGE EVENT CALENDAR:
М-1 предизвик 74 – Февруари. 18, 2017 – Свети. Петерсбург, Русија
М-1 предизвик 75 – Март 3, 2017 – Москва, Русија
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