ST. САНКТ-ПЕТЕРБУРГ, Росія (Січень 19, 2017) – M-1 Global has announced that 2016 M-1 Grand Prix middleweight champion Олександр “Буря” Шлеменко буде заголовок M-1 Challenge 75 в Москві.
It has also been announced that American lightweight Keon “The Black Assassin” Колдвелл will make his M-1 Global debut versus former M-1 Challenge lightweight champion Максим Divnich.
M-1 Challenge 75 will be streamed live from Moscow in high definition on www.M1Global.TV. Глядачі зможуть спостерігати попередні бої і основної картки, зайшовши на реєстрацію на www.M1Global.TV. Шанувальники можуть спостерігати за всіма діями на своїх комп’ютерах, а також на Android і Apple, смартфонів і планшетів.
Шлеменко (54-9-0. 1 Північна Кароліна, М-1: 4-0-0), a three-time Bellator champion, переміг колишнього чемпіона М-1 Challenge В'ячеслав Василевський (see picture above with Shlemenko on right) last year in the M-1 Grand Prix Middleweight Championship semifinals and championship final, відповідно, by three-round majority decision and third-round submission (удушення). Шлеменко проти. 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 своєму останньому дії, Shlemenko stopped Кендалл Гроув in the second round of their main event fight on Bellator 162 last October in Memphis, Теннессі.
“Alexander Shlemenko fighting in Russia is always a significant event,” M-1 Global президент Vadim Finkelchtein сказав, “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-прі 2016 isn’t over, ще. 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 цей раз, we will be able to complete this exciting story.”
Undefeated M-1 Challenge welterweight champion Олексій Кунченко (15-0-0, М-1: 7-0-0), Росії, will defend his title against an opponent to be announced, due to originally announced Kazakh challenger, неперевершений Шаукат Рахмонов (7-0-0, М-1: 4-0-0), withdrawing due to a knee injury.
Russian welterweight prospect Сергій “Streetfighter” Romanov (10-1-0, М-1: 3-0-0) faces Russian veteran Магомед “Білий Вовк” Sultanakhmedov (18-5-0, М-1: 10-1-0) на M-1 Challenge 75 карта.
Колдвелл (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 13ї 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, зупинка Джамбулат Курбанов in the third round on punches in the Fight of the Night. В 2015, Divnich lost his first title defense by third-round knockout to Мансур Barnaoui на M-1 Challenge 57. У своєму останньому бою, Артем Дамковскій knocked out Divnich with a kick in the second-round of their fight this past September at M-1 Challenge 70.
Щебет & Instagram:
@ M1GlobalNews
VFinkelchtein
@ M1Global
Facebook:
M-1 CHALLENGE EVENT CALENDAR:
M-1 Challenge 74 – Лютого. 18, 2017 – Вулиця. Петербург, Росія
M-1 Challenge 75 – Березня 3, 2017 – Москва, Росія
|
