December 11 in Moscow in the arena concert hall "Russia" tournament will be held FIGHT NIGHTS "BATTLE 20", which will be the main event bout at heavyweight between Russian Vitaly Minakova and American Josh Copeland.
Minakov (16-0) after the first (and so far only) Bellator title defense against Cheick Kongo in April 2014, it disappeared from the radar more than a year. Appear regularly rumors that pursue a career Vitaly prevent health problems or tucked opportunity to make a political career in his native Bryansk. However, this summer Minakov returned to MMA, but continued performing at the home tournament FIGHT NIGHTS, while remaining on the contract with the American promotion. Over the last six months champion he wrote in his record early victories over Adam Maciejewski and Geronimo Dos Santos, who excelled in the head.
Copeland (9-2) crossed the threshold of the Octagon in 2014, at the time having a perfect credit record prospectus of nine straight wins and a reputation for clumsy and awkward finisher, who managed to lead the championship belt at the Resurrection Fighting Alliance unbeaten Jan Jorgensen. But the transition to the big leagues Josh went wrong from the start. In his debut match its limited arsenal was a gift for Ruslan Magomedov, shoot provincial native of Denver on points, then its rate of decline has strengthened Josh Rosholt, who apply for "Teddy" first career TKO.
In this short chapter in the career of Copeland called "As I have tried to conquer the UFC" ended and a new, not less inriguyuschaya and promising considerable dividends in the event of success. In which, however, to believe with great difficulty.
Preheat the audience to fight the big guys, to be featherweight Rasul Mirzaev. "Black Tiger" will meet with Ilya Kurzanovym acting in FN with the result of 3-1, the second most important event of the evening.
Kurzanov (9-4) won unconditional Jerome Buisson and Sultan Akayev in recent fights. The defeat spoiled Statistics Kostroma in the tournament last year struck Ilya Movlid Khaibulaev, snatched victory in a close fight by split decision.
Mirzaev (13-0) in September, the sharpest stop felling experienced "collective farmer with a heavy blow" Kevin Crum, before forcing it to give up and knocking Ronnie Gomez Sebastian Romanowski.
Weighing Ceremony
Card tournament (in order of performance fighters):
1. MMA / 84 kg / Rashid Abdurakhmanov - Alexander Markosyan
2. MMA / 95 kg / Dmitry Minakov - Alexey Sidorenko
3. MMA / 61.2 kg / Rook Engibaryan - Kanat Dosmagombetov
4. MMA / 77.1 kg / Dmitry Bikram - Vladimir Tyurin
5. MMA / 65.8 kg / Timur Nagibin - Roman Silagadze
6. MMA / 61 kg / Sharamazan Chupanov - Tomasz Dec
7. MMA / 84 kg / Aleksey Yefremov - Paul Katrunov
8. MMA / 84 kg / Khalid Murtazaliyev - Sergey Gubin
9. MMA / 80 kg / Alexei Ivanov - Askar Mozharov
10. MMA / 84 kg / Ayub Gimbatov - Artem Frolov
11. K-1 / 3h2,5 / Sergey Badyuk - Igor Ryazantsev
12. MMA / 73.5 kg / David Khachatryan - Ahmed Aliyev
13. MMA / 93 kg / Sergei Pavlovich - Ruben Wolf
14. MMA / 65.8 kg / Rasul Mirzaev - Ilya Kurzanov
15. MMA / 93 kg / Vitaly Minakov - Josh Copeland