On June 16, 2016, the grand M-1 Challenge 68 tournament took place in St. Petersburg, within which a rematch between Alexander Shlemenko and Vyacheslav Vasilevsky took place. By the way, you can easily find both fights of this great confrontation on our channel. Well, in the co-main fight of the evening, two former Bellator champions met for the M-1 Challenge heavyweight title.
The best Slovak fighter Attila Vey had just returned from overseas to Europe and was looking for new big challenges for himself. He had 29 victories with 6 defeats and two draws, a dozen scalps of top fighters he beat, the title of MMA world champion according to the World Free Fight Association, a victory at the Bellator Grand Prix and the championship belt of this organization.
Alexander Volkov that year also moved from the USA to Russia and decided to perform again in the organization where his glorious military career began - in the M-1 Global company. A few months earlier, he managed to win the M-1 Challenge champion belt in a fight against the Estonian giant Denis Smoldarev. Now it was necessary for Drago to make one defense of this title and, if successful, he received the right to sign a contract with the UFC.
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