အထက် (L to R): Belluardo, Sakara, Yankova, ရော်ဂျာ, Manhoef
တိုရီနို (ဇန်နဝါရီ. 15, 2015) – New details were revealed this afternoon regarding the co-promotion between Bellator သည့် MMA နှင့် Oktagon Kickboxing. The partnership is set to take place on ဧပြီလ 16, 2016, when the two combat sports promotions join forces at the Pala Alpitour in Torino, အီတလီနိုင်ငံ.
Oktagon kickboxing သမ္မတဦးသိန်းစိန် Carlo Di Blasi was joined at Comune Di Torino this afternoon by several of the world-class fighters slated to take part in the highly anticipated event including Alessio Sakara နှင့် ဘရိုင်ယန်ရော်ဂျာ who will face one another in a light heavyweight MMA match up. Also in attendance this afternoon was Dutch knockout machine Melvin Manhoef, who will be competing in a kickboxing match up, and mixed martial artists Danilo Belluardo of Milan and Anastasia Yankova ရုရှားနိုင်ငံ၏.
Although they were not in attendance at today’s press conference, it was announced that one of MMA’s most promising young prospects, A.J. McKee will be fighting Belluardo, and kickboxing standouts Raymond Daniels နှင့် Kevin Ross will be competing as well on April 16.
အဆိုပါအဖြစ်အပျက်နှစ်ခုလုံး Bellator MMA မှနှင့် Oktagon kickboxing အကြိမ်ကြိမ်မည်ဖြစ်သည်, ထို Bellator MMA မှအဘို့ကို Spike ရက်နေ့တွင်အမေရိကန်ပြည်ထောင်စု၌တင်ဆက်နှင့်အတူ. Exact broadcast information and fight card will be announced in the near future.
Bellator MMA မှသမ္မတဦးသိန်းစိန် Scott Coker was unable to be in Italy for this announcement, but added: “We are beyond excited to be announcing the participation of these incredible athletes alongside Carlo Di Blasi. This is an incredible indication of the amazing show that we are putting together, and there is so much more to come!"
Oktagon kickboxing သမ္မတဦးသိန်းစိန် Carlo Di Blasi ကပြောပါတယ်: “When Scott Coker confirmed me of the coming of Bellator MMA in the Olympic city of Turin with Oktagon kickboxing I immediately thought this is actually the biggest hit ever in European history of fighting sport.
“The expectations are really high and I am sure the spectators at venue and on TV will keep this enthusiasm during the whole show.”
ဧပြီလတွင် 16, Italy’s own Alessio Sakara will be making his first appearance for Bellator MMA and looking to build upon his first-round TKO victory this past September. “Legionarius” has competed at 185-pounds for a majority of his nearly 14-year career but going forward the 34-year-old will be facing opponents at light heavyweight. With wins against Joe Vedepo, Thales Leites, နှင့် James Irvin already on his record, Sakara will have plenty to fight for when he enters the fray in front of a partisan crowd on ဧပြီလ 16. It’s worth noting that Sakara has also taken professional boxing tilts, တစ်စံချိန်ပြုစု 8-1 with six wins coming by way of knockout.
Sakara’s opponent ရော်ဂျာ recently moved up in weight classes, making the jump from 185 to 205-pounds. The 31-year-old Strikeforce veteran has been competing under the Bellator MMA banner since 2011 and has had 11 fights along the way. အများစုမှာမကြာသေးမီက, “အဆိုပါ Professional ကပရီဒိတ်တာ” ချော Virgil Zwicker via arm-triangle choke, putting the exceptional roster of Bellator MMA light heavyweights on notice. ယခု, the Denver, CO. based slugger looks to add to his impressive record of finishing fights when competes for the first time in 2016.
The 20-year-old McKee undoubtedly has the attention of everyone in the MMA world after a 3-0 start to his career, and for good reason. The son of respected MMA veteran, Antonio McKee, A.J. fights with fearlessly aggressive, unorthodox approach that results in pure excitement and has fans and media alike clamoring for more. He will be facing Belluardo (5-1), who is sure to have the Italian fans in full support of his effort.
With his stoppage of up-and-coming Bellator MMA middleweight contender Hisaki Kato at the conclusion of 2015, the 39-year-old Manhoef has proven once again that he has plenty left in the tank. “အဘယ်သူမျှမကရုဏာ” has competed in more than 100 professional bouts during his combat sports tenure, with more than 50 of his victories coming by way of knockout. Look for that trend to continue when the dangerous striker returns to action in Northern Italy.
It’s easy to classify Anastasia Yankova အဖြစ် “just another pretty face,” but the 24-year-old Russian Muay Thai Champion has the fighting skills to more than match her good looks. Undefeated thus far in her budding MMA career, the Moscow native has attacked the limbs of both her opponents and earned early submission stoppages, piquing the interest of promotions around the globe. နောက်ဆုံးတွင်, the Akademiya Box product recently signed a long-term contract with Bellator MMA, which continues to build out its impressive women’s flyweight division.
The 35-year-old Ross is a highly regarded American Muay-Thai kickboxer. Ross has racked up a slew of championships during his 52-fight career, including the WBC Muay-Thai USA welterweight title, the WBC Muay-Thai International Super-lightweight title and the Lion Fight Super Lightweight Championship. Known also as “The Soul Assassin,” Ross is working on a transition into the sport of MMA.
ဒံယေလ is a multi-time champion karate fighter who made a name for himself under the now defunct World Combat League banner. A confident, explosive striker who owns some of the most highlight-reel worthy knockouts in kickboxing history, Daniels has only been defeated four times in over 29 appearances while competing in some iteration of combat sports. ယခု, “အဆိုပါရီးရဲလ်သဘောတူညီမှုရ” looks to showcase why he proudly wears the acronym “G.O.A.T.” on the back of his tights when he fights in Torino, အီတလီနိုင်ငံ ဧပြီလ 16.
2015 was a record-shattering year for the Scott Coker-led Bellator promotion. The success was powered by several major events including “Bellator 138: မပြီးဆုံးသေးသောစီးပွားရေး,"သော generated 2.9 သန်းကိုပွဲကြည့်ပရိသတ်တွေနဲ့ "Bellator: ဒိုင်းနမိုက် 1,"တက်ရောက်သူနှင့်တံခါးကုမ္ပဏီတစ်ခုမှတ်တမ်းများထား. အဆိုပါ ဧပြီလ 16 event in Torino marks Bellator’s first-ever event overseas, ဒါပေမယ့်နောက်ဆုံးလိမ့်မည်မဟုတ်, as the promotion has announced plans for additional international events in London and Israel slated for later this year.
