WSOF Announces Global Championship 1 in China
Las Vegas-based MMA promotion World Series of Fighting is going global. The company announced in a press release on Thursday that the WSOF will be taking its talents across the Pacifc and into the land of the Red Dragon to host a massive event under the banner of World Series of Fighting: Global Championship.
Slated for Nov. 21 in Hainan, China, WSOF-GC will be held at the Haikou Arena. Anchoring the event will be “The Ultimate Fighter” Season 7 contestant Jeremy May squaring off against Russian knockout artist Evgeny Erokhin in a heavyweight championship encounter.
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Erokhin has been equally as hot, winning six straight after dropping three in a row. During his current winning streak, Erokhin has knocked everybody out including Ultimate Fighting Championship veterans Jeff Monson, Mike Kyle and Tim Hague.
Also featured on the main card will be a pair of lightweight title qualifiers. UFC veteran Carlo Prater will lock horns with Dylan Fussell in the first bout while M-1 Global vet Khusein Khaliev will meet longtime Shooto, Deep and Pancrase combatant Yoshihiro Koyama in the other.
The two winners will meet on a future WSOF card to determine who will be the promotion’s 155-pund champion.
“This really is what it’s all about,” said Jason Lilly, Vice President of Operations and Matchmaker for WSOF-GC. “We have a classic matchup of two heavyweights that are competing at an incredibly high level, who between them have finished their last 10 fights. On top of that, we have a lightweight championship qualifier with four fighters representing four distinct geographical regions in the world. We don’t want to have a ‘regional’ world champion. We want a ‘global’ world champion, pitting the best athletes from around the world against each other.”
More details regarding as the U.S. telecast and a full undercard will be announced soon.
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