MOSCOW (November 11, 2017) — M-1 Challenger lightweight champion Damir Ismagulov besegrade Rogerio Karranca in a non-title, Super Fight last night in the M-1 Challenge 85main event, at the Ice Palace in Moscow.

In another true international MMA event, 10 different countries were represented by the 24 fighters: Ryssland, USA, Brasilien, Georgien, Tyskland, Kazakstan, Ukraina, Kroatien, Switzerland and Spain.

Ismagulov (13-2-0, 8-1-0), fighting out of Russia by way of Kazakhstan, needed all five rounds to take a decision over his Brazilian opponent, M-1 Global pro-debuting Karranca (13-3-0, M-1: 0-1-0).

I co-featured händelse, Amerikanskt fjäder Nate “The Train” Landwehr (10-2-0, M-1: 2-0-0) took a three-round decision from always tough Viktor Kolesnik (11-3-1, M-1: 2-1-1), Rysslands.

Georg lätt tungvikt Giga Kukhalashvili (9-3-0, M-1: 2-0-0), undefeated Russian lightweight Abubakar Mestoev (6-0-0, M-1: 6-0-0) and Kazakh flyweight Arman Ashimov(7-2-1, M-1: 2-0-0) all registered opening-round knockout via punches, respektive, over late replacement Sebastian Heil (6-2-0, M-1: 0-1-0), Tyskland, ryska Alexey “Tilldelning” Makhnos (16-6-0, M-1: 4-3-0) och Rodrigo “Dålig pojke” Melonio (16-3-0, M-1: 0-1-0), Tyskland.

På den preliminära kortet, former M-1 Challenge champion Maxim Divnich (13-3-0, M-1: 7-4-0), slåss av Ryssland, lost a decision to hot Russian lightweight prospect Ruslan Rakhmonkulov (11-1-1, M-1: 1-0-0), who was making his M-1 Global debut.

Amerikanskt fjäder “The Finisher” Josh Rättelse House (16-4-0, M-1: 4-0-0) took a three-round decision over Ukranian Alexander Luna (21-11-0, M-1: 1-1-0), as did Ukrainian Andrey “Järn” Lezhnev (17-7-0, M-1: 5-3-0) kontra Russian Ilfat Amirov (9-3-0, M-1: 0-1-0).

Russian middleweight used a rear-naked choke for a second-round submission win against Croatian Kristijan Silver (9-4-2, M-1: 0-3-2) and Russian bantamweight Sergey Klyuev(5-0-0, M-1: 3-0-0) remained unbeaten using an arm-bar for a first-round victory by way of an opening round submission of previously unbeaten Spaniard Oscar Suarez (3-1-1, M-1: 0-1-0).

Georgian flyweight Vazha Tsiptauri (3-1-0, M-1: 1-0-0) employed a Guillotine Choke for a third-round win by submission over his Swiss opponent, Frederico Gutzwiller (3-3-0, M-1: 1-1-0), medan Maxim Yakobyuk (2-0-0, M-1: 1-0-0) forced Victor “Tatra” Trushov (2-1-0) into a second-round submission in a battle of Russian heavyweights.

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