The second edition of the M-1 Selection is scheduled for Sunday, April 19 in Russia. The event will commence at 8 p.m. local St. Petersburg, Russia time (12 noon ET/9 a.m. PT) and will be available via a free, live stream.
The M-1 Selection is the newest fight series brought to you by M-1 Global and features 10 of the top gyms in Russia competing in a season long head-to-head series with the winner earning the right to represent Russia in the 2010 M-1 Challenge.
The first edition of M-1 Selection debuted on Friday, March 13 and featured Red Devil defeating Anapa by a score of 4-1 and Team Dagestan besting Action Force by a 4-1 margin. A total of 20,000 viewers watched the live stream of the event.
This time around the M-1 Selection will feature a total of six teams and 30 fighters. An additional “rating” fight will also open the show. The complete lineup featuring head-to-head lineups between Team Perm vs. Team Sochi, Action Force vs. Team Nizniy Novgorod, and Team Rusfighters vs. Team Legion is as follows:
Rating Fight -
1. Alexei Nazarov vs. TBA
Team Perm vs. Team Sochi -
2. Lightweight (70 kg): Ivan Lapin (Team Perm) vs. Magomed Magomedov (Team Sochi)
3. Welterweight (76 kg): Kirill Simencov (Team Perm) vs. Bislan Elteshev (Team Sochi)
4. Middleweight (84 kg): Anatoliy Lavrov (Team Perm) vs. Agop Topchyan (Team Sochi)
5. Light Heavyweight (93 kg): Aleksander Gordilov (Team Perm) vs. Rasul Magomedov (Team Sochi)
6. Heavyweight (+93 kg): Eugeniy Avdeev (Team Perm) vs. Telman Sherifov (Team Sochi)
Team Action Force vs. Team Nizniy Novgorod -
7. Lightweight (70 kg): Vugar Bahshiev (Action Force) vs. Maxim Kupcov (Nizniy Novgorod)
8. Welterweight (76 kg): Bagavdin Gajimuradov (Action Force) vs. Valeriy Varankin (Nizniy Novgorod)
9. Middleweight (84 kg): Artur Guseinov (Action Force) vs. Alexei Gagarin (Nizniy Novgorod)
10. Light Heavyweight (93 kg): Aleksander Grebenkin (Action Force) vs. Vyacheslav Vasilevskiy (Nizniy Novgorod)
11. Heavyweight (+93 kg): Jeihun Abylov (Action Force) vs. Maxim Novoselov Vasilevskiy (Nizniy Novgorod)
Team Rusfighters vs. Team Legion -
12. Lightweight (70 kg): Akop Stepanyan (Rusfighters) vs. Zagalav Mahachev (Legion)
13. Welterweight (76 kg): Sergey Bal (Rusfighters) vs. Sergei Verdesh (Legion)
14. Middleweight (84 kg): Murat Magomedov (Rusfighters) vs. Ruslan Hashanov (Legion)
15. Light Heavyweight (93 kg): Dmitry Pashinin (Rusfighters) vs. Gajimurad Omarov (Legion)
16. Heavyweight (+93 kg): Andrey Chagin (Rusfighters) vs. Bogdan Hmelnitskiy (Legion)
