On January 24 in St. Petersburg in the press center of SC "Yubileyny" there took place a press conference and a ceremony of official weighing of participants of tournament "the Colosseum. New history-II".
The forthcoming fight of Alexander Emelyanenko and his rival, the young fighter from club "Oplot" Dmitry Sosnovsky was the main subject of a press conference. According to the mentor Dmitry, Alexey Oleynik, his ward is in an ideal moral and physical form and is ready to win a victory. Dmitry confirmed this information, having told about the preparation and last collecting in Thailand. His rival Alexander Emelyanenko came to a press conference with the daughter Polina who too didn't remain unattended journalists. Alexander, as well as his opponent, I intend to show good fight and to please all admirers of the mixed single combats. At conference also spoke the president of the promotion company "Kolizey" Oleg Rayevsky who has told about by what criteria it selected fighters, the leader of tournament Sergey Rost, a ring-anonser Alexander Zagorski.
Right after a press conference there took place an official ceremony of weighing before tournament at which all fighters kept within the weight categories.
Results of weighing:
Rating fights:
Saulis Bukkus – 65,75 kg. – Ilya Ovechkin – 65,35 kg.
Konstantin Zabavin – 83,95 kg. – Artem Kazbanov – 83,75 kg.
Mazvidas Piyeza – 63,75 kg. – Vasily Zubkov – 83,9 kg.
Vitalis Melyikovs – 63,75 – Mikhail Korobkov – 64,95
Igor Kudritsky – 82,9 kg. – Sergey "the Street Fayter" Romanov – 84,7 kg.
The Grand Prix in light-middleweight weight:
Igor Makoyedov – 74,05 kg. – Sergey Faley – 77,5 kg.
Egor Golubtsov – 76,85 kg. – Dmitry Berezin – 77,1 kg.
Rafaê Blashuta – 77,25 kg. – Ruslan Zhemukhov – 77,95 kg.
Eduard "Lion's Heart" Vartanyan – 77 kg. – Benjamin Brins's "Hooligan" – 77,35 kg.
Main fight of evening:
Dmitry "The evil car" Sosnovsky – 112,5 kg. – Alexander Emelyanenko – 125,4 kg.
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