ST. 圣彼得堡, 俄罗斯 (一月 19, 2017) – M-1 Global has announced that 2016 M-1 Grand Prix middleweight champion 亚历山大 “风暴” Shlemenko 将标题 M-1的挑战 75 在莫斯科.
It has also been announced that American lightweight 基翁 “黑刺客” 考德威尔 will make his M-1 Global debut versus former M-1 Challenge lightweight champion 马克西姆Divnich.
Shlemenko (54-9-0. 1 NC, M-1的: 4-0-0), 三届 Bellator 冠军, 击败了前M-1挑战赛冠军 维亚切斯拉夫·华西列夫斯基 (see picture above with Shlemenko on right) last year in the M-1 Grand Prix Middleweight Championship semifinals and championship final, 分别, by three-round majority decision and third-round submission (呛). 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 斋月Emeev, who was unfortunately injured during training camp, forcing him out of that match. Vasilevsky replaced Emeev against Shlemenko in the championship final.
在他的最后一个动作, Shlemenko stopped 肯德尔格罗夫 in the second round of their main event fight on Bellator 162 last October in Memphis, 田纳西.
“Alexander Shlemenko fighting in Russia is always a significant event,” M-1全球总裁 瓦迪姆·芬克尔希泰因 说, “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 大奖赛 2016 isn’t over, 但. 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. 所以, throughout the past month, we were waiting for Shlemenko to receive permission to fight in Russia. 现在, we have arranged for him to fight on M-1的挑战 75. We’ve done a great job to make this possible and now hope that, 这次, we will be able to complete this exciting story.”
Undefeated M-1 Challenge welterweight champion 阿列克谢Kunchenko (15-0-0, M-1的: 7-0-0), 俄罗斯, will defend his title against an opponent to be announced, due to originally announced Kazakh challenger, 不败 肖卡特·拉赫莫诺夫 (7-0-0, M-1的: 4-0-0), withdrawing due to a knee injury.
Russian welterweight prospect 谢尔盖 “街头霸王” 罗曼诺夫 (10-1-0, M-1的: 3-0-0) faces Russian veteran Magomed “白狼” Sultanakhmedov (18-5-0, M-1的: 10-1-0) 在 M-1的挑战 75 卡.
考德威尔 (11-3-0, M-1的: 0-0-0), fighting out of Georgia, is the US-based Island Fights champion. A powerful puncher who has nine knockouts in his 11 胜利, Caldwell was supposed to compete in the 13日 season of 终极战士, 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 在 M-1的挑战 54, 停车 Dzhambulat·库尔班 in the third round on punches in the Fight of the Night. 在 2015, Divnich lost his first title defense by third-round knockout to 曼苏尔Barnaoui 在 M-1的挑战 57. 在他的最后一战, Artiom Damkovsky knocked out Divnich with a kick in the second-round of their fight this past September at M-1的挑战 70.
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M-1的挑战 74 – 二月. 18, 2017 – 圣. 圣彼得堡, 俄罗斯
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