M-1 Challenge 57 hua & pikitia – Puetz defeats Tybura, Barnaoui upsets Divnich

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M-1 CHALLENGE 57: IN THE HEART OF THE CONTINENT

Marcin Tybura, M-1 Challenge Heavyweight Champion

vs.

Stephan PUETZ, M-1 Light Heavyweight Champion

MAXIM DIVNICH vs. MANSOUR ‘Tarzan’ BARNAOUI

M-1 Challenge Lightweight Championship

Kia 2, 2015 ● Orenburg, Russia

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M-1 Challenge 57: Battle i roto i te Heart o te fenua

Puetz stops Tybura in Heavyweight Superfight

Barnaoui takes Divnich’s title belt

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Stephan Puetz defeated Marcin Tybura in Heavyweight Super Fight

ORENBURG, Russia (Kia 2, 2015) – M-1 Challenge light heavyweight title holder Stephan “T-800” Puetz defeated previously undefeated M-1 Challenge heavyweight champion Marcin “Tybur” Tubura i roto i te i teie pô o te heavyweight super fight that headlined M-1 Challenge 57: Battle i roto i te Heart o te fenua i roto i te Orenburg, Russia.

I roto i te tahi-āhuatanga, kaiwero Mansour “Tarzan” Barnaoui upset defending champion Max Divnich to capture the M-1 Challenge lightweight championship.

Puetz (13-1-0, 6 KO / TKO, 4 SUB) established himself as a genuine MMA star by defeating the larger Tybura (12-1-0, 3 KO / TKO, 4 SUB). The ultra-talented German won his fourth straight M-1 Challenge fight with a third-round technical knockout of the Polish heavyweight, who was unbeaten in six previous M-1 Challenge bouts, resulting from the doctor’s stoppage.

Barnaoui (12-2-0, 4 KO / TKO, 7 SUB), fighting out of France, stopped previously undefeated champion Divnich (11-1-0, 6 KO / TKO, 1 SUB), o Russia, in the second round via punches.

Hoki whawhai i runga i te kāri matua, Welterweight Russian Alexei Kunchenko (9-0-0, 6 KO / TKO, 2 SUB) knocked out British challenger Dez “The Arm Collector” Parker (4-2-0, 1 KO / TKO, 3 SUB) i roto i te kuwaha a taka noa, Tekau mā Russian Magomed Idrisov (5-0-0, 2 KO / TKO, 0 SUB) won a three-round decision over German invader Max Coga (11-4-0, 2 KO / TKO, SUB), me te mā Russian Nikita “Piranha” Chistyakov (4-1-0, 0 KO / TKO, 1 SUB) took a hard fought three-round decision from Frenchman Moktar “Le Benkaci” Benkaci (11-6-0, 3 KO / TKO, 7 SUB).

In preliminary bouts, Kōmāmā Murad Mirzabekov (2-1-0, 0 SUB) knocked out fellow Russian Fabrice Dato (6-2-0, 2 KO / TKO, 2 SUB) i roto i te taka noa tuatahi, Russian heavyweight Kurban Ibragimov (3-2-0, 2 KO / TKO, 0 SUB) punched his way to a second-round victory over Spaniard Rawiri Trallero (1-2-0, 1 KO / TKO), Taumahamaha te marama Russian Rashid Yusupov (5-1-0, 1 KO / TKO, 2 SUB) registered an impressive first-round KO of Russian Mitry Medvedev (7-5-0, 3 KO / TKO, 3 SUB), Arama “Beard” Yandiev (6-0-0, 3 KO / TKO, 3 SUB) remained undefeated with an opening-round submission (kowaowaotia iho pororere) win against Dmitriy Adeev (1-2-0, 1 KO / TKO) in a battle of Russian light heavyweights, Damir Ismagulov (2-1-0, 1 KO / TKO, 0 SUB) took a three-round unanimous decision from fellow Russian lightweight Sergey Andreev (5-4-0, 2 KO / TKO, 2 SUB), Kazakhstan welterweight Shaukat Rakhmonov (2-0-0, 1 KO / TKO, 1 SUB) punched out Bartos “Hulk” Chyrek (4-2-0, 4 SUB) i roto i te taka noa tuatahi, me te mā Russian Timur Nagibin (7-1-0, 2 KO / TKO, 0 SUB) patototanga a roto i Akhmandjon Mamurov (0-1-0), o Tajikistan, i roto i te kotahi a tawhio noa.