I-CHELYABINSK, Russia (November 5, 2018) — Izibhakela bezindiza ngoLwesihlanu olwedlule ebusuku ngo M-1 Challenge 98 njengeshumi kwe 12 izimpi zaphela ngaphambi kwesikhathi, eziyisishiyagalombili ngendlela yokushaywa ngezibhakela kanye nezethulo ezimbili, kugqanyiswe umakadebona we-mixed-karate yaseBrazil Bruno Blindado Silva‘ukumisa ukunqoba isicoco kukampetha we-M-1 Challenge middleweight owayengakaze ehlulwe Artem Frolov, waseChelyabinsk, Russia.

Silva (19-6-0) ithathe i-M-1 Global ngesiphepho. Ube yimbangi ephezulu ye-middleweight ngokukhipha isihlabani saseRussia se-MMA Alexander Shlemenko (56-11-1) emzuliswaneni wokuvula we M-1 Challenge 93 ngoJuni odlule. Ngokushaywa kwakhe ngomzuliswano wesine ngezibhakela zomunye umRashiya, Frolov (11-1-0), uSilva oshaya ngamandla uyeke kanjani 16 of yakhe 19 wahlula abaphikisi ngesikhathi somsebenzi wakhe ovelele.

UFrolov oneminyaka engu-27 ubudala, owayeneminyaka 9-0-0 emqhudelwaneni we-M-1 ozovikela isicoco sakhe sesibili ngoLwesihlanu olwedlule ebhekene noSilva, ubesayine inkontileka ye-UFC kanti ubehlelelwe ukulwa ngenyanga edlule e-UFC Moscow. Uphoqeleke ukuthi ahoxe ngenxa yokulimala.

Kulo mcimbi obukhona kuphinde kwagilwa omunye umgadli obengakaze ehlulwe, lapho Russian welterweight Sergey Romanov (15-3-0) wanikeza imbangi yakhe yaseSwitzerland, Urs Pablo Ortmann (8-1-0), ukulahlekelwa kwakhe kokuqala, ngendlela yesinqumo esiyimizuliswano emithathu ngazwi linye.

Kazakhstan bantamweight Sergey Morozov (13-4-0) wawina ezintathu eziyindilinga isinqumo ngazwi-linye phezu Bair Shtepin (7-3-0), of Russia.

Middleweight Russian U-Ivan Bogdanov ugcine irekhodi lakhe lokungahlulwa, Ukuthuthukisa 6-0-0, lapho eshaya umFulentshi ngesibhakela Emmanuel “Papou Lele” Idawa (7-3-0) in the round wesithathu.

Welterweight Russian Boris Medvedev (4-0-0) wahlala unbeaten, ukukhiya i-Rear Naked Choke kumakhelwane wakubo, UDavid Zakaryan (1-1-0) ukuze uwine ngokuhambisa kobuchwepheshe komzuliswano wokuqala.

On the ikhadi obutholakele, ukushintshwa sekwephuzile Oleg Popov (4-1-0) ubhalise umzuliswano wesibili we-technical knockout omunye waseRussia heavyweight, Yuriy Fedorov (1-1-0, 1 NC), round amabili, kuyilapho isiRashiya engasindi UMagomed Magomedov (12-3-0) kubeka umFulentshi U-Arnaud Kherfallah(5-2-0) ukulala emzuliswaneni wokuvula.

I-French middleweight UJean “Ikhekhe” UPetrick (9-3-0) wenze i-M-1 yokuqala ehlaba umxhwele ngokuhambisa njalo kuyingozi Talekh “I-Azerbaijan Terminator” Nadzafzade (7-3-1) ngokuklinywa kweNyakatho-Ningizimu, futhi U-Ivan Tsygelnik (2-1-0) uwine umdlalo wakhe wesibili we-pro ngomzuliswano wokuqala wokushaywa kobuchwepheshe ngama-punches ngokumelene UMaxim Baruzdin (1-1-0) empini yosondonzima baseRussia.

UDenis Sulimov (3-0-0) akhishwe Iliskhan Merzhoev (2-1-0) emzuliswaneni wokuvula ngezibhakela emdlalweni phakathi kwama-Russian lightweights, Russian engasindi Rizvan Simbagaev (4-1-0) yayimningi kakhulu imbangi yakhe yase-Ukraine, U-Alexey Shanin (2-1-0), omiswe ngezibhakela maphakathi nomzuliswano wesithathu nowokugcina, kanye ne-Russian featherweight uNikita Barkhajov (2-0-0) kuqhunyiswe Agoney Romero (7-5-1), of Spain, kwelinye round.

The 24 abalwi abaqhudelanayo bebemele amazwe ayisishiyagalombili ahlukene: Russia, Brazil, France, Ukraine, Switzerland, Spain, Kazakhstan futhi Azerbaijan.