
MOSCOW, Mar 5 Russian mixed martial artist (MMA) Alexander Shlemenko from — due to an injury, he withdrew from the fight against the Eagle Fighting Championship (Eagle FC) middleweight champion Faridun Odilov from Tajikistan, according to the promotion page on Instagram. The fight between Shlemenko and Odilov was supposed to take place on April 1 in Sochi as part of the Eagle FC 47 tournament. To our regret, Shtorm (Shlemenko) does not have time to recover from the injury. Faridun Odilov will be matched with a new opponent,” the statement says. The Russian is a former Bellator middleweight champion. Eagle FC is a promotion owned by former UFC lightweight champion Khabib Nurmagomedov.

