The German beast defeated everyone, BUT the fearless Russian fighter came out to fight him!
- Posted by axelle on May 28, 2024
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He was one of the first to create a bright and colorful image of a fighter who can go into battle beautifully and stage a spectacular battle. A young and at the same time very technical athlete, a master of sports in four types of martial arts at once, 10 years ago he understood what the viewer needed and gave them not only fights, but also a show.
This fighter began competing in M-1 tournaments in 2004 and for many years was known under the name Sultan Tikhaev. Since 2007, he left M-1 and had many winning fights in a variety of organizations, after which he returned to the M-1 Global tournaments in 2011 as a real star of Russian MMA. And even then he was known as Alexander Yakovlev, nicknamed Bad Boy.
In 2014, he will sign a contract with the UFC, and to date he has already had 9 fights in the Octagon.
Today we will tell you about the M-1 Challenge 25 tournament, where Alexander faced an equally colorful and daring fighter.
Christian Eckerlin was the champion of the German GMC organi