{"id":50993,"date":"2015-02-18T21:28:02","date_gmt":"2015-02-19T03:28:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=50993"},"modified":"2015-02-18T21:28:02","modified_gmt":"2015-02-19T03:28:02","slug":"super-weekend-of-mma-kickboxing-action-on-fight-network-breaking-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=50993","title":{"rendered":"Super Weekend of MMA  &#038; Kickboxing Action on Fight Network &#8211; Breaking News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\" http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=50993\" rel=\" http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=50993\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-611 size-full\" style=\"margin-right: 10px;\" src=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/MMA-header11.jpg\" alt=\"MMA header\" width=\"232\" height=\"169\" \/><\/a>A super weekend of mixed-martial-arts and kickboxing action is on tap this weekend on Fight Network, the world&#8217;s premier combat sports network dedicated to 24\/7 coverage, including live airings of M-1 Challenge 55 and KSW 30: Genesis, as well as pre and post-fight coverage of UFC Fight Night 61: Bigfoot vs. Mir.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Denis Smoldarev<\/p>\n<p>M-1 Challenge kicks things off Saturday morning (Feb. 21) at 10 a.m. from Tbilisi, Georgia. The main event pits past M-1 Challenge heavyweight champion Denis Smoldarev (9-1-0), known as the Brock Lesnar of Estonia, against Maro Perak (23-4-1). Former M-1 Challenge heavyweight champion Kenny &#8220;Deuce&#8221; Garner (14-8-0), fighting out Port St. Lucie, Florida, takes on Chechnya prospect Aslambek &#8220;Titan&#8221; Musaev (5-1-0).<\/p>\n<p>Also fighting on M-1 Challenge 55 is 20013 WMMA champion and hometown favorite Nodar Kudukhashvili (7-1-0) vs. American middleweight Luigi &#8220;The Italian Tank&#8221; Fioravanti (25-12-0) and undefeated Ukrainian featherweight contender Pavel Vitruk (12-0-0) vs. Germany&#8217;s Max Coga (10-3-0), as well as unbeaten lightweights Artiom Damkousky (19-0-0), of Belarus, vs. Azerbaijan challenger Heydar Mamedaliyev (7-0-0).<\/p>\n<p>The MMA action continues on Fight Network at 1 p.m. ET with the live airing of KSW 30: Genesis from Posnan, Poland. Welterweights take the spotlight as hometown hero &#8220;The Tasmanian Devil&#8221; Borys Mankowski (16-5-1) faces Russian foe Michail &#8220;The Lonely Wolf&#8221; Tsarev (29-4-0) in the main event. In the co-feature, Rafal Moks (10-6-0) meets Aslambek Saidov (15-4-0) in a battle of Polish fighters.<\/p>\n<p>Saturday night&#8217;s exciting programming on Fight Network continues at 5 p.m. ET with the showing of Ring of Combat 47 from January 24, 2014 in Atlantic City, NJ, featuring American lightweights Chris Wade vs. Pat Defranco and Frankie Perez vs. Mike Santiago.<\/p>\n<p>Fight Network&#8217;s highly acclaimed news shows, Fight News Now: MMA Edition and Fight News Now Extra, respectively, follow at 8:00 and 8:30 p.m. ET.<\/p>\n<p>Final Fight Championship: Futures 1 MMA, from April 1, 2014 in Croatia, commences and 9:00 p.m. ET the furious action concludes with Final Fight Championship: Futures 1 Kickboxing, starting at 11 p.m. ET, from March 2, 2014 in Croatia.<\/p>\n<p>The UFC takes center stage Sunday on Fight Network. A live pre-fight show for UFC Fight Night 61: Bigfoot vs. Mir begins at 5:00 p.m. with a live post-fight show airing at 11:30 p.m. ET with highlights and the live press conference.<\/p>\n<p>Brazilian heavyweight Antonio &#8220;Bigfoot&#8221; Silva (18-6-0) fights at home in the UFC Fight Night 61 main event against former UFC heavyweight champion Frank Mir (16-9-0), fighting out of Las Vegas.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=39299\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/imagez\/rsrad.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A super weekend of mixed-martial-arts and kickboxing action is on tap this weekend on Fight Network, the world&#8217;s premier combat sports network dedicated to 24\/7 coverage, including live airings of M-1 Challenge 55 and KSW 30: Genesis, as well as pre and post-fight coverage of UFC Fight Night 61: Bigfoot vs. Mir.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10374],"tags":[12163],"class_list":["post-50993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mma-2","tag-super-weekend-of-mma-kickboxing-action-on-fight-network-breaking-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50993"}],"version-history":[{"count":-4,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50993\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}