M-1 Challenge Update
The main person responsible for arranging M-1 Challenge events
overall is Vadim Finkel-stein. Bertrand Amoussou will put on
the show in France while Apy Echteld will be responsi-ble for Dutch
M-1 Challenge events and Shinoda Sotaro will arrange the shows on
the Japa-nese soil.
12 tournaments are scheduled to take place in 2008. The teams competing in M-1 Challenge are comprised of young aspiring and promising fighters from 10 countries: Japan, Korea, Russia, USA, Brazil, Finland, Holland, France, Germany, Poland
The rules for M-1 Challenge:
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 review of Russia vs France bouts + photos On March, 2 Dutch Topsportcentrum in Almere experienced the first ever M-1 Challenge show when Russia (represented by Red Devil) took on France.
Mikhail Malyutin vs Bendy Casimir
First round was all parter and wrestling. Frenchman caught Mikhail in a hold and tried to ap-ply guillotine. Russian could avoid the critical situation and end up dominating Bendy. The rest of the round saw the volatile domination from both figters. In the round 2 the hard strug-gle resumed. Bendy switched from one submission attempt to another still with no success. Mikhail skillfully escaped all of them and answered with blows in parter. The fight finished and the judges gave the split decision to Bendy.
Erik Oganov (Pictures) vs Farouk Lakebir
Fighting the whole bout on the ground French representative demonstrated that his back-ground in wrestling was superior. The judges agreed giving the unanimous decision victory to Mohamed.
Dmitry Samoilov vs Karl Amoussou (Pictures)
The fight started with an instant attack by Karl but Dmitry handled this rush pretty well taking his opponent to the horizontal dimension. Referee halted the bout immediately as it was too close to the ropes. Replacing the competitors in the center of the ring took much more time than one would expect as the referee seemd to forget the initial position of the fighters. The second when the bout was resumed both fighters broke the hold of each other and got to the feet. Dmitry punched his adversary but Karl returned the favor with the devastating highkick while standing up. He managed to deliver a couple blows to the head of unconscious Rus-sian before the referee decided to intervene.
Mikhail Zayats vs Christophe Daffreville
This was the most exciting and dynamic bout. The competitors punched each other while standing constantly aiming for a takedown where attack wouldn't stop even for a second and every submission attempt got nullified by excellent ground defense. However Red Devil's own was more active and seemed to be the first number during that encounter while the French-man was in defensive mode giving Mikhail run for his money though. By the end of the bout the judges even comprised of two Frenchmen had no doubt as for who'd come out with a W. Unanimous decision victory for Mikhail Zayats.
Kirill Sidelnikov vs Martin Soltisyk
The huge Martin rushed into the battle not paying any attention to the Kirill's hand stretched to greet his opponent. Aiming for the KO with hulk punches Martin initially pressed the action. Kirill correctly avoided his aggression, breaking the distance and delivering more accurate strikes and several knees. Couple minutes later it was Russian dictating the pace of the fight. So the logical conclusion of the confrontation was right hook courtesy of Kirill bringing KO loss to the Frenchman's record.
Photos can be found here:
http://www.m1mixfight.com/info/overviews/2008/3/5/M-1-Challenge-Russia-France/photos/
Here you can watch the highlights of Russia vs France bouts:
http://www.m1mixfight.com/multimedia/video/category/trailers/2008/3/url/
By the way Fedor held the seminar in Holland the day prior to the inaugural M-1 Challenge show. The seminar was arranged by M-1 Global on the threshold of the inaugural M-1 Challenge show. Fedor demonstrated the parter game and submission and choke defense. Hegot as-sistance of his trainer Vladimir Voronov, Gilbert Yvel (Pictures), Gegard Mousasi (Pictures). Additionally, Fedor showed some technique on the likes of Ernesto Hoost (Pictures), Remy Bonjasky and Peter Aerts (Pictures). Pho-tos are below:
http://www.m1mixfight.com/news/2008/3/4/seminar/photos/
The second M-1 Challenge show will be held in Saint Petersburg, Rus-sia April,3. The teams competing will be from Russia, Japan and Europe. Moreover 3 superfights are scheduled to toka place as well. Think Alexander Emelianenko, Roman Zentsov (Pictures) and Amar Suloev (Pictures). In total there are 4 M-1 Challenge events planned for Europe, 4 for Russia and 4 of them will touch the Japanese and North American soil.
The concept of M-1 Challenge:
Each team cosists of 5 fighters in different weight categories fighting for the right to call their team the strongest. The fighters showing the outstanding results will earn the right to partici-pate in the M-1 Global events. Additionally, several superfights will also take place during every M-1 Challenge event. The filming will be in the hands of renowned professionals from the US and Japan. The whole organization will be taken care of by directors whose main goal is to create an unfor-gettable atmosphere that will long be remembered. Further video, foto, interviews and other information can be found on this site.
Preliminary fightcard for tournament 03.04.2008 raiting fights
1 TBA VS TBA
2 TBA VS TBA
Main fights
Team Finland vs Team Korea
3 Niko Puhakka (Pictures) Finland VS Korea Kim Jongman 70,0
4 Janne Tulirinta (Pictures) Finland VS Korea Lee Yonghoon 76,0
5 Lucio Linhares (Pictures) Finland VS Korea Lim Hyungyu 84,0
6 Toni Valtonen Finland VS Korea Choi Seunghyun 93,0
7 Jarno Nurminen Finland VS Korea Kim Jihoon + 93,0
Team Russia vs Team Japan
8 Yuri Ivlev Russia VS Japan Nakamura Daisuke 70,0
9 Islam Karimov Russia VS Japan Hamamura Ken 76,0
10 Ansar Chalangov (Pictures) Russia VS Japan Watanabe Yuta 84,0
11 Besike Gerinava Russia VS Japan Sakuragi Yuji 93,0
12 Ahmed Sultanov Russia VS Japan Fujii Katsuhisa + 93,0
superfights
13 Amar Suloev (Pictures) Russia VS Jacek Buczko Poland 84,0
14 Roman Zentsov (Pictures) Russia VS Junior «Cigano» dos Santos Brazil + 93,0
15 Aleksandr Emelyanenko Russia VS Fabio Maldonado (Pictures) Brazil + 93,0
12 tournaments are scheduled to take place in 2008. The teams competing in M-1 Challenge are comprised of young aspiring and promising fighters from 10 countries: Japan, Korea, Russia, USA, Brazil, Finland, Holland, France, Germany, Poland
The rules for M-1 Challenge:
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 review of Russia vs France bouts + photos On March, 2 Dutch Topsportcentrum in Almere experienced the first ever M-1 Challenge show when Russia (represented by Red Devil) took on France.
Mikhail Malyutin vs Bendy Casimir
First round was all parter and wrestling. Frenchman caught Mikhail in a hold and tried to ap-ply guillotine. Russian could avoid the critical situation and end up dominating Bendy. The rest of the round saw the volatile domination from both figters. In the round 2 the hard strug-gle resumed. Bendy switched from one submission attempt to another still with no success. Mikhail skillfully escaped all of them and answered with blows in parter. The fight finished and the judges gave the split decision to Bendy.
Erik Oganov (Pictures) vs Farouk Lakebir
Fighting the whole bout on the ground French representative demonstrated that his back-ground in wrestling was superior. The judges agreed giving the unanimous decision victory to Mohamed.
Dmitry Samoilov vs Karl Amoussou (Pictures)
The fight started with an instant attack by Karl but Dmitry handled this rush pretty well taking his opponent to the horizontal dimension. Referee halted the bout immediately as it was too close to the ropes. Replacing the competitors in the center of the ring took much more time than one would expect as the referee seemd to forget the initial position of the fighters. The second when the bout was resumed both fighters broke the hold of each other and got to the feet. Dmitry punched his adversary but Karl returned the favor with the devastating highkick while standing up. He managed to deliver a couple blows to the head of unconscious Rus-sian before the referee decided to intervene.
Mikhail Zayats vs Christophe Daffreville
This was the most exciting and dynamic bout. The competitors punched each other while standing constantly aiming for a takedown where attack wouldn't stop even for a second and every submission attempt got nullified by excellent ground defense. However Red Devil's own was more active and seemed to be the first number during that encounter while the French-man was in defensive mode giving Mikhail run for his money though. By the end of the bout the judges even comprised of two Frenchmen had no doubt as for who'd come out with a W. Unanimous decision victory for Mikhail Zayats.
Kirill Sidelnikov vs Martin Soltisyk
The huge Martin rushed into the battle not paying any attention to the Kirill's hand stretched to greet his opponent. Aiming for the KO with hulk punches Martin initially pressed the action. Kirill correctly avoided his aggression, breaking the distance and delivering more accurate strikes and several knees. Couple minutes later it was Russian dictating the pace of the fight. So the logical conclusion of the confrontation was right hook courtesy of Kirill bringing KO loss to the Frenchman's record.
Photos can be found here:
http://www.m1mixfight.com/info/overviews/2008/3/5/M-1-Challenge-Russia-France/photos/
Here you can watch the highlights of Russia vs France bouts:
http://www.m1mixfight.com/multimedia/video/category/trailers/2008/3/url/
By the way Fedor held the seminar in Holland the day prior to the inaugural M-1 Challenge show. The seminar was arranged by M-1 Global on the threshold of the inaugural M-1 Challenge show. Fedor demonstrated the parter game and submission and choke defense. Hegot as-sistance of his trainer Vladimir Voronov, Gilbert Yvel (Pictures), Gegard Mousasi (Pictures). Additionally, Fedor showed some technique on the likes of Ernesto Hoost (Pictures), Remy Bonjasky and Peter Aerts (Pictures). Pho-tos are below:
http://www.m1mixfight.com/news/2008/3/4/seminar/photos/
The second M-1 Challenge show will be held in Saint Petersburg, Rus-sia April,3. The teams competing will be from Russia, Japan and Europe. Moreover 3 superfights are scheduled to toka place as well. Think Alexander Emelianenko, Roman Zentsov (Pictures) and Amar Suloev (Pictures). In total there are 4 M-1 Challenge events planned for Europe, 4 for Russia and 4 of them will touch the Japanese and North American soil.
The concept of M-1 Challenge:
Each team cosists of 5 fighters in different weight categories fighting for the right to call their team the strongest. The fighters showing the outstanding results will earn the right to partici-pate in the M-1 Global events. Additionally, several superfights will also take place during every M-1 Challenge event. The filming will be in the hands of renowned professionals from the US and Japan. The whole organization will be taken care of by directors whose main goal is to create an unfor-gettable atmosphere that will long be remembered. Further video, foto, interviews and other information can be found on this site.
Preliminary fightcard for tournament 03.04.2008 raiting fights
1 TBA VS TBA
2 TBA VS TBA
Main fights
Team Finland vs Team Korea
3 Niko Puhakka (Pictures) Finland VS Korea Kim Jongman 70,0
4 Janne Tulirinta (Pictures) Finland VS Korea Lee Yonghoon 76,0
5 Lucio Linhares (Pictures) Finland VS Korea Lim Hyungyu 84,0
6 Toni Valtonen Finland VS Korea Choi Seunghyun 93,0
7 Jarno Nurminen Finland VS Korea Kim Jihoon + 93,0
Team Russia vs Team Japan
8 Yuri Ivlev Russia VS Japan Nakamura Daisuke 70,0
9 Islam Karimov Russia VS Japan Hamamura Ken 76,0
10 Ansar Chalangov (Pictures) Russia VS Japan Watanabe Yuta 84,0
11 Besike Gerinava Russia VS Japan Sakuragi Yuji 93,0
12 Ahmed Sultanov Russia VS Japan Fujii Katsuhisa + 93,0
superfights
13 Amar Suloev (Pictures) Russia VS Jacek Buczko Poland 84,0
14 Roman Zentsov (Pictures) Russia VS Junior «Cigano» dos Santos Brazil + 93,0
15 Aleksandr Emelyanenko Russia VS Fabio Maldonado (Pictures) Brazil + 93,0
