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Champion Bellator meet with textured Brazilian puncher in Makhachkala.
September 18 domestic promotion FIGHT NIGHTS to conquer Dagestan. The debut show will be held in the organization of the republic's capital Makhachkala at the Sports Palace them. Ali Aliyev, which seats 6,000 spectators. The main event of the evening declared featherweight bout FIGHT NIGHTS Rasul Mirzaev; However, rival "Black Tiger" is not found yet, and therefore, we will discuss the fight later.
Co-Main Event tournament will fight domestic heavyweight champion Vitali Minakova against Bellator barely breaks the norm Division (120 kg) of textured Brazilian puncher Geronimo dos Santos, nicknamed "Mondragon".
Minakov (15-0) last fight held on July 31 tournament in Sochi FIGHT NIGHTS, knocking 20 seconds Polish heavyweight Adam Maciejowski. The reigning Bellator Heavyweight Champion, Vitali returned to the cell after a prolonged downtime (due to injury), and seems to be going as soon as possible to catch up. Before meeting with Maciejewski Minakov won the title by knocking out Alexander Volkov, and confidently defended his belt in pyatiraundovoy battle with dangerous UFC veteran Cheick Congo.
Dos Santos (36-15) recently had a series of 13 consecutive victories, but in the penultimate battle lost by KO Rodrigo Oliveira. After that, "Mondragon" fought on the Brazilian Alison Vincent, who for 85 seconds to send a "nap" on the canvas.
In 2012, Geronimo, who spent almost all the fights in Brazil, has signed a contract with the UFC. He immediately appointed a fight with Gabriel Gonzaga, but the case never came - in the blood, "Mondragon" was discovered hepatitis virus B. Two years later, dos Santos, who was the Nevada Athletic Commission has not admitted to the fighting and asked to dismiss him from the organization . In the words of "Mondragon", he fully recovered from hepatitis, but his immune system was at an unacceptably low level, which prevented him to undergo a medical examination in the United States.
As is the case with health dos Santos now? ValeTudo.ru asked this question general producer FIGHT NIGHTS Kamil Gadzhiev:
"Until the end of the week," Mondragon "pass a medical examination and provide us with all necessary documents. We will carefully study and if his health is okay - he poderetsya Vitali Minakova. If not - of course, we will remove it from the battlefield, and we will look for a replacement."
Note that the tournament will also perform Russian veteran of mixed martial arts and our forumchanin Vener Galiev (25-8), unbeaten heavyweight prospect Sergey Pavlovich (4-0) having vinstrik of 7 wins Dagestan striker Ahmed Aliyev (10-3) and other great fighters.
The tournament will be shown on September 18 live on the TV channel "Russia-2".
