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Ramasan Emeev finishes off Vyacheslav Vasilevsky to recapture the coveted M-1 Challenge middleweight title

MOSCOW (April 11, 2015) – Toa taumahawaenga M-1 Challenge muaKotēhia Emeev (12-3-0) recaptured the coveted title from defending championVyacheslav Vasilevsky (26-3-0) in last night’s M-1 Challenge 56 main event in Moscow, Russia.

Emeev used a perfectly executed rear-naked choke to defeat Vasilevsky by submission at the 1:47 tohu o te rauna tuatahi.

Vasilevsky had taken title belt from Emeev this past Mahuru 7 i roto i te St. Petersburg iM-1 Challenge 51: Fightspirit with a fourth-round stoppage from punches in the first showdown between the two Russian fighters. A Vasilevsky-Emeev rematch was a natural from the moment their first fight ended and now there is a potential trilogy match.

The 27-year-old Emeev, who lives and trains in Makhachkala, Russia, originally won the vacant M-1 Challenge middleweight title April 9, 2012, recording a knockout (aro) o Mario Miranda (14-4-0) i roto i te toru a taka i M-1 Challenge 38. Emeev successfully defended his title five months later with a five-round decision over Miranda in a rematch and he hadn’t fought since losing to Vasilevsky.

The 26-year-old Vasilevsky had his 10 fight win streaks snapped by Emeev. He had won 16 o tona whakamutunga 17 fights and was making his first M-1 Challenge middleweight title defense against Emeev. The loss also was Vyacheslav’s first in nine M-1 Global-promoted shows, including four M-1 Challenge events.

Toa mā M-1 Challenge John “Ko tenei te” Buchinger (29-4-0) patototanga a roto iAliyar “Tiger” Sarkerov (12-5-0), who was a late replacement Pūnaha Nizami (9-2-0) with a punch in the second round of their non-title fight.

Croatian light heavyweight Kristian “Klitschko” Silver (8-1-1) and former M-1 Challenge champion Valery “The Russian Hammer” Myasnikov (8-1-1) battled to a three-round draw.

Croatian heavyweight I mua i “Walking Trouble” Delia (13-2-0) won a hard fought three-round decision over Latvian veteran Konstantin “Lacplesis” Gluhova (28-16-0).

Spanish ono tekau Javier Fuentes (6-0-0) i pupuri i tona record tino tonu, winning a second-round technical submission of Nikolay “Cat” Kaushansky (6-2-0), o Russia, by way of a triangle choke.

In preliminary fight action, Russian ono tekau Ali Abdulkhalikov (3-0-0) needed only 34-seconds to knockout Spain’s Joel Alvarez Gonzalez (4-1-0) with a spinning heel kick in a battle of previously unbeaten fighters, Alexey “Taumahi” Makhno (9-3-0) stopped fellow Russian lightweight Rakhman Makhazhiev (3-2-0) with a punch in the third round, Abukar Yandiev (3-0-0) locked in a rear naked choke hold to submit fellow Russian middleweight Gevorg Charchyan (1-1-0) midway through the opening round. Tekau mā Russian Zalimek Omarov (4-1-1) punched out countrymanArtiom Lobanov (2-2-0) i roto i te rua o a tawhio noa, and Polish welterweight Mikara Wiencek (5-2-0) defeated Russian opponent Rustam Gadzhiev (4-3-0) by way of a third-round submission resulting from a rear naked choke.

Kua oti te hua me te taiwhanga pikitia i raro:

Emeev is M-1 Challenge 56 middleweight champion again

Emeev consoles Vasilevsky after their fight

Buchinger nails Sarkerov

(L-R) Konstantin Gluhov & Ante Delija.

M-1 Medieval welterweight fighting knight Evgeniy Bedenko & Ivan Vasiliev

Gevorg Charchyan & Abukar Yandiev

Javier Fuentes mounts Nikolay Kaushansky

Joel Alvarez Gonzalez & Ali Abdulkhalikov

Kristijan Silver & Valery Myasnikov

Michal Wiencek locks rear-naked choke on Rustam Gadzhiev

Zalimbek Omarov & Artiom Lobanov

Rakhman Makhazhiev & Alexey Makhno

Takahanga ka ū mai: M-1 Challenge 57, Kia 2, 2015 i roto i te Orenburg, Russia.

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