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Title Fight of the Titans
Superior Challenge 8 announces the organization's first light heavyweight title fight. The home fighter and the crane from Rosengard, Ilir Latifi, will test his strength against the merited anarchist, Jeff Monson, on October 6 at Malmö Arena.
The hometown favourite fighter Ilir Latifi, 6-2-0-1, faces his biggest challenge ever when he takes on Jeff Monson, 45-13-0, for Superior Challenge's light heavyweight title. Ilir is one of Scandinavia’s most promising MMA athletes, and he has created a name for himself by his tremendous strength and exciting fighting style. The Albanian Swede has a background in Wrestling, which is quite obvious while watching his fights where he lifts up and "slams" over hundred kilo opponents like rag dolls time after time. He will stand face to faced against his career’s toughest opponent on October 6:th in his hometown Malmö in Sweden.
Jeff Monson got his nickname "The Snowman" during ADCC 2009. He is one of the world's most experienced MMA athletes and is considered one of the sport's foremost grapplers. Despite his aggressive, and muscular appearance, he is well educated and a Psychologist by profession. He is also politically very active and promotes passionately his version of anarchy. Monson has fought the sport's absolute top elite during his 14 years as a pro, and has competed in the world’s largest promotions. He usually competes as heavyweight, and is ranked 36:th in the world rankings.
Some of his merits are: two-time ADCC Gold Medallist, two-time FILA No Gi Gold Medallist, IBJJF Black Belt No Gi Gold Medalist, Black Belt in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, Sports Fight Heavyweight Champion, ISKA (International Sport Karate Association) Heavyweight Champion, Pro Boxing record 2-1-0, Sprawl 'N Brawl Heavyweight Champion, XFC Heavyweight Champion, Strength & Honor Heavyweight Champion, Sengoku veteran, Pride FC veteran, DREAM FC veteran, Strikeforce veteran, UFC veteran.
The America can boast with wins over Roy "Big Country" Nelson, Sergei Kharitonov, Alexey Oleinik, Tony Lopez, Marcio Cruz, Travis Fulton, Ricco Rodriguez, Mark Kerr, Anthony Perosh, and Kazuyuki Fujita. Besides these, he has also fought Chuck Liddell, Forest Griffin, Tim Sylvia, Pedro Rizzo, Josh Barnett, and recently also MMA’s during long time undefeated heavyweight champion, Fedor Emilianenko. The American Top Team fighter went three rounds against Fedor and lost by unanimous decision for about six months ago.
Ilir is the young, hungry fighter who will do everything to show his home crowd what he is capable of, and Jeff is the distinguished, and experienced roughneck, who will never give a young fighter the opportunity to win the title. This is one of the greatest MMA bouts ever to take place in the Nordic countries and will attract international attention to the Swedish MMA market.
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Babak Aghavali, CEO Superior Group International:
- Monsters Vs. Monster, Hulk Vs. Hercules, Clash of the Titans. Let's hope that the cage will hold for these two giant’s enormous strength, when about
240 kg of furious muscles collides at Malmö Arena on October 6th.
We still haven’t seen Ilir’s full potential yet, and on a good day no one can stand in his way. Jeff is an experienced athlete, and he is Ilir’s toughest opponent ever. Just six months ago he fought Fedor Emilianenko for three rounds, which proves how tough this man really is.
This is an incredibly exciting match-up and everyone in the organization are really looking forward to it. This light heavyweight title bout will break the decibel record and raise the roof of Malmö Arena.
Superior Challenge
Superior Entertainment is a Swedish Stockholm based company within
Superior Group International along with Superior Wear, Superior Management and Superior Gear. Superior Challenge is Europe’s most qualitative MMA promotion with the aim to produce high quality and adrenaline-full sports entertainment for MMA fans. The organization has many years of experience in the MMA market, with a broad knowledge of the industry, and is internationally recognized as one of the world's top MMA organizations. Superior Challenge is one of five MMA promotions in the world with top twenty ranked fighters. The first event in 2008 broke record attendance of all MMA events in the Nordic countries and the sixth event broke ones again the record attendance with about 7000 visitors. A total of 7 events have been produced since the start. The last two at Hovet Stockholm Globe Arenas, are estimated to each have had a PR value equivalent to 19 million SEK, only in Sweden. In addition tonationwide TV broadcast at home in Sweden, the TV production of the last event is estimated to have reached out to more than 100 million TV viewers around the world, through broadcast all over North and Central America, throughout Asia and parts of Australia.
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Trailer Superior Challenge 8 - Malmö:
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