Two future legends of mixed martial arts met each other in the final of the European Championship in fights without rules under the auspices of M-1, which took place on April 9, 2000 in St. Petersburg.
You could watch the semi-final fight of Andrei Arlovski against the Dutchman Michael Thielroy on our channel quite recently. And Roman Zentsov forced Gennady Matsigura to surrender in two minutes.
For the Russian fighter, this was his debut tournament in mixed martial arts, while the Belarusian returned to the action after a fight with Vyacheslav Datsik. Both Roman and Andrei were very young guys and at that time had not yet acquired their formidable fighting nicknames. But both the future Russian Hammer and the future Pitbull were determined to throw a cool fight and take the champion’s belt.

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