BRAVE CF 74 full fight card unveiled ahead of historic French show

TDT | Manama    

The Daily Tribune – www.newsofbahrain.com

There’s no better time for French MMA than the present as BRAVE Combat Federation prepares to touch down in Nantes, France for the first-ever.

On September 7, 22 professional athletes representing 14 nations (France, Brazil, Ukraine, Lithuania, DRC, Argentina, Cuba, Czech Republic, Serbia, Azerbaijan, Hungary, and Senegal) will descend upon France to compete on the most-global MMA stage as the world watches how history unfolds at BRAVE CF 74.

BRAVE Combat Federation, the fastest-growing MMA promotion in the world, will again be the most travelled organization in mixed martial arts next month.

BRAVE CF 74 - in association with leading French organization Hexagone MMA - will make France the 29th country to host a BRAVE CF show in less than seven years of operations – an absolute record in the MMA industry.

The main event of the night will see former BRAVE CF Lightweight champion and Brazil’s Lucas Mar-tins chase his dream of reclaiming the 155-pound title when he meets hometown hero and submis-sion specialist Ylies Djiroun - who aims to shake up the division and stamp down his authority as the future of BRAVE CF and the new contender for Abdisalam Kubanychbek’s undisputed title.

In the co-main event, it will be a matter of “someone’s 0 has got to go” when France’s fast-rising star and former pound-for-pound number one amateur champion Axel Sola meets Ukraine’s four-time Combat Sambo World Champion Vladyslav Rudniev in another intriguing Lightweight fight that could help shape the glamorous division.

In the third and final Heavyweight bout of the night, France’s Salim El Oussaidi will put his six-fight unbeaten streak on the line in his BRAVE CF debut when he competes against the Lithuanian wrecking ball and knockout artist Pavel “The Experiment” Dailidko for honors in the “Big Boy” division.

Opening up the main card will be an explosive Super Welterweight match-up as DRC’s viral star Eliezer ‘’King Kong’’ Kubanza steps into the BRAVE CF cage for the second time to fight France’s Levy Carriel.

On the Hexagone MMA 11 preliminary card, fans can look forward to six mouth-watering bouts, including a Middleweight Championship fight as France’s Laid Zerhouni faces Brazil’s Alessandro Macedo for the Hexagone MMA 185-pound belt.

BRAVE Combat Federation prides itself on producing the world’s best fighters, but the brand also aims to unearth future talent, and with that said, the BRAVE CF 74 fight card will also host three AEF Championship amateur fights.