Mikhail Zayats was too much for Marcus Vanttinen

HELSINKI, Finlande (Août 6, 2017) – Des lourds légers de Russie Mikhail Zayats vaincu Marcus “Caveman” Vanttinen by unanimous decision in last night’s M-1 Défi 82événement principal, which headlined the first M-1 Global event held in Finland during the last nine years.

Zayats (23-8-0, M-1: 13-5-0) returned to an M-1 Global-promoted event for the first time in nearly six years. The Russian strongman see pictured below), who had fought the past few years in Bellator, ruined the night for local favorite Vanttinen (24-6-0, M-1: 2-3-0), one of six Finnish fighters on the Helsinki card.

International fighters represented nine different countries: Russie, Finlande, Brésil, USA, Portugal, France, Suisse, Ukraine and Sweden.

Finnish bantamweight Tendon “Jambo” Elonen-Kulmala (15-5-1, M-1: 0-0-1) and Brazilian veteran fighter Heilton (Dos Santos) Davella (15-6-1, M-1: 0-1-1) fought to a three-round split-draw, poids mouche finlandaise Mikhail “Ponton” sila (17-5-0, M-1: 1-0-0) a pris une décision unanime en trois tours de Vitali Branchuk (22-7-0, M-1: 2-3-0), de l'Ukraine.

“Jambo” nails Davella

(L) Silander made hometown fans happy

Perspective russe légère Pavel Gordeev (8-1-0, M-1: 3-0-0) et welters ukrainien Alexander “Iron Capture” Butenko (44-12-3, M-1: 10-2-1), respectivement, won three-round unanimous decisions over Brazilian Michel “Sassarito” Silva (18-7-0, M-1: 0-2-0) et américain Keith “Le One” Johnson (12-3-0, M-1: 1-1-0).

Gordeev is a promising prospect

(L) Butenko and Johnson put on a good show.

Également sur la carte principale, Finnish welterweight Juho Valamaa (15-4-0, M-1: 1-0-0) made a successful M-1 debut with a first-round technical knockout victory of Portugal’s Aires Bendrouis (10-6-0, M-1: 0-1-0).

Valamaa celebrated

Sur la carte préliminaire, Swedish bantamweight Son Le “Buddah” Soldats (5-3-0, M-1: 1-2-0) lost a three-round unanimous decision to Oleg Lichkovakha (8-1-0, M-1: 1-0-0), un combattant de la Russie, and Ukrainian heavyweight Boris “Bora” Polezhay (17-6-0, M-1: 2-1-0) defeated Finland’s Toni Valtonen (27-16-0, M-1: 6-3-0) par décision.

Moyens de Russie Ruslan Shamolov (3-0-0, M-1: 3-0-0) stopped American“Motown” Moses Murrietta (5-1-0, M-1: 1-1-0) dans la manche d'ouverture, léger françaisArnaud Kherfallah (4-1-0, M-1: 1-0-0) used a guillotine choke to force Patrick Pietila (8-5-0, M-1: 0-1-0), de la Finlande, to tap-out in round one, and Russian flyweight Akaki Khorava (2-2-0, M-1: 0-1-0) tapped out in the second round as his Swiss opponent,Frederico “Muskito” Gutzwiller (3-2-0, M-1: 1-0-0), locked on an arm-bar.

In M-1’s popular Medieval Fight, Ukrainian heavyweight Vladimir Nicheporenkodéfaite russe Yuro Slobodyanik by way of a first-round knockout.

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