ST. PETERSBURG, Nga (Tháng giêng 19, 2017) – M-1 Global has announced that 2016 M-1 Grand Prix middleweight champion Alexander “Bão” Shlemenko sẽ tiêu đề M-1 Challenge 75 ở 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 Challenge 75 sẽ được truyền trực tiếp từ Moscow ở độ nét cao trên www.M1Global.TV. Người xem sẽ có thể xem các trận đấu sơ bộ và thẻ chính bằng cách đăng nhập vào để đăng ký tại www.M1Global.TV. Fans may watch all the action on their computers, cũng như trên Android và Apple điện thoại thông minh và máy tính bảng.
Shlemenko (54-9-0. 1 NC, M-1: 4-0-0), a three-time Bellator champion, đánh bại cựu vô địch M-1 Challenge Vyacheslav Vasilevsky (see picture above with Shlemenko on right) last year in the M-1 Grand Prix Middleweight Championship semifinals and championship final, tương ứng, by three-round majority decision and third-round submission (ngộp thở). 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.
Trong hành động cuối cùng của ông, 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,” Tổng thống M-1 toàn cầu Vadim Finkelchtein nói, “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, nhưng. 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. Như vậy, throughout the past month, we were waiting for Shlemenko to receive permission to fight in Russia. Hiện nay, 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, thời gian này, 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), Nga, will defend his title against an opponent to be announced, due to originally announced Kazakh challenger, bất bại 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 “The White Wolf” Sultanakhmedov (18-5-0, M-1: 10-1-0) ở trên M-1 Challenge 75 thẻ.
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 13th 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 tại M-1 Challenge 54, dừng Dzhambulat Kurbanov in the third round on punches in the Fight of the Night. Trong 2015, Divnich lost his first title defense by third-round knockout to Mansour Barnaoui tại M-1 Challenge 57. Trong cuộc chiến cuối cùng của ông, Artiom 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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