 ST. PETERSBURG, రష్యా (డిసెంబర్ 15, 2015) – M-1 Global has announced its signing of Russian heavyweight sensation అలెగ్జాండర్ “డ్రాగో” Volkov (24-6-0, M-1: 8-3-0) ఒక ప్రత్యేకమైన ప్రచార కాంట్రాక్టులో.Volkov will battle డెనిస్ Smoldarev (11-1-0, M-1: 7-1-0) ఫిబ్రవరి 19 for the vacant M-1 Challenge heavyweight championship at M-1 ఛాలెంజ్ 64 మాస్కో లో, రష్యా.
The 27-year-old puncher from Moscow returns to the organization in which he made his professional mixed-martial-arts debut April 19, 2009, needing only 80-seconds to stop Nikolay Pleshokov in the second stage of the M-1 Challenge 2009. Volkov went on to capture top honors in the finals of the M-1 ఛాలెంజ్ 2009, ఓడించడం Ibragim Magomedov for the Russian Team Championships.
6′ 7″, 235-pound Volkov fought under the M-1 Global banner for the next two years, highlighted November 20, 2011 by his opening round punch-out of ముందు 20,000 fans at M-1 గ్లోబల్: ఫెడర్ vs. Monson.
అంతటితో, Volkov had won 14 యొక్క 17 pro MMA fights and the popular Russian fighter opened 2012 with an impressive decision win over former UFC heavyweight champion Ricco Rodriguez.
Volkov had another victory before heading to the United States in order to test himself in Bellator competition. He won his inaugural Bellator fight against powerful Brett Rogers, by decision at వారియర్ 75, in the Bellator Season Seven Heavyweight Tournament.
Two Bellator fights later, Volkov had extended his win streak to 10 in a row, improving overall to 19-3-0 via five-round decision over Richard Hale to capture the vacant Bellator Heavyweight Championship, as well as finish first in the Bellator Season Seven Heavyweight Tournament in Hammond, ఇండియానా, USA.
In his first fight of 2013, Volkov lost his Bellator heavyweight title in his first defense, as fellow countryman విటాలీ Minakov recorded a first-round knockout in Atlantic City, న్యూ జెర్సీ, USA.
అయితే, Volkov rebounded with three straight wins in the Bellator Season 10 హెవీవెయిట్ టోర్నమెంట్, defeating Bulgarian great Blaygoy Ivanov in the final by way of a second-round rear-naked choke hold. Ivanov is best known, బహుశా, for defeating living legend ఫెడర్ ఎమేలియనేంకో in the semifinals on his way to winning the 2008 World Sambo Championships.
Feared as one of the most prolific strikers in MMA today, 17 of Volkov’s 24 overall victims to date were knocked out.
 Volkov (pictured above to left) makes his M-1 Global return against Smoldarev, ఈస్టోనియా, whose only loss as a professional was to మార్సిన్ Tybura (13-1-0, M-1: 7-1-0), who abdicated his M-1 Challenge heavyweight title to reportedly continue his career in the UFC. Tybura made his first successful M-1 Challenge heavyweight title defense November 24, 2014, defeating Smoldarev by third-round submission (చౌక్), వద్ద M-1 ఛాలెంజ్ 54 బీజింగ్ లో, చైనా.
 The 25-year-old Smoldarev (shown above in the black trunks) has impressive victories against Ante Delia, మరో Perak, Ahmed Sultanov మరియు Shaban Ka. Smoldarev is also a physical specimen, 6 నిలబడి′ 5″ and weighing close to 270 పౌండ్ల.
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