Thursday, February 14, 2008

First M-1 Global Challenge event

M1mixfight.com published a new information about the next M-1 Global Challenge event. The first event is scheduled to take place in Holland (Topsportcentrum in Almere) already on March 2nd. The event will have four teams (Russia, France, Holland, Germany) with one fighter in each weight class will be competing against an athlete from another country.

M-1 Global is launching a new project - M-1 Challenge that will show the best teams all over the world battle it out against each each other. The events will take place in different countries. Each team will consist of 5 MMA-fighters competing in the following weight categories: 70kg (154,3lb), 76kg (167,6lb), 84kg (185,2lb), 93kg (205lb), +93kg (+205lb)

Teams

Based on the information from the Dutch MMA sites the teams (and their respective trainers) from the following countries will be represented by:
  • Russia - Fedor Emelianenko
  • Finland - Petteri Maunu
  • Spain - Alexandro Iglesias
  • Germany - Human Niklasmak
  • Poland - Maciej Kawulski
  • Skandinavia - Marco Leistens
  • France - Bertrand Amoussou
  • Holland will be represented by 2 teams under Remco Pardoel and Bob Schrijber.

Muay Thai

Anuwat Kaewsamrit vs TBA
Saenchai Sor Kingstar vs Rachid Bellaini
Samranchai Penang vs Menno Dijkstra
Andy Souwer vs Yodsaenklai Fairtex
Germaine de Randamie vs Maria Verheijen
Ali Gunyar vs Farid Villaume

MMA

M-1 Team Challenge Russia (Red Devil Sports Club) vs France (Team Amossou)

-70kg Mikhail Malutin - Bendy Casimir
-76kg Erik Oganov - Mohamed Khacha
-84kg Dmitri Samoilov - Karl Amassou
-93kg Mikhail Zayats - Christophe Daffreville
+93 Kirill Sidelnikov - Martin Soltisyk

M-1 Team Challenge Holland vs Germany

-65kg: Jordy Peute vs Robert Scott Westermann
-73kg: Romano de los Reyes vs Franco de Leonardis
-83kg: Jason Jones vs Daniel Weichel
-93kg: Gegard Mousasi vs Jacoub Ünül
+93kg: Jessie Gibbs vs Thorsten Kronz

MMA Single Bouts

Brian Lo-A-Njoe vs Sergey Bytchkov
Dave Dalgliesh vs Kamil Uygun
Oktay Karatas vs Furdjel de Windt

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