M-1 Challenge 27: Garner vs. Grishin (10/14 on SHO) [GURAM is not coming...again]

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Maxim Grishin vs. Kenny Garner (for interim heavyweight title)
Vinny Magalhaes (c) vs. Mikhail Zayats (for light-heavyweight title)
Eddie Arizmendi vs. Arthur Guseinov
Tom Gallicchio vs. Daniel Madrid
Yasubey Enomoto vs. Josh Thorpe​

 

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Guram not coming...again. :facepalm:

http://mmajunkie.com/news/25595/gri...i-in-showtimes-m-1-challenge-27-headliner.mma

An injury has forced heavyweight champion Guram Gugenishvili (11-0) out of next week's M-1 Challenge 27 headliner.

In his place steps Maxim Grishin (9-5), who now meets Kenny Garner (7-3) for an interim title.

M-1 Challenge 27 takes place Oct. 14 at Grand Canyon University Arena in Phoenix, and the main card airs on Showtime.

According to M-1 officials, Gugenishvili, who was wrapping up his camp at Xtreme Couture in Las Vegas, suffered an elbow injury during a Wednesday training session. After meeting with a physician, he wasn't cleared to fight and is expected to be sidelined four to six weeks.

"This is tremendously unfortunate as it is now the second time this has happened," M-1 Global Director of Operations Evgeni Kogan stated. "No one is more disappointed about the change in circumstances than Guram himself. He was absolutely gutted when breaking the news to us. We hope Guram makes a swift recovery so he can return to action as soon as possible."

Garner was supposed to rematch Gugenishvili, who earned a submission win a year ago in their first meeting. Since the loss, Garner has picked up a pair of knockout victories (and owns five KOs in his seven career victories).

Grishin, who is one of Fedor Emelianenko's training partners at Red Devil Sport Club, is a three-year M-1 vet. He's won five of his past six fights (all via stoppage), and the lone defeat came to Gugenishvili.

In addition to the main-event change, officials announced a pair of fights for the preliminary card. They include lightweights David Morgan vs. Silvester Villereal and welterweights Mike Chavez vs. Joe Martinez.

 

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Can't wait to see Vinny and Yasubey.

 

[Liquidrob]

WTF GURAM, ugh

Vinny! ADCC represent

 

[EmpireWF]

Vinny said in an interview that last year, he was doing a seminar in Russia and Zayats was there and questioned his techniques.

How much on Magalhaes by sub?

 

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[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKv52MApZHw"]Yasubey Enomoto Interview - YouTube[/ame]

 

[EmpireWF]

MAIN CARD (Showtime)
Champ Vinny Magalhaes (204) vs. Mikhail Zayats (205) - for light heavyweight title
Kenny Garner (255) vs. Maxim Grishin (220) - for vacant interim heavyweight title
Arthur Guseinov (185) vs. Eddie Arizmendi (186)
Tom Gallicchio (170) vs. Daniel Madrid (165)
Yasubey Enomoto (168) vs. Josh Thorpe (166)

 

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Comes on in an hour.

 

[Kuzzy Powers]

Guess I got time to throw some write in votes in then?

Champ Vinny Magalhaes (204) vs. Mikhail Zayats (205) - for light heavyweight title
Kenny Garner (255) vs. Maxim Grishin (220) - for vacant interim heavyweight title
Arthur Guseinov (185) vs. Eddie Arizmendi (186)
Tom Gallicchio (170) vs. Daniel Madrid (165)
Yasubey Enomoto (168) vs. Josh Thorpe (166)

 

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Goddamn at all the empty seats. M-1 definitely should have picked a smaller venue.

Not really surprising since M-1 does a shit job at promoting.

 

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:rofl:

This event is going by fast a hell. All three fights so far have all been finished by submission in the first round.

YASUBEY!

 

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2:43 of fight time after three fights tonight. Crazy shit.

 

[EmpireWF]

Hell of a fun show.

3 straight 1st round submissions. Love watching Guseinov fight.

The heavyweight fight was :rofl: worthy. The Russian was tired as fuck but came close with a pair of subs in the 4th round. Gardner should have knocked him out sooner but ended up winning by tapout due to strikes. Some real shady shit with the ring ropes in this one had me lmao.

The main event was nice with the Russian taking Vinny down with leg kicks after 2 rounds. When they were on the ground, Vinny was unable to sink in any subs. Then out of nowhere, Vinny fakes a punch, follows with a head kick that rocks him and leds to the TKO win.


Miletich is awesome on color...still.

Have no clue the quality of the Russians in the big picture but they're fun to watch.

 

[Warner2BruceTD]

That heavyweight fight was a disaster. Gardner is always involved in slopfests, the Russian was gassed beyond belief, the ref was lost, and the timekeeper kept ignoring the refs instructions on the restarts.

Main event was great stuff, and the three jobber fights were quick with good finishes.

The ring has to go. Completely destroys the pace of the fights and leads to sloppy action. I used to like the contrast of ring/cage, but the cage is the way to go.

 

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I though Zayats was going to end up stealing it then out of nowhere Vinny hits the headkick. Great fight.

The heavyweight fight was definitely a shambles. The ref was totally lost. He should have at least taken points from the Russian for flopping to his back, running through the ropes, and taking so long to get up. If Guram doesn't run through Garner again, I will be disappointed.

Also, the whistles were a bad idea.

 

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[EmpireWF]

Also, the whistles were a bad idea.

:lol:

Such a bad idea.

 

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Vinny + Garner = ratings!

M-1 had another strong showing on Showtime, and this past Friday's M-1 Challenge 27 event drew a 0.6 household rating and 185,000 viewers.

The event was the third M-1 Challenge show to air on Showtime. M-1 Challenge 24 drew 189,000 viewers earlier this year, and M-1 Challenge 26 drew 161,000 viewers in July. The three shows now have averaged 178,000 viewers on the premium-cable channel.

By comparison, the Strikeforce Challengers series on Showtime has averaged 207,000 viewers per event in 2011.

M-1 Global struck a broadcast deal with Showtime in January as part of a contract renegotiation with M-1 heavyweight Fedor Emelianenko.

The full M-1 Challenge-Showtime rankings include:
•M-1 Challenge 24 ratings: 189,000 viewers
•M-1 Challenge 26 ratings: 161,000
•M-1 Challenge 27 ratings: 185,000

http://mmajunkie.com/news/25726/m-1...trong-event-draws-185000-showtime-viewers.mma

 

[EmpireWF]

No promotion, I'd guess at least 70% of that number is people flipping around, seeing a fight and sticking with it.