| White Trash in Russia to Fight Red Devil For The Belt |
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| Written by Nate Schafer | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Saturday, 26 January 2008 06:21 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
{mosimage} Mikhail Malutin Combining the fight records of MFC M-1 (6-2) and Sherdog (2-3) Malutin sports a MMA record of (7-3). Of Malutin’s ten fights, seven have gone to decision including two majority decisions. He also has two wins via knockout and a triangle choke submission win. He is a Russian Ushu-Sanda Champion and a two-time International Mixfight Tournament Champion. {mosimage} Jon “White Trash” Friedland Jon Friedland is one of only two black belts in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu in Wisconsin. Friedland has an MMA record of (15-3) according to Sherdog and is coming off a first round TKO against Derek Abram at Combat USA: Season’s Beatings last month. Prior to that, he had been on a five-fight win streak until running into a tough Jesse Lennox at Gladiators 47 in October of 2007. Matchup This looks to be a tough matchup for Friedland who will have to deal with a variety of factors in this fight. Friedland normally fights at 170lbs and will have to cut a lot of weight that he normally doesn’t do for fights. How will the cut affect his performance? Jet lag may be a factor, although he left almost a week ago and should be acclimated to any time and environmental changes. The crowd will be unlike anything Friedland has fought in front of. How will the Russian fans take to Friedland’s “White Trash” ring persona and the fact that an American is coming in to attempt to take the belt back to the Neutral Ground Gym in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Lastly, Mikhail Malutin is a tough challenger from a world-class fight camp in Team Red Devil. Like I said earlier, most of Malutin’s fights have gone to decisions and on the other hand, 13 of Friedland’s 15 wins have come in the first round. Will Friedland get a quick submission in the first round? If not, Friedland better be ready for a gut wrenching three round battle if he wants to become the champion and continue to return to Russia to defend the belt. Wisconsin Combat Sports would like to wish Jon Friedland best of luck in his match and hopefully he returns to the States with the belt. Literal line-by-line translation of the poster International Championship Thanks goes out Hanna Rutouskaya for the translation and Luke Summerfield for digging up the information.
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Nate
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... I wonder if that is really a picture of the belt because it looks like Herb Dean and the UFC Octagon in the background of the poster. It would be cool to see a Russian belt hanging up in the gym. |
luke
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... Jon does have the odds stacked against him, but I guess it's a learning experience either way. He goes back to Russia in 4 weeks to have 2 more fights also. Either way I know Jon is having fun!!! |
gswahhab
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... They might be doing a catch weight Jon was talking about only having to cut to 160. Best of luck Jon update us on the result and hopefully we have a nice shiny Russian belt to hang in the gym next week |
luke
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... IM working on getting in touch with him, I don't think he has internet there, that's the problem. He hasn't been on his myspace in a week. |
luke
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... Jon left a message on the phone today, he didn't say whether or not he won, but he didn't sound to enthusiastic. But he said he was healthy and returning home early wednesday Morning. I'll post up something once I find out the details. |
_JC_GUEST_NAME
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... prepare the wall for our belt. wait til you see the video. no internet til now, staying another night in moscow, be home tomorrow (wed) hopefully by 4pm...fill you in then... |
luke
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... just got off the phone with jon, he won by triangle...i guess the guy beat the shitt outta hime before he tapped... ill have pictures and a full interview with jon up by the weekend. |
Steve -TCC
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Congrats Yes, Way to go Jon. That had to be tough going into a hostile place and taking that belt from him. From all of us at Titletown Combat great job and look forward to seeing the new CHAMP!! |
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