The main event fo M-1 Challenge 35 on Thursday, November 15, 2012 from St.-Petersburg, Russia is Alexander Emelianenko vs Jeff Monson.
The younger brother of Fedor Emelianenko is a three-time Russian national Combat Sambo champion and three-time world Combat Sambo champion. He has an overall record of 21-5-0 and comes from 4 wins in a row: a submission against Tolegen Akylbekov, two TKO with Tadas Rimkevicius and Ibragim Magomedov and by unanimous decision with Konstantin Gluhov)
Jeff Monson (age 41) is a 2 time winner of the ADCC Submission Wrestling World Championship, and a No Gi Brazilian Jiu Jitsu World Champion. In the last of his 60 fights (46-13-1), he won by a fast north-south choke against Denis Komkin..
In addition to this match, the fans will see four M-1 Challenge title fights, one M-1 Selection final and four spectacular superfights.
Andrei Semenov that supposed to be fighting on that tournament will fight at the next M-1 Challenge show, that will take place on December 8 in Moscow, Russia. His opponent will be tough Italian veteran Michele Verginelli. Also the third battle for the heavyweight title between Kenny Garner and Guram Gugenishvili has been re-scheduled to the tournament in Moscow.
Two more superfights were added to the card of M-1 Challenge 35: Russian featherweight Mikhail Malyutin will try to become the first fighter who will submit French athlete Olivier Pastor. In the other fight, two undefeated featherweight prospects will collide: Pavel Vtiruk from Alexander Nevsky fight club and Ilya Ovechkin from Sparta fight club.
M-1 Challenge 35 fight card:
Alexander Emelianenko vs Jeff Monson
Mario Miranda vs Ramazan Emeev (for M-1 middleweight title)
Rashid Magomedov vs Alexander Yakovlev (for M-1 welterweight title)
Musa Khamanaev vs Mairbek Taisumov (for M-1 lightweight title)
Marat Gafurov vs Vugar Bahshiev (for M-1 featherweight title)
Akhmed Sultanov vs Denis Smoldarev (M-1 Selection heavyweight final)
Mikhail Malyutin vs Olivier Pastor
Artiom Damkovsky vs Ivica Truscek
Ilya Ovechkin vs Pavel Vitruk
Event: M-1 Challenge 35
Date: 2012-11-15
Where: Ice Palace, St Petersburg, Russia
Video M-1 Challenge 35 promo:
