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M-1 Challenge 56 Live, RFA 25 Today on Fight Network

REMINDER – TODAY

Toronto | NEW YORK (April 9, 2015) — Whatunga Fight, pirimia o te ao 24/7 whakatapua pouaka teihana ki te whakaoti i kapinga o hākinakina whawhai, presents a pair of exciting mixed martial arts events today, April 10, timata i 2:15 p.m. AND ki M-1 Challenge 56 from Olympic Stadium in Moscow, Russia, followed by a one-hour tape delay broadcast of RFA 25: Lawrence vs. Toomer from Sioux Falls, South Dakota at 11 p.m. AND.

 

I roto i te Challenge M-1 56 hui matua, a much anticipated rematch pits M-1 Challenge middleweight champion Vyacheslav Vasilevsky ki te kaiwero Ramadan Emeev, plus M-1 Challenge featherweight champion John “Ko tenei te” Buchinger kanohi Aliyar Sarkerov.

 

Whawhai haapurororaa ora a Whatunga o M-1 Challenge 56 Ka rangi ki runga ki TV arotau o Cablevision, Grande Communications, Shentel Cable me Armstrong Cable i roto i te Amerika, motu i roto i te Canada, Pūrere Roku puta noa i Amerika Te Tai Tokerau, a ao i roto i runga i 30 whenua puta noa i Europe, Africa me te Middle Te Tai Rāwhiti. (Note: RFA 25 will not be available on Fight Network’s U.S. feed)

 

I roto i to ratou whawhai tuatahi whakamutunga Mahuru, Vasilevsky captured the belt from Emeev by way of fourth-round stoppage from punches, while Buchinger captured the vacant title with a fourth-round stoppage of Tural Ragimov in the “Whawhai o te Po” this past October. E kore kua Buchinger ngaro te whawhai i roto i tata 3 ½ tau, toa e whitu i roto i te rarangi, me te 10 o tona whakamutunga 11.

 

The fight card for M-1 Challenge 56 ngā:

-Vyacheslav Vasilevsky (26-2) vs. Ramadan Emeev (11-3) – M-1 middleweight title
-Ivan Buchinger (28-4) vs. Aliyar Sarkerov (13-4) – M-1 featherweight title
-Konstantin Gluhov (28-15) vs. Ante Delija (12-2)
-Valery Myasnikov (8-1) vs. Kristijan Silver (8-1)
-Javier Fuentes (2-1) vs. Nikolay Kaushansky (6-1)
-Rakhman Makhazhiev (2-1) vs. Alexey Makhno (8-3)

 

Airing at 11 p.m. AND following Fight Network’s weekly Canadian premiere of IMPACT Wrestling, RFA 25: Lawrence vs. Toomer will feature a main event between RFA featherweight champion Justin “Ko te American Kidd” Lawrence a No. 1 nguha “Super” Sam Toomer, ko wai e te titiro ki te pupuri i ana record tūturu tonu. I roto i te hui tahi-matua, Gabriel “Zangief” Checco meets fellow Brazilian Francisco “Kiko” France for the middleweight title.

 

The fight card for RFA 25: Lawrence vs. Toomer ngā:

-Justin Lawrence (6-2) vs. Sam Toomer (9-0) – RFA featherweight title
-Gabriel Checco (8-1) vs. Francisco France (11-3-1) – RFA middleweight title
-TJ Hepburn (4-0) vs. LaRue Barley (5-0)
-Khalil Rountree (2-0) vs. Cameron Olson (2-0)
-Jordon Larson (5-1) vs. Jarrod ‘LHeureux (7-1)
-Josh Rave (21-11) vs. Geane Herrera (6-0)

 

I Rāhoroi, April 11, catch the UFC Whawhai Night: Gonzaga vs. Cro COP 2 main card live on Fight Network in Canada at 3 p.m. AND. Live pre-fight coverage will lead into the main card i runga i Rāhoroiafternoon with Fight Network’s UFC Pre-Show Live at 2 p.m. AND, ngā arokite, matapae me te tātari.

 

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RFA RETURNS TO TE MOUNT RUSHMORE Tuhinga WITH RUA whawhai TITLE

 

RFA 25 – Lawrence vs. TOOMER

MAHI MAIN:

Justin Lawrence vs. SAM TOOMER

WORLD mā whitu TITLE

CO-MAIN MAHI:

Gabriel vs CHECCO. FRANCISCO FRANCE

WORLD whitu TITLE

FRIDAY, April 10 ORA ON AXSTV
Ora i te Sanford Taparima,Sioux Falls, SD.
Tīkiti i runga i te Sale i roto i Ticketmaster.com

Las Vegas, Nevada – Raa te riri Alliance (RFA) peresideni Ed Soares ua faaara i tenei ra e, e te whakatairanga kia hoki mai ki te āhua o South Dakota i roto i te Paenga-whāwhā, me te kāri tāpae. RFA 25 – Lawrence vs. Ka ngā Toomer he hui matua i waenganui i te rua makau tahi RFA. Toa mā whitu RFA Justin “Ko te American Kidd” Hoki Lawrence ki te whare i riro ia tona taitara whakamutunga raumati. Ka tona korero taitara tuatahi ki #1 nguha “Super” Sam Toomer, ko wai e te titiro ki te pupuri i ana record tūturu tonu. I roto i te hui tahi-matua, Gabriel “Zangief” Tutaki Checco hoa Brazil Māori me RFA vet Francisco “Kiko” France mo te taitara whitu. Ko te hui e wahi Rāmere, April 10 i te Sanford Taparima i Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Ka teata te kāri matua katoa ora me te motu i runga i AXS TV i 10 p.m. AND / 7 p.m. PT.

I’m excited to announce that the RFA is returning to South Dakota with two title fights at RFA 25,” Ua parau Soares. “Justin Lawrence Ko te tangata tuatahi ki te riro i te taitara te ao MMA fakangofua ia i roto i te āhua o South Dakota. Ka tiakina e ia a reira mo te wa tuatahi ki tūturu Sam Toomer i roto i te hui matua. I roto i te tahi-headliner, Gabriel Checco a Francisco France ka mo te wātea RFA taitara whitu whawhai.”

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Lawrence (6-2) hoki ki te pae o te win nui o tona mahi. I RFA Last August 17, riro te itoito a Tūrongo-tau 24-tau te wātea RFA taitara mā whitu mā te besting Mark Dickman mā Decision Lototaha i roto i te mea he nui rawa te tuatahi fakangofua ia whawhai taitara MMA te ao South Dakota o. Ko te win he tika tuarua wikitoria o Lawrence mai hono i te RFA. Before that he had gained worldwide notoriety as a star on the fifteenth season of the UFC’s hit reality show The Ultimate Fighter, te wahi i ia te huri tuatahi whānui. I te whakaaturanga, Lawrence reel miramira i hopukina Tari o o RFA konumohe, me te whetu UFC o nāianei James Krause KO me te whakapehapeha, e iku toa UFC Cristiano Marcello. Lawrence, he rua-wā Golden karapu toa mua, me te meke whakapaipai, anake i te 3-0 record i MMA i te wa, engari tae te hauwhā-whiringa i mua i te imiraa “Whawhai o te Po” a “KO o te Po” mōhio hoki tona nanakia KO o John Cofer i tona tuatahi UFC. Lawrence, nei whawhai i roto i Alliance MMA i Chula Vista, California, he vēkeveke ki te whakaatu kotahi ano ana pūkenga Tūrongo vaunted i roto i tona korero RFA taitara mā whitu tuatahi.

“Kia ahau i rongo e te parururaa i ahau toku whitiki i roto i te South Dakota, Whakaaro ahau he whakamataku tenei,” Ua haamaramarama Lawrence. “Ko te Sanford Taparima ko tetahi o nga wāhi pai i ake whawhai ahau i roto i. Ua ite au whakamarie, he nui te rūma, a ko fantastic te mano. Sam Toomer Ko te maona nui ki te pai te ringa matau. Ka whai ahau ki te whakamahi i taku whana, hīkoinga, and out-finesse him. E tamatahia ia ki te waiho i te kaiwero tika, engari titiro atu ahau ki hoatu ki a ia tona mate tuatahi.”

Toomer (9-0) ka te tangata e wero Lawrence mo RFA koura. Unlike most top mixed martial artists, like Lawrence, e haere mai i te grappling papamuri Tūrongo ranei, Toomer he mo'uí kaitākaro whutupaoro. Heoi, kua hanga hoki te ārai whutupaoro kolisí-tau 27-tau te whakawhiti pai ki MMA mā te whakamahi i tana toa tūturu, ako, and unbreakable work ethic to compile an impressive 9-0 record mai i te tona tuatahi pro e toru tau ki muri. Two of those wins have come in the past eight months after Toomer signed with the RFA. Riro Toomer tona tuatahi RFA i RFA 15 i roto i te Pipiri ki te mahi ngoi. Kite te whawhai tokotahá-tetahi tona hoariri Daniel Aguiar kia akiri i roto i te toru o tawhio noa i muri fakafisi ki te tu me te whawhai Toomer. Ko te win DQ mo Aguiar mā mamahu hoatu ingoa o Toomer i runga i te rima tekau mā whitu mahere RFA rite te nguha taitara tika. I roto i te Hakihea, Ua haapuai Toomer tona take mo te pere taitara ki te pō ngahau win toa mo Lyoto Machida ākonga ia Altair Alencar i RFA 21. Toomer, nei whawhai i roto i te Arena MMA i San Diego, California, E whakarite inaianei ake mo te kupu whakaari nui o tona mahi sipoti i roto i te April, rite wero ia ia te toa RFA tino-tauā Lawrence mo tona taitara.

“Mana'o te reira nui whiwhi ki te whawhai mo te taitara RFA te ao,” Toomer kī. “Kua tuatahi toku tokorua o ngā wheako ki te RFA kua nui, engari ko toku wa tuatahi i rite ki te hui matua tenei a titiro atu ahau ki toa i te taitara. Justin Lawrence He hoariri pai, me te toa mo te take. E rapu ana whakamua ahau ki te mea he whawhai whakaongaonga ki a ia i RFA 25 i roto i te South Dakota.

Ko te hui tahi-matua o RFA 25 Ka ngā ano he whawhai i waenganui i te rua taitara vets RFA ta'na, nei pa ki a whatu e rua i Brazil. Gabriel “Zangief” Checco (8-1) hanga ana tuatahi ao i roto i te Oketopa i roto i te hui matua o RFA 19. I muri haere mai poto ake i roto i tona tono tuatahi mo te taitara whitu RFA i taua po ki Jake Collier, i haina tonu i te UFC, I turapa Checco i roto i te ara nui mua i tenei marama, i RFA 23. He made a huge statement with a blistering first round knockout of the highly-touted The Ultimate Fighter 11 cast member Joseph Henle. Na, Checco e fehangahangai tona hoa teina, me te hoa Jiu-Jitsu whitiki pango Francisco “Kiko” France (11-3-1) mo te taitara. France enters the fight with a ton of momentum after steamrolling his first two opponents in the RFA. Last August, i roto i te haerenga tuatahi o te RFA ki South Dakota, France submitted local standout Isaac Appel with a first round Kimura. Aru ia i taua angitu ki tetahi mutu a tawhio tuatahi i RFA 21 i roto i te Hakihea. I hanga ano e ia tona take mo te taitara koperea i taua po i te tuku i Bellator Tari Mikey Gomez ki te tuatahi a tawhio noa Whitiki-Triangle kowaowaotia.

RFA 25 Ka tohu te hokinga mai o te rua atu vets RFA i roto i te wehenga mā. Apera “Ko te Silent kaikōhuru” Cullum (20-6) Ka maturuturu iho ki te 125-pauna mo te wa tuatahi i roto i tona mahi MMA ngā papa ki te kanohi Sioux Falls Josh taketake “Ko te riri” Rave (24-11). Hanga Cullum he pō ngahau Storybook tenei hinga mua i muri i te faafaaearaa i te hākinakina tau e toru. I roto i tona tuatahi RFA i RFA 18, Tuku Cullum UFC Tari Ulysses Gomez i roto i 89 hēkona. E whā wiki i muri mai i RFA 19, tuku ia runga amanaki Carl Deaton III i roto i te rua o a tawhio. Cullum inaianei makaka ki raro, ki te wehenga mā ki te kanohi Rave, ko wai te mea te mā toa MMA tino rite i roto i te hītori o te tonga Dakota. Ka hoki te eke Rave whakauka ahu ki tenei whawhai. Kua riro ia toru o ona pāngia whakamutunga e wha mai i te tona tuatahi RFA i RFA 2.

 

I roto i te wehenga Kōmāmā, RFA 25 Ka ngā te hokinga mai o T.J. “Ko te kaikiko” Hepburn (4-0), ko wai te mea he maoro RFA tahi tino. Ko ano hoki te ia 2012 NCAA Division II wrestling national champion at 157 lbs. Hepburn ka fehangahangai he hoa 'amanaki Kōmāmā tūturu i roto i te LaRue “Ko te kai” Burley (5-0), hanga e tona tuatahi RFA tino-tapoko nei. Burley te mohiotia whānuitia rite te tangata nana nei i hoatu maramara puru MMA amanaki Bubba Jenkins tona mate tuatahi i roto i te MMA.

 

Jenkins coincidentally fought on the same RFA 3 kāri rite Hepburn me ko te 2011 NCAA Division ahau tohe toa motu i 157 lbs.

The main card will be rounded out with a middleweight bout pitting Anderson Silva protégé Khalil “War Horse” Rountree (2-0) ki Roufusport amanaki Cameron Olsen (2-0) me te a'ee mā e ka kite amanaki mā runga-runga Geane Herrera (7-0) te whawhai i te huamo Ben Nguyen (13-5). Kei te noho ana i tēnei wā Nguyen he win pūkenga e whitu-whawhai, a ka hoki mai ki te kāinga ki a Sioux Falls i muri i hanga i te ingoa hoki ia i roto i Ahitereiria.

Kei te utaina hoki te kāri tuatahi. Makau tahi Local me RFA vets Jordon Larson (5-1), Devin Clark (3-0), a Devin Turner (2-2) Kei te hoki mai ki te whawhai i runga i haerenga hoki tino-tūmanako o te RFA ki to ratou whenua o Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Larson defeated Donavon Winters in his RFA debut at RFA 17 i roto i te August i roto i te a'ee Welterweight tino ngahau. He will face Jarrod L’Heureux (7-1) i roto i te rematch hanganaki fiefia atu. All seven of L’Heureux’s wins have come via submission with his lone loss coming against Larson.

Clark, Hoa tākaro o Larson i muri Edge Academy i Sioux Falls, hoki i riro papau i RFA 17. Riro te powerhouse te marama-taumahamaha mā TKO mo 2012 NFL hukihuki huri Arona Brown. Clark e fehangahangai Omaha hāngai toa Jaquis Williams (4-2). Na, Ka titiro Turner ki te tiki ake i tona win tuatahi RFA ki RFA Tari, me te tino-tauā MMA amanaki Matt Lopez (4-0) i roto i te catchweight a'ee 140-pauna.

Ko te kāri matua katoa o RFA 25 – Lawrence vs. Ka teata Toomer ora i runga i AXS TV tīmata i10 p.m. AND / 7 p.m. PT i te Rāmere, April 10. RFA 25 Ka hei takahanga tuarua o te whakatairanga a i roto i te āhua o South Dakota i muri i te manaaki i te tuatahi hui MMA fakangofua ia i roto i “Ko te State Mount Rushmore” August whakamutunga. Whawhai atu i runga i te RFA 25 kia ka kauwhautia kāri whawhai i roto i nga wiki e haere mai.

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