M-1 Global Challenge press-conference

During the same weekend when the first M-1 Global Challenge event took place, the M-1 Global Challenge press-conference was also organized. They had some bits of information to share.

M-1 Global finally gave a list of countries, which are participating in a team format. As you might imagine, this list was different from both the initial and additional information. As of now, the list of participating countries looks like this:

• Japan
  
• Korea
  
• Russia
  
• USA
  
• Brazil
  
• Finland
  
• Holland
  
• France
  
• Germany
  
• Poland

Some countries (at least Holland) will include more than one team.

12 tournaments are scheduled to take place in 2008 (which means at a pace of at least one event each month).

© m1mixfight.com During the same weekend, the seminar was also arranged. Fedor Emelianenko demonstrated the ground game and submission and choke defense. He got assistance of his trainer Vladimir Voronov as well as Gilbert Yvel (in a picture) and Gegard Mousasi. Additionally Ernesto Hoost, Remy Bonjasky and Peter Aerts were present to be used as a training dummies.

The main person responsible for arranging M-1 Global Challenge events overall is Vadim Finkelstein. Bertrand Amoussou will put the show in France while Apy Echteld will be responsible for Dutch M-1 Challenge events and Shinoda Sotaro will arrange the shows on the Japanese soil.

The rules for M-1 Global Challenge are:

• A bout consists of 2 rounds 5 minutes each and 90 seconds rest between the rounds.
• Knees are allowed while standing. In parter only knees to the body are allowed. It's forbidden to strike a downed opponent while standing.
• Elbow strikes are only allowed to the body and legs.
• During the bout a fighter can get 3 warnings whereafter he'll be disqualified.

The detailed scheme with date, place, participants and brackets will be posted later.