סנט פטרסבורג, רוסיה (נובמבר 28, 2018) — אלוף במשקל נוצה M-1 אתגר נייט “הרכבת” Landwehr will make his first title defense December 15, headlining M-1 Global’s final event of the year – M-1 Challenge Battle in Atyrau– versus challenger אנדריי “ברזל” Lezhnev, in Atyrau, קזחסטן.

M-1 Challenge Battle in Atyrau will be live-streamed from Kazakhstan in high definition onwww.M1Global.TV. צופים יוכלו לצפות בקרבות הראשוניים ועיקרי כרטיס על ידי כניסה ללהירשם ב www.M1Global.TV. מאווררים עשויים לצפות בכל פעולה במחשבים שלהם, כמו גם על טלפונים חכמים אנדרואיד ואפל וטבליות. אתגר M-1 97 will also be is available onwww.FITE.TV(כרטיס ראשוני ללא תשלום, $7.99 עבור הכרטיס הראשי).

This will mark the first M-1 Global show in Kazakhstan in three years, מאז אתגר M-1 59: Battle of the Nomads 5 באסטנה, in which Russian star סרגיי Kharitonov knocked out American קני גארנר בסיבוב הראשון.

The 30-year-old Landwehr (11-2-0, M-1: 3-0-0), fighting out of the Nashville suburb of Clarksville, טנסי, captured the coveted M-1 Challenge featherweight title belt this past June at אתגר M-1 95 in Nazran, אינגושטיה, רוסיה. The entertaining American fighter stopped defending champion Khamzat Dalgiev על אגרופים בסיבוב השני. Dalgiev was making his first title defense, after he shocked the MMA world by knocking out longtime M-1 champion איוון Buchinger בסיבוב הפתיחה.

“הרכבת” keeps rollin’

In two other M-1 fights that set-up his title shot, Landwehr won a split decision over ויקטור קולסניק ב אתגר M-1 85, preceded by a third-round stoppage of מיכאיל Korobkovבאמצעות אגרופים ב אתגר M-1 83.

“אל תטעה,” Lanwehr said, “I want to put an ass whooping on everyone in the division. Lezhnev is just the next in line. Don’t think of me as just the champion, think of me as the baddest S.O.B that can make 145 קילו. I will be coming at him as if I am still a hungry challenger trying to make a statement to become a champion.

“I would love to have a tournament with all the contenders. We’d all fight multiple times on one night against everyone and the last man standing is crowned King. אבל, לעת עתה, I will fight who M-1 feels is the next contender. If you have a problem with that, then it means you are not as impressive as a fighter as you think. Because I convinced them in two fights that I was the one for the job and I got the job done in my third (M-1) מאבק.

Fighting out of Ukraine, Lezhnev (18-7-0, M-1; 6-3-0) earned this title shot by winning nine of his last 10 קרבות, including the last three in a row. His victims include another U.S., מַחְסֶה “בולדוג אמריקאי” מוריסון, who lost a unanimous decision to Lezhnev at אתגר M-1 69 ב 2016.

“Landwehr is a typical brawler with nice cardio,” Lezhnev commented. “Everybody who plays by his rules loses. He is also very provocative, he loves creating the hype around him. For a long time, he tried to avoid this fight, challenging guys who passed their prime, because he understood he had no chances against me. But now the time has come to beat that hype out of him.”

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