САНКТ-ПЕТЕРБУРГ, Русија (Новембар 28, 2018) — М-1 Цхалленге перо шампион Nate “The Train” 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 Андреј “Гвожђе” Лезхнев, in Atyrau, Казахстан.

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This will mark the first M-1 Global show in Kazakhstan in three years, од М-1 Цхалленге 59: Battle of the Nomads 5 у Астани, in which Russian star Сергеј Харитонов knocked out American Кени Гарнер у првом кругу.

The 30-year-old Landwehr (11-2-0, М-1: 3-0-0), fighting out of the Nashville suburb of Clarksville, Тенеси, captured the coveted M-1 Challenge featherweight title belt this past June at М-1 Цхалленге 95 in Nazran, Ингушетија, Русија. The entertaining American fighter stopped defending champion Кхамзат Далгиев on punches in the second round. Dalgiev was making his first title defense, after he shocked the MMA world by knocking out longtime M-1 champion Иван Буцхингер у првом колу.

“The Train” keeps rollin’

In two other M-1 fights that set-up his title shot, Landwehr won a split decision over Виктор Колесник у М-1 Цхалленге 85, preceded by a third-round stoppage of Михаил Коробковпреко удараца у М-1 Цхалленге 83.

“Да не буде забуне,” 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 фунти. 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. Али, за сада, 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 (М-1) борба.

Fighting out of Ukraine, Лезхнев (18-7-0, М-1; 6-3-0) earned this title shot by winning nine of his last 10 туче, including the last three in a row. His victims include another U.S., Ли “Амерички булдог” Моррисон, who lost a unanimous decision to Lezhnev at М-1 Цхалленге 69 у 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.”

Сви противници и борци су подложни промени. Додатни M-1 Challenge Battle in Atyrauборбе ће ускоро бити објављене.

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