The German fighter Stefan Pütz, nicknamed T-800, was a real discovery in the M-1 Challenge. Huge, athletic, technical and incredibly charismatic. He had all the qualities for a real champion, which he immediately became, having won in a dramatic battle against Viktor Nemkov. After that, he won a number of victories, including defeating the current heavyweight champion of the organization, Marcin Tybura. Then there was a rematch with Viktor Nemkov and Fedor's student managed to regain the belt by a separate decision of the judges. And on May 27, 2016, at the M-1 Challenge 66 tournament in Orenburg, Stefan began his new campaign for the champion belt. And I must admit that there weren’t really those who wanted to fight him at that time. Rashid Yusupov and Viktor Nemkov fought each other at the same tournament, but all the other fighters, for various reasons, considered it necessary to evade the meeting with the Terminator.
Except one. Andrey Seledtsov, a fighter from Ukhta, representing the MMA-North teams from the Republic of Komi and Sich Pro, volunteered to fight Pütz. Being not so long ago a fighter of the reconnaissance company of the special purpose "Berkut", Andrey, after demobilization, focused on various types of martial arts and became the champion of the Komi Republic in boxing, combat sambo and mixed martial arts. In the professional arena, he had 6 fights, in 5 of which he celebrated success and won the title of champion of the White Rex organization. For Seledtsov, the fight against the ex-champion of the M-1 Challenge was at that time the biggest challenge in his professional career. But the fighter himself and his team accepted this fight with great enthusiasm and intended to take full advantage of the given chance to make themselves known on the world stage of mixed martial arts.