{"id":72939,"date":"2018-06-15T20:36:43","date_gmt":"2018-06-16T01:36:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=72939"},"modified":"2018-06-15T20:37:10","modified_gmt":"2018-06-16T01:37:10","slug":"damir-ismagulov-beats-artem-damkovsky-to-retain-his-m-1-lightweight-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=72939","title":{"rendered":"Damir Ismagulov Beats Artem Damkovsky to Retain his M-1 Lightweight Title"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\"\"<\/a>M-1 Challenge lightweight champion Damir Ismagulov defeated the original title-holder in their weight class, Artem Damkowsky, to retain his title in this evening’s M-1 Challenge 94: Battle in the Heart of the Continent main event in Orenburg, Russia.<\/p>\n

Ismagulov (16-2-0), fighting out of Russian, won by way of a first-round technical knockout when the referee stopped the fight due to an injury suffered by Damkowsky (22-10-0), of Belarus.<\/p>\n

In the co-featured event, Russian lightweight prospect Roman Bogatov kept his undefeated pro record intact (6-0), in addition to graduating to contender, when he upset former M-1 Challenge title challenger Raul Tutarauli (18-5-0), of Georgia.<\/p>\n

Russian middleweight Valery “The Russian Hammer” Myasnikov (13-1-1) won a majority decision over his countryman, Mikhail Ragozin (11-4-0), Russian welterweight Maksim Grabovich (8-5-0) took a unanimous decision from Finland’s Juho Valamaa (15-5-0), and Brazilian lightweight Rubenilton “Rubinho” Pereira (20-5-0) took care of previously unbeaten Baktybek Uku Oktom (4-1-0), of Kyrgyzstan, when the latter’s corner halted the action after one round.<\/p>\n

On the preliminary card, Brazilian heavyweight Marcus “Montanha” Vinicius Lopes (13-6-0) and Russian Asioya Kluytiova (1-0-0) both used ground-and-pound attacks to win their matches, respectively, against Russian Maksin Yakobyuk (2-1-0) in the second found and Zejna “Sei” Krantic (0-2-0) in the third round of a rare M-1 female fight.
\nRussian flyweight Kirill “Forma” Fomenkov (4-1-0) used a rear naked choke to submit Bulgarian Dimirar Kostov (9-6-0) in the opening round, as did French featherweight Soiksavanh “Yoda” Khampasath (11-9-1) versus Gegham Vardanyan (4-1-0), of Armenia.<\/p>\n

Russian middleweight Vladimir Trusov (2-0-0) won a unanimous decision over Leonardo “Pitbull” Sinis (8-3-1), of Greece.<\/p>\n

MAIN CARD<\/p>\n

MAIN EVENT – M-1 CHALLENGE LIGHTWEIGHT CHAMPIONSHIP
\nDamir Ismagulov (16-2-0, M-1: 10-1-0), Champion, Russia
\nWTKO1 (referee stoppage due to injury \/ 3:53)
\nArtem Damkovsky (22-11-0, M-1: 13-8-0), Belarus
\n(Ismagulov retained M-1 Challenge lightweight title)<\/p>\n

CO-FEATURE – LIGHTWEIGHTS
\nRoman Bogatov (6-0-0, M-1: 5-0-0), Russia
\nWSUB2 (von flue choke \/ 3:05)
\nRaul Tutarauli (18-5-0, M-1: 6–0), Georgia<\/p>\n

MIDDLEWEIGHTS
\nValery Myasnikov (13-1-1, M-1: 4-1-2), Russia
\nWDEC3
\nMikhail Ragozin (11-4-0, M-1: 3-2-0), Russia<\/p>\n

LIGHTWEIGHTS
\nRubenilton “Rubinho” Pereira (20-5-0, M-1: 4-2-0), Brazil
\nWTKO1 (corner stoppage \/ 5:00)
\nBaktybek Ulu Oktom (4-1-0, M-1: 0-1-0), Kyrgyzstan<\/p>\n

WELTERWEIGHTS
\nJuho Valamaa (15-4-0, M-1: 1-0-0), Finland<\/p>\n

Maksim Grabovich (7-5-0, M-1: 4-3-0), Russia<\/p>\n

PRELIMINARY CARD<\/p>\n

HEAVYWEIGHTS
\nMarcus Vinicius Lopes (13-6-0, M-1: 32-1-0), Brazil
\nWTKO2 (ground-and-pound stoppage \/ 4:54_
\nMaksim Yakobyuk (2-1-0, M-1: 2-1-0-), Russia<\/p>\n

MIDDLEWEIGHTS
\nVladimir Trusov (2-0-0, M-1: 2-0-0), Russia
\nWDEC3
\nLeonardo Sinis (8-3-1, M-1: 0-1-0), Greece<\/p>\n

FEATHERWEIGHTS
\nSouksavanh Khampasath (10-9-1, M-1: 0-0-0), France
\nWSUB1 (rear naked choke \/ 3:08)
\nGegham Vardanyan (4-0-0, M-1: 0-0-0), Armenia<\/p>\n

FLYWEIGHTS
\nKirill Fomenkov (4-1-0, M-1: 1-0-0), Russia
\nWSUB1 (rear naked choke \/ 315)
\nDimirar Kostov (9-6-0, M-1: 0-2-0), Bulgaria<\/p>\n

FEMALE CATCHWEIGHT
\nAsiya Kluytova (1-0-0, M-1: 12-0-0), Russia
\nWTKO3 (ground-and-ground stoppage \/ 4:22)
\nZeina “Sei” Krantic (0-2-0, M-1: 0-1-0), Spain<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[AdSense-A] M-1 Challenge lightweight champion Damir Ismagulov defeated the original title-holder in their weight class, Artem Damkowsky, to retain his title in this evening’s M-1 Challenge 94: Battle in the Heart of the Continent main event in Orenburg, Russia. Ismagulov (16-2-0), fighting out of Russian, won by way of a first-round technical knockout when the […]<\/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":[18332],"class_list":["post-72939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mma-2","tag-damir-ismagulov-beats-artem-damkovsky-to-retain-his-m-1-lightweight-title"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72939","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=72939"}],"version-history":[{"count":-2,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72939\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}