เซนต์ปีเตอร์สเบิร์ก, รัสเซีย (พฤศจิกายน 28, 2018) — M-1 ท้าทายแชมป์เฟเธอร์เวท Nate “The Train” Landwehr will make his first title defense December 15, headlining M-1 Global’s final event of the year – M-1 Challenge Battle in Atyrau– versus challenger อันเดรย์ “เหล็ก” Lezhnev, in Atyrau, คาซัคสถาน.

M-1 Challenge Battle in Atyrau will be live-streamed from Kazakhstan in high definition onwww.M1Global.TV. ผู้ชมจะสามารถรับชมการต่อสู้เบื้องต้นและบัตรหลักโดยการเข้าสู่ระบบลงทะเบียนได้ที่ www.M1Global.TV. Fans may watch all the action on their computers, เช่นเดียวกับบน Android และแอปเปิ้ลมาร์ทโฟนและแท็บเล็. M-1 ท้าทาย 97 will also be is available onwww.FITE.TV(preliminary card is free, $7.99 for the main card).

This will mark the first M-1 Global show in Kazakhstan in three years, ตั้งแต่ M-1 ท้าทาย 59: Battle of the Nomads 5 ในอัสตานา, in which Russian star Sergei คาริ knocked out American เคนนีการ์เนอร์ ในรอบแรก.

The 30-year-old Landwehr (11-2-0, M-1: 3-0-0), fighting out of the Nashville suburb of Clarksville, รัฐเทนเนสซี, captured the coveted M-1 Challenge featherweight title belt this past June at M-1 ท้าทาย 95 in Nazran, อินกูเชเตี, รัสเซีย. The entertaining American fighter stopped defending champion คำแสด Dalgiev on punches in the second round. Dalgiev was making his first title defense, after he shocked the MMA world by knocking out longtime M-1 champion อีวาน Buchinger ในการแข่งขันรอบแรก.

“The Train” keeps rollin’

In two other M-1 fights that set-up his title shot, Landwehr won a split decision over Viktor Kolesnik ที่ M-1 ท้าทาย 85, preceded by a third-round stoppage of มิคาอิล Korobkovที่เจาะผ่าน M-1 ท้าทาย 83.

“ทำให้ไม่มีข้อผิดพลาด,” Lanwehr said, “I want to put an ass whooping on everyone in the division. Lezhnev is just the next in line. Don’t think of me as just the champion, think of me as the baddest S.O.B that can make 145 ปอนด์. I will be coming at him as if I am still a hungry challenger trying to make a statement to become a champion.

“I would love to have a tournament with all the contenders. We’d all fight multiple times on one night against everyone and the last man standing is crowned King. แต่, สำหรับตอนนี้, I will fight who M-1 feels is the next contender. If you have a problem with that, then it means you are not as impressive as a fighter as you think. Because I convinced them in two fights that I was the one for the job and I got the job done in my third (M-1) สู้.

Fighting out of Ukraine, Lezhnev (18-7-0, M-1; 6-3-0) earned this title shot by winning nine of his last 10 การต่อสู้, including the last three in a row. His victims include another U.S., ที่กำบัง “อเมริกันบูลด็อก” มอร์ริสัน, who lost a unanimous decision to Lezhnev at M-1 ท้าทาย 69 ใน 2016.

“Landwehr is a typical brawler with nice cardio,” Lezhnev commented. “Everybody who plays by his rules loses. He is also very provocative, he loves creating the hype around him. For a long time, he tried to avoid this fight, challenging guys who passed their prime, because he understood he had no chances against me. But now the time has come to beat that hype out of him.”

ทุกการต่อสู้และการสู้อาจมีการเปลี่ยนแปลง. Additional M-1 Challenge Battle in Atyraufights will soon be announced.

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