WSOF31: IVANOV VS. COPELAND
MAIN CARD COMPLETE WITH ADDITION

OF THREE NEW, STAR-STUDDED MATCHUPS

အကြော: JOHN HOWARD VS. THIAGO MELLER
featherweight: LUIS PALOMINO VS. SHEYMON MORAES
ဟဲဗီးဝိတ်: CHRIS “HUGGY BEAR” BARNETT VS. JUSTIN WILLIS

LIVE ON NBCSN AT 9 P.M. AND
FROM MASHANTUCKET, CONN. သောကြာနေ့တွင်, ဇှနျ 17

Las Vegas (ဧပြီလ 12, 2016) တိုက်ပွဲများ၏ -World စီးရီး (WSOF.com) today announced the addition of three star-studded matchups to complete the main card for its WSOF31: Ivanov vs. Copeland world heavyweight championship Mixed Martial Arts (MMA မှ) အဖြစ်အပျက်, NBCSN မှာပေါ်အသက်ရှင် 9 p.m. ET / 6 p.m. Mashantucket အတွက် Foxwoods Resort ကိုကာစီနိုကနေ, Conn. သောကြာနေ့တွင်, ဇွန်လ 17.

In a second heavyweight matchup, dynamic, နေထွက်ရာကြယ်ပွင့် ခရစ် "Huggy ထမ်းရွက်" ဘား (14-2) will make his World Series of Fighting debut against Team AKA prodigy Justin Willis (4-1).

Also stepping in the decagon cage for the first time, battle-tested warrior John “Doomsday” Howard (23-12) will collide with submission expert Thiago “Minu” Meller (20-7) တစ်ဦးအကြောအတွက် (170 ပေါင်) ကိစ္စ.

In a featherweight (145 ပေါင်) scrap between two prolific strikers, လူးဝစ် "မြောကျမောငျးမမြိုး" Palomino (24-12) will face off with former world championship challenger Sheymon Mora (8-1).

အဓိကအအဖြစ်အပျက်အတွက်, reigning world heavyweight champion Blagoy Ivanov (13-1) will risk his title against Josh “Cuddly Bear” Copeland (13-1) စဉ်, in the lightweight (155 ပေါင်) Co-ရဲ့အဓိကအဖြစ်အပျက်, စူပါစတား ယာသုန် "ဒီတွင် Kansas City ဒမြ" အမြင့် (19-5) နှင့် သူ Mike "ဒီဂြိုဟ်၏" Ricci (11-4) will square off with their division’s number one contender ranking at stake.

ခရစ်ဘား vs. Justin Willis

After spending the last year and a half making waves in Japan, 5-ခြေလျင်-9, 29-year-old Barnett of Tampa, Fla. will suit up as “Huggy Bear,” and make his way onto a major stage in the U.S. for the first time in his career.

With heavy hands and tremendous agility for a fighter of his massive stature, Barnett has notched 12 သူ့ 14 လမ်းဖြင့်အသက်မွေးဝမ်းကျောင်းအောင်ပွဲ (T က)KO, and has celebrated his wins in flamboyant fashion, with everything from cartwheels to breakdancing to hand stands.

Like Barnett, the stocky, 6-foot-3, 28-အကယ်စင်စစ်r-old Willis, a training partner of Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) greats ကာဣနကို Velasquez ရဲ့ဖြစ်စဉ် နှင့် ဒံယေလ Cormier, has been enjoying success in Japan under the promotion of Inoki Genome Federation (IFG).

Willis will make his first start of 2016, and look to extend his win streak to four consecutive bouts. In his last effort on August 29, he earned a unanimous decision over Rizvan Kuniev တိုကျိုမြို့ရှိ.

လူးဝစ် Palomino vs. Sheymon Mora

The 5-foot-8, 35-year-old Palomino of Miami, Fla. via Lima, Peru is coming off an epic year in which he engaged in twထို, all-out wars with reigning, ပေါ့ပါးချန်ပီယံ Fighting ၏ undefeated ကမ္ဘာ့ဖလားစီးရီး Justin "ဒီ Highlight" Gaethje, both of which earned "Fight of the Month” honors.

After closing out 2015 with a gutsy appearance in World Series of Fighting’s first-ever, တစ်ည, eight-man tournament in which he scored a devastating, ပထမအကျော့ (4:55) WHO က (လာကြတယ်) အပေါ် ကြွယ်ဝသော Patishnock in the event’s quarterfinal stage, before being stopped in the semifinal stage of battle via second round (4:19) WHO က (လာကြတယ်) at the hands ၏ eventual tournament winner ဘရိုင်ယန် Foster, Palomino will return to the featherweight division where he has held two world titles.

The 5-foot-8, 25-year-old Moraes of Rio De Janeiro, Brazil returned to form in his last bout, decimating fellow knockout artist ရော်ဘီ "ပြဿနာများ" Peralta by way of TKO (လာကြတယ်) ဒုတိယအကျော့အတွက် (3:21) of their matchup at WSOF26.

A seasoned Muay Thai stylist, Moraes ran to seven straight victories in his first seven starts as a professional MMA competitor before being handed his first career defeat by way of third round (3:46) နားထောင်ခြင်း (နောက်ဘက်-အဝတ်အချည်းစည်းပိတ်ဆို့) in a title bid against reigning bantamweight (135 ပေါင်) တံခွန်စိုက်သူ Marlon Mora.

John Howard vs. Thiago Meller

Following his second stint with the UFC that spanned seven bouts and included victories over ဥရိယခန်းမ၌, Siyar Bahadurzada နှင့် Cathal Pendred, ထို 5-foot-7, 33-year-old Howard of Boston, mass. will aim to rebound from a second round (:21) KO (လာကြတယ်) အရှုံးမှ Tim Means ဒီဇင်ဘာလပေါ် 10.

ယနေ့အထိ, Howard has notched 15 သူ့ 23 လမ်းဖြင့်အသက်မွေးဝမ်းကျောင်းအောင်ပွဲ (T က)KO သို့မဟုတ်တင်သွင်းခဲ့တဲ့. During his initial run with the UFC between January 2009 and June 2011, Howard scored a memorable, တတိယအကျော့ (4:55) KO (လာကြတယ်) on submission ace Dennis ဟာ "စူပါမင်း" Hallm​​an ဒီဇင်ဘာလပေါ် 5, 2009, marking his third consecutive conquest in the league.

Meller of Porto Alegre, Rio Grande Do Sul, Brazil will look to collect his second win in a row, following his first round submission (နောက်ဘက်-အဝတ်အချည်းစည်းပိတ်ဆို့) ၏ Leonardo Rodriguez ဇွန်လပေါ် 26, 2015.

The 5-foot-10, 33-year-old Meller, a near 13-year veteran of the sport, has emerged victorious in 14 သူ့ 20 career wins, တင်သွင်းခဲ့တဲ့၏လမျးဖွငျ့.

The preliminary bout card lineup for WSOF31: Ivanov vs. Copeland will be announced soon.

ကနေစျေးနှုန်း $39.99, tickets for the event are on sale at WSOF.com and Foxwoods.com.

Doors at The Grand Theatre at Foxwoods Resort Casino will open for WSOF31: Ivanov vs. Copeland, တွင် 5 p.m. AND, နှင့်ပထမဦးဆုံးပဏာမကဒ်နာရီကျော်အချိန်တွင်စတင်မည် 6 p.m.