Mikhail Zayats is a Russian mixed martial artist who competes in the Light heavyweigh division. A professional MMA competitor since 2006, Zayats mostly competed in his native Russia, where he is an M-1 Global

M-1 Global

M-1 Global is the mixed martial arts promotion based in Russia - The Netherlands which organizes between 40 and 50 competitions per year...

 veteran.

M-1 Global

Mikhail Zayats defeated powerful Georgian wrestler David Tkeshelashvili by rear-naked choke at 2:26 of the first round.

Mikhail Zayats delivered an impressive beatdown to Frenchman Malik Merad in their light heavyweight contest. He took his opponent down right away and started a methodical ground-and-pound attack, hitting Merad with punches to the head and elbows to the body; he even tried to apply a straight neck crank. Merad made it to the second round, but he was once again quickly put on his back. Zayats trapped his right hand behind the back and finished the fight with a series of unanswered right hands 49 seconds into the round.

Championships and Accomplishments

Mixed Martial Arts

Mixed martial arts

Mixed Martial Arts is a full contact combat sport that allows the use of both striking and grappling techniques, both standing and on the ground, including boxing, wrestling, Brazilian jiu-jitsu, muay Thai, kickboxing, karate, judo and other styles. The roots of modern mixed martial arts can be...

• M-1 Global
  M-1 Global
  M-1 Global is the mixed martial arts promotion based in Russia - The Netherlands which organizes between 40 and 50 competitions per year...
  
  
  • Champion M-1 Challenge 2008

Jujutsu

Jujutsu

Jujutsu , also known as jujitsu, ju-jitsu, or Japanese jiu-jitsu, is a Japanese martial art and a method of close combat for defeating an armed and armored opponent in which one uses no weapon, or only a short weapon....

• Champion of Europe in Jiujitsu

Army hand-to-hand fight

Army hand-to-hand fight

Army hand-to-hand fight — the Russian universal system of training to the protection and attack receptions, united many functional elements from an arsenal of world kinds of the single combats, tested in real fighting activity...

• Champion of Volga-Ural Military District
• Champion of Russian Armed Forces
• Champion of Russia

Sambo

Sambo (martial art)

Sambo is a Russian martial art and combat sport. The word "SAMBO" is an acronym for SAMooborona Bez Oruzhiya, which literally translates as "self-defense without weapons". Sambo is relatively modern since its development began in the early 1920s by the Soviet Red Army to improve their hand to hand...

• Combat Sambo
  • Champion of Russia in Combat Sambo
  • World Champion in Combat Sambo

Mixed martial arts record

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|Loss
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|Vinny Magalhaes

Vinny Magalhães

Vinicius Magalhães , is a Brazilian mixed martial artist. He was a participant in The Ultimate Fighter: Team Nogueira vs. Team Mir. He is the current M-1 Global Light Heavyweight Champion.-Grappling career:...

|TKO (head kick and punches)
|М-1 Challenge XXVII: Garner vs. Grishin
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|align=center|3
|align=center|1:13
|Phoenix, Arizona

Phoenix, Arizona

Phoenix is the capital, and largest city, of the U.S. state of Arizona, as well as the sixth most populated city in the United States. Phoenix is home to 1,445,632 people according to the official 2010 U.S. Census Bureau data...

, United States
| For M-1 Global

M-1 Global

M-1 Global is the mixed martial arts promotion based in Russia - The Netherlands which organizes between 40 and 50 competitions per year...

 Light Heavyweight Championship
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|Win
|align=center| 14-5
|Malik Merad
|TKO (punches)
|M-1 Challenge XXV: Zavurov vs. Enomoto
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|align=center|2
|align=center|0:49
|St. Petersburg, Russia
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|Win
|align=center|13-5
|David Tkeshelashvili
|Submission (rear-naked choke)
|M-1 Challenge XXII: Narkun vs. Vasilevsky
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|align=center|1
|align=center|2:26
|Moscow

Moscow

Moscow is the capital, the most populous city, and the most populous federal subject of Russia. The city is a major political, economic, cultural, scientific, religious, financial, educational, and transportation centre of Russia and the continent...

, Russia
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|Win
|align=center|12-5
|Matias Baric
|Submission (rear-naked choke)
|M-1 Challenge XXI: Guram vs. Garner
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|align=center|3
|align=center|3:12
|St. Petersburg, Russia
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|Win
|align=center|11-5
|Toni Valtonen
|Submission (armbar)
|Fight Festival Goes Kaisaniemi
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|align=center|1
|align=center|4:45
|Helsinki

Helsinki

Helsinki is the capital and largest city in Finland. It is in the region of Uusimaa, located in southern Finland, on the shore of the Gulf of Finland, an arm of the Baltic Sea. The population of the city of Helsinki is , making it by far the most populous municipality in Finland. Helsinki is...

, Finland
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|Loss
|align=center|10-5
|Robert Jocz

Robert Jocz

Robert Jocz is a Polish mixed martial artist. He fights in the Middleweight division and has competed for numerous European MMA promotions, like BOTE, M-1, KSW, Ultimate Glory and The Cage. Robert has earned the reputation of a tough fighter, because he has never been finished for the most of his...

|TKO (punches)
|BOTE: Chahbari vs. Souwer
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|align=center|2
|align=center|4:05
|Zutphen, Netherlands
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|Win
|align=center|10-4
|Lee Sang-Soo
|Decision (unanimous)
|M-1 Challenge 20: 2009 Finals
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|align=center|3
|align=center|5:00
|St. Petersburg, Russia
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|Loss
|align=center|9-4
|Lucio Linhares

Lucio Linhares

Lucio Linhares is a Brazilian-Finnish professional mixed martial artist and M-1 Global veteran who has fought for Shooto. Linhares most notable win is over former Ultimate Fighting Championship fighter Sean Salmon. Linhares is a former member of the M-1 Mixfight Team Finland...

|Submission (rear-naked choke)
|M-1 Global Presents Breakthrough

M-1 Global Presents Breakthrough

M-1 Global Presents Breakthrough was a mixed martial arts event promoted by M-1 Global on August 28, 2009 in Kansas City, Kansas. The event aired live on HDNet. The main event featured Muhammed "King Mo" Lawal taking on Mark Kerr. The card also featured an exhibition match between Fedor...

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|align=center|1
|align=center|1:00
|Kansas City, Kansas

Kansas City, Kansas

Kansas City is the third-largest city in the state of Kansas and is the county seat of Wyandotte County. It is a suburb of Kansas City, Missouri, and is the third largest city in the Kansas City Metropolitan Area. The city is part of a consolidated city-county government known as the "Unified...

, United States
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|Loss
|align=center|9-3
|Alexandre Machado
|Decision (unanimous)
|M-1 Challenge 15: Brazil
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|align=center|3
|align=center|5:00
|São Paulo

São Paulo

São Paulo is the largest city in Brazil, the largest city in the southern hemisphere and South America, and the world's seventh largest city by population. The metropolis is anchor to the São Paulo metropolitan area, ranked as the second-most populous metropolitan area in the Americas and among...

, Brazil
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|Loss
|align=center|9-2
|Jae Young Kim
|TKO (head kick)
|M-1 Challenge 12: USA
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|align=center|2
|align=center|4:02
|Tacoma, Washington

Tacoma, Washington

Tacoma is a mid-sized urban port city and the county seat of Pierce County, Washington, United States. The city is on Washington's Puget Sound, southwest of Seattle, northeast of the state capital, Olympia, and northwest of Mount Rainier National Park. The population was 198,397, according to...

, United States
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|Win
|align=center|9-1
|David Haagsma
|Submission (armbar)
|M-1 Challenge 11: 2008 Challenge Finals
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|align=center|1
|align=center|3:25
|Amstelveen

Amstelveen

' is a suburban municipality in the Netherlands, in the province of North Holland. It is part of the metropolitan area of Amsterdam. The municipality of Amstelveen consists of the following villages and/or districts: Amstelveen, Bovenkerk, Westwijk, Bankras-Kostverloren, Groenelaan, Waardhuizen,...

, Netherlands
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|Win
|align=center|8-1
|Seung Bae Whi
|Decision (majority)
|M-1 Challenge 9: Russia
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|align=center|2
|align=center|5:00
|St. Petersburg, Russia
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|Win
|align=center|7-1
|Alexei Kalistartov
|Submission
|RMAU: Battle of the Champions 3
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|align=center|N/A
|align=center|N/A
|Moscow

Moscow

Moscow is the capital, the most populous city, and the most populous federal subject of Russia. The city is a major political, economic, cultural, scientific, religious, financial, educational, and transportation centre of Russia and the continent...

, Russia
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|Win
|align=center|6-1
|John Cornett
|Submission (hand injury)
|M-1 Challenge 7: UK
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|align=center|2
|align=center|0:44
|Nottingham

Nottingham

Nottingham is a city and unitary authority in the East Midlands of England. It is located in the ceremonial county of Nottinghamshire and represents one of eight members of the English Core Cities Group...

, England
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|Win
|align=center|5-1
|Lucio Linhares

Lucio Linhares

Lucio Linhares is a Brazilian-Finnish professional mixed martial artist and M-1 Global veteran who has fought for Shooto. Linhares most notable win is over former Ultimate Fighting Championship fighter Sean Salmon. Linhares is a former member of the M-1 Mixfight Team Finland...

|Decision (unanimous)
|M-1 Challenge 4: Battle on the Neva 2
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|align=center|2
|align=center|5:00
|St. Petersburg, Russia
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|Loss
|align=center|4-1
|Daniel Tabera

Daniel Tabera

Daniel Tabera is a Spanish mixed martial artist who competes in the light heavyweight division. A professional MMA competitor since 2002, Tabera has competed all over Europe - and sporadically in North America - in the likes of M-1 Global, Bellator Fighting Championships and KSW.-Early...

|Submission (rear naked choke)
|M-1 MFC: Fedor Emelianenko Cup
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|align=center|N/A
|align=center|N/A
|Belgorod

Belgorod

-Twin towns/sister cities:Belgorod is twinned with: Wakefield, England, United Kingdom Herne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany Palembang, South Sumatra, Indonesia Opole, Poland Vyshhorod, Ukraine Kharkiv, Ukraine-External links:...

, Russia
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|Win
|align=center|4-0
|Christophe Daffreville
|Decision (unanimous)
|M-1: Slamm
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|align=center|2
|align=center|5:00
|Almere

Almere

Almere is a planned city and municipality in the province of Flevoland, the Netherlands, bordering Lelystad and Zeewolde. The municipality of Almere comprises the districts Almere Stad, Almere Haven, Almere Buiten, Almere Hout, Almere Poort and Almere Pampus .Almere is the youngest city in the...

, Netherlands
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|Win
|align=center|3-0
|Łukasz Jurkowski
|Submission (choke)
|M-1 MFC: Battle on the Neva
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|align=center|3
|align=center|N/A
|St. Petersburg, Russia
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|Win
|align=center|2-0
|Jin O Kim
|Submission (armbar)
|M-1 MFC: Russia vs. Korea
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|align=center|1
|align=center|2:00
|Seoul

Seoul

Seoul , officially the Seoul Special City, is the capital and largest metropolis of South Korea. A megacity with a population of over 10 million, it is the largest city proper in the OECD developed world...

, South Korea
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|Win
|align=center|1-0
|Christophe Durant
|Decision (unanimous)
|M-1 MFC: Mix-Fight
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|align=center|3
|align=center|5:00
|Belgorod

Belgorod

-Twin towns/sister cities:Belgorod is twinned with: Wakefield, England, United Kingdom Herne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany Palembang, South Sumatra, Indonesia Opole, Poland Vyshhorod, Ukraine Kharkiv, Ukraine-External links:...

, Russia
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External links

• http://www.mixfight.ru/fighters/Mihail_Zayats/

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