СТ. ПЕТЕРСБУРГ, Русија (Јануар 19, 2017) – M-1 Global has announced that 2016 M-1 Grand Prix middleweight champion Александар “Олуја” Шлеменко воља наслов М-1 Цхалленге 75 у Москви.

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

М-1 Цхалленге 75 преносиће се уживо из Москве у високој резолуцији ввв.М1Глобал.ТВ. Гледаоци ће моћи да прате прелиминарне борбе и главну картицу пријавом на региструју на ввв.М1Глобал.ТВ. Навијачи могу да гледају све акције на својим рачунарима, као и на Андроид и Аппле паметних телефона и таблета.

Шлеменко (54-9-0. 1 НЦ, М-1: 4-0-0), a three-time Bellator champion, победивши бившег М-1 Цхалленге шампиона Вачеслав Василевскиј (see picture above with Shlemenko on right) last year in the M-1 Grand Prix Middleweight Championship semifinals and championship final, односно, by three-round majority decision and third-round submission (чок). Шлеменко вс. 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 Емеев, who was unfortunately injured during training camp, forcing him out of that match. Vasilevsky replaced Emeev against Shlemenko in the championship final.

У свом последњем акцији, Shlemenko stopped Кендалл Грове in the second round of their main event fight on Беллатор 162 last October in Memphis, Тенеси.

“Alexander Shlemenko fighting in Russia is always a significant event,” М-1 Глобал председник Вадим Финкелхтејн рекао, “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 Главна награда 2016 isn’t over, још. 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. Тако, throughout the past month, we were waiting for Shlemenko to receive permission to fight in Russia. Сада, we have arranged for him to fight on М-1 Цхалленге 75. We’ve done a great job to make this possible and now hope that, овај пут, we will be able to complete this exciting story.”

Undefeated M-1 Challenge welterweight champion Алексеј Кунцхенко (15-0-0, М-1: 7-0-0), Русије, will defend his title against an opponent to be announced, due to originally announced Kazakh challenger, неумућен Схаукат Ракхмонов (7-0-0, М-1: 4-0-0), withdrawing due to a knee injury.

Russian welterweight prospect Сергеј “Streetfighter” Romanov (10-1-0, М-1: 3-0-0) faces Russian veteran Магомед “Вхите Волф” Султанакхмедов (18-5-0, М-1: 10-1-0) на М-1 Цхалленге 75 картица.

Цалдвелл (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 13^тх season of Ултимате Фигхтер, 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 у М-1 Цхалленге 54, заустављање Дзхамбулат 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 Мансоур Барнаоуи у М-1 Цхалленге 57. У свом последњем борби, Артиом Дамковски knocked out Divnich with a kick in the second-round of their fight this past September at М-1 Цхалленге 70.

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