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M-1 Grand Prix 2016 Alexander Shlemenko vs. Vyacheslav Vasilevsky To headline M-1 Challenge 64, Feb. 19 e Moscow
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Pavel Vitruk vs. Sergey Morozov M-1 Challenge bantamweight semifinal eliminator Added to M-1 Challenge 64, Feb. 19 e Moscow
(L-R) Sergey Morozov & Pavel Vitruk
ST. PETERSBURG, Russia (January 14, 2016) – Another potentially explosive match has been added to an already top heavy-loaded M-1 Challenge 64, elaliqhutshwa February 19e-Olimpiki Stadium eMoscow, njengoba Pavel Vitruk liba Sergey Morozov in a special M-1 Challenge bantamweight semifinal eliminator.
The M-1 Challenge 64 headliner finds newly M-1 Global-signed Alexander “Drago” Grez (24-6-0, M-1: 8-3-0), of Russia, against powerful Estonian challenger Denis Smoldaraev (11-1-0, M-1: 7-1-0) for the vacant M-1 Challenge heavyweight championship.
In the co-feature, M-1 Inselele iqhawe engasindi Mansour “Tarzan” Barnaoui (12-3-0, M-1: 2-2-0), ukulwa out of Paris, defends his title against Belarussian challengerArtiom Damkovsky (20-9-0, M-1: 10-6-0)
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A native of Ukraine fighting out of St. Petersburg, Vitruk (12-2-0, M-1: 6-2-0) is coming off back-to-back losses to American Lee Morrison by decision at M-1 Challenge 55 futhi Max Coga by third-round decision at M-1 Challenge 58. Representing the famed Alexander Nevsky Club in St. Petersburg, Vitruk has a strong Muay Thai foundation. After fighting exclusively as a featherweight, Vitruk has decided to drop down one weight class and compete as a bantamweight.
Pavel Vitruk (R) displays his effective jab to set-up his other moves
The 26-year-old Morozov (4-0-0, M-1: 2-0-0) is coming off a pair of impressive second-round stoppages via punches over Andy Young at M-1 Challenge 59 futhi Rijitigala Amuat M-1 Challenge 53. The Kazakh is a hot bantamweight prospect who is equally comfortable on his feet or on the ground.
![]() Morozov is shown here ready to unload on his opponent
The winner of Vitruk vs. Morozov will advance to fight the victor from a soon-to-be announced second title eliminator for the vacant M-1 Challenge bantamweight title.
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Mansour “Tarzan” Barnaoui To defend M-1 Challenge lightweight title vs. Artiom Damkovsky
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M-1 Global signs Heavyweight Alexander Volkov Volkov vs. Smoldarev M-1 Challenge heavyweight title fight M-1 Challenge 64, Feb. 19 e Moscow
ST. PETERSBURG, Russia (December 15, 2015) – M-1 Global has announced its signing of Russian heavyweight sensation Alexander “Drago” Grez (24-6-0, M-1: 8-3-0) ukuze isivumelwano asetshenzisiwe okukhethekile.Volkov will battle Denis Smoldarev (11-1-0, M-1: 7-1-0) February 19 for the vacant M-1 Challenge heavyweight championship at M-1 Challenge 64 e Moscow, Russia.
The 27-year-old puncher from Moscow returns to the organization in which he made his professional mixed-martial-arts debut April 19, 2009, needing only 80-seconds to stop Nikolay Pleshokov in the second stage of the M-1 Challenge 2009. Volkov went on to capture top honors in the finals of the M-1 Challenge 2009, ngowakho Ibragim Magomedov for the Russian Team Championships.
The 6′ 7″, 235-pound Volkov fought under the M-1 Global banner for the next two years, highlighted November 20, 2011 by his opening round punch-out of ngaphambi kwe 20,000 fans at M-1 Global: Fedor vs. Monson.
Ngaleso sikhathi, Volkov had won 14 of 17 pro MMA fights and the popular Russian fighter opened 2012 with an impressive decision win over former UFC heavyweight champion Ricco Rodriguez.
Volkov had another victory before heading to the United States in order to test himself in Bellator competition. He won his inaugural Bellator fight against powerful Brett Rogers, by decision at Bellator 75, in the Bellator Season Seven Heavyweight Tournament.
Two Bellator fights later, Volkov had extended his win streak to 10 in a row, improving overall to 19-3-0 via five-round decision over Richard Hale to capture the vacant Bellator Heavyweight Championship, as well as finish first in the Bellator Season Seven Heavyweight Tournament in Hammond, Indiana, USA.
In his first fight of 2013, Volkov lost his Bellator heavyweight title in his first defense, as fellow countryman UVitaly Minakov recorded a first-round knockout in Atlantic City, E-New Jersey, USA.
Nokho, Volkov rebounded with three straight wins in the Bellator Season 10 Wesibhakela Tournament, defeating Bulgarian great Blaygoy Ivanov in the final by way of a second-round rear-naked choke hold. Ivanov is best known, mhlawumbe, for defeating living legend Fedor Emelianenko in the semifinals on his way to winning the 2008 World Sambo Championships.
Feared as one of the most prolific strikers in MMA today, 17 of Volkov’s 24 overall victims to date were knocked out.
![]() Grez (pictured above to left) makes his M-1 Global return against Smoldarev, of Estonia, whose only loss as a professional was to Marcin Tybura (13-1-0, M-1: 7-1-0), who abdicated his M-1 Challenge heavyweight title to reportedly continue his career in the UFC. Tybura made his first successful M-1 Challenge heavyweight title defense November 24, 2014, defeating Smoldarev by third-round submission (binda), at M-1 Challenge 54 e Beijing, China.
![]() The 25-year-old Smoldarev (shown above in the black trunks) has impressive victories against Ante Delia, Maro Perak, Ahmed Sultanov futhi Shaban Ka. Smoldarev is also a physical specimen, emi 6′ 5″ and weighing close to 270 amakhilogremu.
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M-1 Challenge 55: In Memory of Guram Gugenishvili: IMIPHUMELA OFFICIAL
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M-1 Challenge 55: Guram Gugenishvili Memorial Bonisa izisindo OFFICIAL
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IKHADI MAIN
HEAVYWEIGHTS – 3 X 5 Maro SILVER (23-4-1), Croatia, 216 lbs. (98.1 kg) DENIS SMOLDAREV (9-1-0), Estonia, 266 ½ lbs. (121 kg)
HEAVYWEIGHTS – 3 X 5 UKENNY “Deuce” Garner (14-8-0), I-United States, 263 lbs. (119.5 kg) ASLAMBEK “Titan” Masud (5-1-0), EChechnya, 211 lbs. (95.8 kg)
MIDDLEWEIGHTS – 3 X 5 Nodar KUDUKHASHVILI (7-1-0), Georgia, 182 ½ lbs. (82.9 kg) Luigi “The Tank Italian” Fioravanti (25-12-0), I-United States, 184 ½ lbs. (83.9 kg)
FEATHERWEIGHTS – 3 X 5 Pavel VITRUK (12-0-0), Ukraine, 145 lbs. (65.8 kg) MAX COGA (10-3-0), Germany, 144 ½ lbs. (65.5 kg)
HEAVYWEIGHTS – 3 X 5 Levan “Zangrief” Madz (5-0-0), Georgia, 275 lbs. (124.9 kg) Arsenic Abdulkerimov (7-2-0), Russia, 250 lbs. (113.6 kg)
LIGHTWEIGHTS – 3 X 5 Artiom DAMKOVSKY (19-0-0), Belarus, 154 lbs. (70.1 kg) Heydar MAMEDALIYEV (7-0-0), Azerbaijan, 157 lbs. (71.3 kg)
MIDDLEWEIGHTS – 3 X 5 ENOC ukuzixazulula TORRES (15-8-0), Spain * Ibragim TIBILOS (7-2-0), Russia *
IKHADI Preliminary
LIGHTWEIGHTS – 3 X 5 Artur Alien (1-0-0 ), Russia, 153 lbs. (69.7 kg)
FEATHERWEIGHTS – 3 X 5 Shamil ALIBEKOV (1-0-0 ), Russia, 142 ½ lbs. (64.8 kg) AMACEBISO Nizharadze (for DEBUT), Georgia, 142 ½ lbs. (64.8 kg)
HEAVYWEIGHTS LIGHT – 3 X 5 Lukasz Borowski (3-2-0), Poland, 200 ½ lbs. (91.1 kg) Batra AGNAEV (1-0-0), Russia, 204 lbs. (92.6 kg)
MIDDLEWEIGHTS – 3 X 5 Artem Frolov (2-0-0), Russia, 183 ½ lbs. (83.4 kg) Artur ODDILOBEKOV (2-3-0), Tajikistan *
FEATHERWEIGHTS – 3 X 5 KURBANANALI Abdusalamov (3-2-0), Russia, 145 lbs. (65.8 kg) Archil TAZIASHVILI (0-1-0), Georgia, 143 lbs. (65.1 kg)
*Fighters wayengazange kufika okwamanje Tbilisi ngenxa yesimo sezulu esibi
INI: M-1 Challenge 55: Guram Gugenishvili Memorial Show
NINI: Saturday, February 21, 2015 10:00 a.m. (New York City), 6:00 p.m. (Moscow)
LAPHO: Tbilisi, Georgia 1:30
UMGQUGQUZELI: M-1 Global
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Ngempelasonto Super of MMA & Kickboxing Action on Fight Network
| NEW YORK / TORONTO (Feb. 18, 2015) – A super ngempelasonto of exubile-karate-ubuciko kanye Kickboxing action is on kampompi kule mpelasonto on Fight Network, UNdunankulu combat sports network emhlabeni anikezelwe 24/7 Ukusabalala, kuhlanganise airings bukhoma M-1 Challenge 55 futhi NSS 30: Genesis, kanye pre and post-fight izindaba UFC Fight Night 61: Bigfoot vs. Me.
M-1 Challenge kicks things off Saturday ekuseni (Feb. 21) at 10 a.m. kusukela Tbilisi, Georgia. The main mcimbi imigodi ezidlule M-1 Challenge iqhawe sosondonzima Denis Smoldarev (9-1-0), eyaziwa ngokuthi Brock Lesnar of Estonia, ngokumelene Maro Perak (23-4-1). Owabe M-1 Challenge iqhawe sosondonzima Kenny “Deuce” Garner (14-8-0), ukulwa out Port St. Lucie, Florida, takes on Chechnya prospect Aslambek “Titan” Masud (5-1-0).
Futhi ibambene M-1 Challenge 55 kuba 20013 WMMA iqhawe and langakubo intandokazi Nodar Kudukhashvili (7-1-0) vs. Middleweight American Luigi “The Tank Italian” Fioravanti (25-12-0) futhi Ezingakanqotshwa Ukrainian featherweight Olwa Pavel Vitruk (12-0-0) vs. YaseJalimane Max Coga (10-3-0), kanye lightweights unbeaten Artiom Damkousky (19-0-0), of Belarus, vs. Azerbaijan inselele Heydar Mamedaliyev (7-0-0).
Isenzo MMA siyaqhubeka Fight Network at 1 p.m. KANYE kanye angabiki bukhoma of NSS 30: Genesis kusukela Posnan, Poland. Welterweights thatha spotlight njengoba langakubo hero “The Tasmanian Devil” Borys Mankowski (16-5-1) ubhekene nesitha Russian Michail “The Lonely Wolf” Tsarev (29-4-0) kwenzeka main. In the co-feature, Rafal Moks (10-6-0) ihlangana Aslambek Saidov (15-4-0) in a empini lamasosha asePoland.
Saturday izinhlelo ebusuku ethakazelisayo on Fight Network kuqhubeka 5 p.m. KANYE kanye nokubonisa Ring of Combat 47 kusukela ngoJanuwari 24, 2014 e Atlantic City, NJ, featuring lightweights American Chris Wade vs. Futhi Defrance futhi Frankie Perezvs. Mike James.
Fight Network akukhuthazwa kakhulu izindaba imibukiso, Fight News Now: MMA Edition futhiFight News Now Extra, ngokulandelana, ukulandela at 8:00 futhi 8:30 p.m. KANYE.
Final Fight Championship: Futures 1 MMA, kusukela ngo-April 1, 2014 e Croatia, evula futhi 9:00 p.m. KANYE isenzo furious iphetha Final Fight Championship: Futures 1 Kickboxing, ukuqala at 11 p.m. KANYE, kusukela March 2, 2014 e Croatia.
The UFC ithatha isikhungo stage Sunday on Fight Network. A live pre-fight for show UFC Fight Night 61: Bigfoot vs. Me uqala at 5:00 p.m. nge live post-fight show angabiki at11:30 p.m. KANYE kanye avelele kanye press conference bukhoma.
Wesibhakela Brazilian Anthony “Bigfoot” Silva (18-6-0) uyabalwela ekhaya in the UFC Fight Night 61 umcimbi main ngokumelene zangaphambili UFC iqhawe sosondonzima Frank Mir (16-9-0), ukulwa out of Las Vegas.
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M-1 Challenge 55 ikhadi ukubanjwa embondelene; Fioravanti vs.. Kudukhashvili & Vitruk vs. Coga wanezela
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Guram Gugenishvili Memorial Show, Feb. 21 e Tbilisi, Georgia |
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ST. PETERSBURG, Russia (UJan. 21, 2015) – M-1 Global sika 2015 Umcimbi isizini-ukuvulwa, M-1 Challenge 55: Guram Gugenishvili Memorial Show, kancane kancane zibe okujabulisayo, embondelene umcimbi ngoFebhuwari 21 e Tbilisi, Georgia.
The ukulwa zakamuva ukuba kwanezela M-1 Challenge 55, ngokuzinikela inkumbulo lokuqala M-1 Challenge sosondonzima iqhawe, Guran Gugenishvili, kuba ethakazelisayo middleweight clash phakathi umhlaseli American Luigi “The Tank Italian” Fioravanti intandokazi Georgian Nodar Kudukhashvili, kanye Ezingakanqotshwa featherweight ithemba Pavel Vitruk ethatha ecasukile-minded Max Coga.
Evikini eledlule, M-1 Global wamemezela ukulwa ezimbili wesibhakela for M-1 Challenge 55: M-1 esidlule Challenge isihloko inselele Denis Smoldarev (9-1-0, 3 KO / TKO, 4 SUB), of Estonia, vs. Inselele Croatian Maro Perak (23-4-1, 12 KO / TKO, 7 SUB), kanye yangaphambili M-1 Challenge iqhawe sosondonzima Kenny “Deuce” Garner (14-8-0, 7 KO / TKO, 3 SUB), of America, vs. Ithemba Kazakh Aslambek “Titan” Masud (5-1-0, 1 KO / TKO, 2 SUB).
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Fioravanti (25-12-0, 10 KO / TKO, 6 SUB), ukulwa out of Florida, uyeza off of an umxhwele lokuqala round stoppage (punches) of
Ruslan Khaskhanov lokhu esidlule December at
M-1 Challenge 54 & ACB 12. Muva nje usayine inkontileka entsha yokukhangisa nge M-1 Global.
Umsolwa oneminyaka engu-33 ubudala Italian-American wajoyina U.S. Marines emva kokuphothula esikoleni esiphakeme. Waqala ukuqeqeshwa Kickboxing and Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu eCalifornia Iraq ngenkathi isebenza bamasosha. Fioravanti, onesitifiketi yesibili-degree black ibhande Pancrase Pankration, unqobile ezintathu yakhe last amane ukulwa
Kudukhashvili (7-1-0, 2 KO / TKO, 3 SUB) kubhekwa omunye eziqine of isizukulwane esisha Georgian MMA fighters. In 2013, wayinqoba Championships WMMAA, ngowakho iqhawe Russian Shamil Abdulaev emncintiswaneni wamanqamu.
Ngo eziyisishiyagalombili professional MMA elwisana yimanje, Kudukhashvili ilahlekelwe once kuphela, by third-round isinqumo Jamaican kuzalwa- Uriya “Prime Time” Hall, owawina the The Ultimate Fighter 17. Kudukhashvili uzobe ngokwenza kwakhe M-1 DEBUT Global ngokumelene Fioravanti.
The Vitruk oneminyaka engu-24 ubudala (12-0-0, 3 KO / TKO, 2 SUB) , ukulwa out of Ukraine, iyinhlangano ekuphumeni M-1 Challenge star ne ephelele 5-0 irekhodi e M-1 Challenge ukuncintisana dating back to 2013 at M-1 Challenge: Fedor vs. Rizzo. Kubhekwe esinye the best featherweight amathemba in the world MMA namuhla, Vitruk kwaba 2-0 ngonyaka odlule, nokuvimbela a pair of baseBrazil Challengers, Rafael Miranda (KO / TKO1 – punches) at M-1 Challenge 53 futhi Clayton Santos (SUB1 – punches) at M-1 Challenge 46.
Ukuqeqesha out of the odumile Alexander Nevsky Club in St. Petersburg, Russia, Vitruk has zokungcebeleka zakhe ngokuqinile okubekwa M-1 Challenge featherweight iqhawe Ivan Buchinger, ngubani a stablemate Team MMA Spirit of Coga.
A iqhawe engasindi ekhaya Germany, Coga kuyoba ekulweni in wesibili M-1 Challenge umcimbi wakhe elahlekelwe May last by lokuqala round Knockout (kick) to Olwa engasindiMax Divnich at M-1 Challenge 47.
The ukulahlekelwa Divnich kwaphumela isinqumo Team Coga ngaye ukulahla phansi isisindo division ukuba featherweight. In isenzo sakhe sokugcina, Coga bounced emuva obuqinile kokunqoba umxhwele DEBUT yakhe featherweight lokhu November at esidlule FC Fair 2, nokuyeka ngaphambilini Ezingakanqotshwa (5-0-0 ngoba, 4-0-0 Amarekhodi amateur) Gabriel Sobo in the round wesithathu.
Zonke ukulwa kanye fighters angaphansi ushintsho.
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Denis vs Smoldarev. Maro Perak ungeze ku M-1 Challenge 55 ikhadi Feb 21 e Georgia
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