ST. 聖彼得堡, 俄羅斯 (一月 19, 2017) – M-1 Global宣布 2016 M-1 Grand Prix middleweight champion 亞歷山大 “風暴” Shlemenko 將標題 M-1的挑戰 75 在莫斯科.
It has also been announced that American lightweight 基恩 “黑刺客” 考德威爾 will make his M-1 Global debut versus former M-1 Challenge lightweight champion 馬克西姆Divnich.
Shlemenko (54-9-0. 1 NC, M-1的: 4-0-0), a three-time Bellator champion, 擊敗了前M-1挑戰賽冠軍 維亞切斯拉夫·華西列夫斯基 (see picture above with Shlemenko on right) last year in the M-1 Grand Prix Middleweight Championship semifinals and championship final, 分別, by three-round majority decision and third-round submission (嗆). 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 齋月Emeev, who was unfortunately injured during training camp, forcing him out of that match. Vasilevsky replaced Emeev against Shlemenko in the championship final.
在他的最後一個動作, Shlemenko stopped 肯德爾格羅夫 in the second round of their main event fight on Bellator 162 last October in Memphis, 田納西.
“Alexander Shlemenko fighting in Russia is always a significant event,” M-1全球總裁 Vadim Finkelchtein 說, “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 大獎賽 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. 現在, we have arranged for him to fight on M-1的挑戰 75. We’ve done a great job to make this possible and now hope that, 這次, we will be able to complete this exciting story.”
Undefeated M-1 Challenge welterweight champion 阿列克謝Kunchenko (15-0-0, M-1的: 7-0-0), 俄羅斯, will defend his title against an opponent to be announced, due to originally announced Kazakh challenger, 不敗 肖卡特·拉赫莫諾夫 (7-0-0, M-1的: 4-0-0), withdrawing due to a knee injury.
Russian welterweight prospect 謝爾蓋 “街頭霸王” 羅曼諾夫 (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的挑戰 75 卡.
考德威爾 (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 親勝利, Caldwell was supposed to compete in the 13日 season of 終極戰士, 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的挑戰 54, 停車 Dzhambulat·庫爾班 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 曼蘇爾Barnaoui 在 M-1的挑戰 57. 在他的最後一戰, Artiom Damkovsky knocked out Divnich with a kick in the second-round of their fight this past September at M-1的挑戰 70.
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M-1挑戰活動日曆:
M-1的挑戰 74 – 二月. 18, 2017 – 聖. 聖彼得堡, 俄羅斯
M-1的挑戰 75 – 三月 3, 2017 – 莫斯科, 俄羅斯
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