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He was one of the first to create a bright and colorful image of a fighter who can beautifully go into battle and arrange a spectacular battle. A young and at the same time very technical athlete, master of sports in four types of martial arts at once, he understood what the viewer needed 10 years ago, and gave them not only fights, but also a show. This fighter began performing at M-1 tournaments in 2004 and was known for many years under the name of Sultan Tikhaev. Starting in 2007, he left M-1 and had many victorious fights in various organizations, after which he returned to the M-1 Global tournaments in 2011 as a real star of Russian MMA. And even then he was known as Alexander Yakovlev, nicknamed Bad Boy. In 2014, he will sign a contract with the UFC, and to date he has already 9 fights in the Octagon.Today we will tell you about the M-1 Challenge 25 tournament, where Alexander was opposed by an equally colorful and daring fighter. Christian Eckerlin was the champion of the German organization GMC, the winner of several boxing tournaments and did not know the bitterness of defeat in the professional arena. At that time, he had 6 early victories in 6 fights on his account and Christian was considered the main European prospect in welterweight, who was ready to triumphantly break into the Russian ring. By the way, very soon Christian will be performing at the Bellator tournament in Moscow, the very one where Fedor Emelianenko will fight Timothy Johnson.