Mikhail Zayats was too much for Marcus Vanttinen

HELSINKI, Finland (Серпня 6, 2017) – Російський напівважкій Mikhail Zayats переможений Маркус “Печерна людина” Vanttinen by unanimous decision in last night’s M-1 Challenge 82головна подія, which headlined the first M-1 Global event held in Finland during the last nine years.

Zayats (23-8-0, М-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, М-1: 2-3-0), one of six Finnish fighters on the Helsinki card.

International fighters represented nine different countries: Росія, Finland, Бразилія, США, Португалія, Франція, Швейцарія, Ukraine and Sweden.

Finnish bantamweight Janne “Jambo” Elonen-Kulmala (15-5-1, М-1: 0-0-1) and Brazilian veteran fighter Heilton (Dos Santos) Davella (15-6-1, М-1: 0-1-1) fought to a three-round split-draw, Finnish flyweight Mikhail “Халк” Silander (17-5-0, М-1: 1-0-0) took a three-round unanimous decision from Vitali Branchuk (22-7-0, М-1: 2-3-0), Україна.

“Jambo” nails Davella

(L) Silander made hometown fans happy

Russian lightweight prospect Pavel Gordeev (8-1-0, М-1: 3-0-0) and Ukrainian welterweight Олександр “Iron Capture” Butenko (44-12-3, М-1: 10-2-1), відповідно, won three-round unanimous decisions over Brazilian Мішель “Sassarito” Сільва (18-7-0, М-1: 0-2-0) and American Кит “Один” Джонсон (12-3-0, М-1: 1-1-0).

Gordeev is a promising prospect

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

Also on the main card, Finnish welterweight Juho Valamaa (15-4-0, М-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, М-1: 0-1-0).

Valamaa celebrated

За попередніми карти, Swedish bantamweight Son Le “Buddah” Binh (5-3-0, М-1: 1-2-0) lost a three-round unanimous decision to Oleg Lichkovakha (8-1-0, М-1: 1-0-0), боротьби з Росії, and Ukrainian heavyweight Boris “Bora” Polezhay (17-6-0, М-1: 2-1-0) defeated Finland’s Toni Valtonen (27-16-0, М-1: 6-3-0) за рішенням.

Російський середньому Ruslan Shamolov (3-0-0, М-1: 3-0-0) stopped American“Motown” Moses Murrietta (5-1-0, М-1: 1-1-0) в першому раунді, French lightweightArnaud Kherfallah (4-1-0, М-1: 1-0-0) used a guillotine choke to force Patrik Pietila (8-5-0, М-1: 0-1-0), Фінляндії, to tap-out in round one, and Russian flyweight Akaki Khorava (2-2-0, М-1: 0-1-0) tapped out in the second round as his Swiss opponent,Frederico “Muskito” Gutzwiller (3-2-0, М-1: 1-0-0), locked on an arm-bar.

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

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