The fight of heavyweights is always a fight of heavyweights, which means that the attention of the audience is provided to it increased. Especially when it comes to the collision of an experienced knockout and a tall young prospect.
On March 10, 2018, in St. Petersburg at the M-1 Arena, an international mixed martial arts tournament M-1 Challenge 89 will be held.
Shortly before that, the world champion in mixed martial arts Zaur Hajibabaev returned to the M-1 Challenge rage after a year and a half break. At the M-1 Challenge 86 Battle of Narts tournament, he sent Nikolay Savilov to a heavy knockout. Zaur is a very talented versatile fighter who knows how to fight well and has a cannon strike.
He was opposed by a two-meter sambo wrestler Anton Vyazigin, nicknamed "The Giant from Cherepovets", who walked confidently through the M-1 Challenge tournaments, crushing three opponents in a row, until he collided with ex-UFC fighter Philip De Vries, to whom he lost by a separate decision of the judges. Now the young heavyweight had to recruit points again in order to make his way to the title fight.