Russian Red Devils vs. Brazil's Naja Extreme at Next M-1 Challenge

Next Saturday, a little more than a week after their attention-grabbing excursion to Japan, M-1 Global and Affliction hold their fourth M-1 Challenge event of 2009. This time, the squads will duke it out in São Paulo, Brazil, with the hometown Team Naja Extreme (named for their Brazilian fight gear company owners and trained by Black House co-founder Carlos Barreto) going toe-to-toe with Russia's Red Devil Sport Club in the night's main attractions. Filling out the decidedly Euro-flavored show are five matchups each between Bulgaria-Benelux (Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg) and Germany-Russian Legion. Here's the full fight card, as well as team standings from this year's Challenges, updated by M-1 after this week's show.

M-1 Challenge Brazil
May 9th, 2009
Ginásio Esporte Clube Sírio
São Paulo, Brazil

Team Naja Extreme (Brazil) vs. Team Red Devil (Russia)
70kg: Hacran Dias (10-0-1) vs. Mikhail Malyutin (10-7)
77kg: Eduardo Pamplona (10-2) vs. Erik Oganov (9-9)
85kg: Leandro "Batata" Silva (13-5) vs. Dmitry Samoilov (7-3-1)
93kg: Alexandre "Bebezão" Machado vs. Mikhail Zayats (8-2)
93+kg: Joaquim "Mamute" Ferreira (7-2) vs. Alexey Oleinik (24-4)

Team Bulgaria vs. Team Benelux
70kg: Yanko Yanev (6-1) vs. Danny Van Berger
77kg: Ivan Ivanov (4-1) vs. Jason Jones (8-6)
85kg: Jordan Radev (18-4) vs. Raymond Jarman (9-8)
93kg: Atanas Dzhambazov (0-1) vs. Jochim Rijmen (1-1)
93+kg: Veslin Bojinov vs. Sander Duyvis (2-2)

Team Russian Legion vs. Team Germany
70kg: Yuri Ilves vs. Franco "Ortega" de Leonardis (11-3)
77kg: Magomed Shihshabekov vs. Daniel Weichel (16-6)
85kg: Serdey Korney vs. Gregor Herb (4-1)
93kg: Gadzimurad Omarov vs. Martin Zawada (21-9)
93+kg: Akhmed Sultanov (3-3) vs. Dawid Baziak (4-0)

As always, the show will be streaming live on M-1 Global's site - unless you're in the US.

M-1 Challenge Standings as of April 29, 2009

Team - Overall Won-Loss - Head-to-Head Won-Loss

GROUP A
1. England: 1-0/4-1
2. Spain: 1-0/3-2
3. France: 0-1/2-3
4. Japan: 0-1/1-4

GROUP B
1. USA West: 2-0/8-2
2. South Korea: 1-1/3-7
3. (tie) - Team Brazil Naja: 0-1/2-3
3. (tie) - Imperial of Russia: 0-1/2/3

GROUP C
1. USA East: 1-0/5-0
2. Finland: 1-0/4-1
3. Benelux: 0-1/1-4
4. Bulgaria: 0-1/0-5

GROUP D
1. Germany: 1-0/5-0
2. Russia Legion: 1-0/4-1
3. World Team: 0-1/1-4
4. Turkey: 0-1/0-5