Literally a day remains until the debut of Sergei Morozov in the UFC promotion. Therefore, today we will tell you about his last fight, thanks to which Sergey got the right to sign a contract with the American promotion.
On October 19, 2019, in the main battle of the M-1 Challenge 105 tournament, the reigning M-1 Challenge bantamweight champion Sergei Morozov defended his belt in a battle against the unbeaten M-1 Josh Rettinghouse from the USA. They already met in December 2016. And then the fight ended already in the fifth minute of the first round, when Josh made an upset and knocked out Sergey.
So Sergei had a triple motivation in this fight - he defended his belt for the first time, he had to take revenge on his old opponent and he performed in front of his native audience. As for Josh, he was in the Russian promotion with four wins in a row and was going to join the King of The Cage Champion Belt and the M-1 Challenge Champion Belt.