Battlefield Fighting Championships 1: Ray vs. Svirid - March 18 (OFFICIAL DISCUSSION)

Battlefield FC 1
March 18, 2017
Seoul Olympic Hall 
Seoul, South Korea

Main Card:
Joe Ray (13-5)                  vs.                  (10-4) Igor Svirid   
Main Event | Middleweight | 185 lbs (84 kg)

Sarah Kaufman (18-6)       vs.           (6-3) Jessy Rose-Clark      
Co-Main Event | Women's Bantamweight | 135 lbs (61 kg)

Jorge Patino (38-19)          vs.               (6-3) Yousef Wehbe   
Main Card | Lightweight | 155 lbs (70 kg)

Francisco Trevino (13-3)     vs.   (14-13) Gokhan Turkyilmaz 
Main Card | Welterweight | 170 lbs (77 kg)

Raja Shippen (17-11)          vs.            (4-2) Jung Hyun Ahn   
Main Card | Catchweight | 140 lbs (63.5 kg)

Rocky Lee (3-2)                  vs.               (1-0) Dong Joo Lee 
Main Card | Lightweight | 155 lbs (70 kg)

Newly-formed South Korean promotion Battlefield Fighting Championship will have its inaugural event in Seoul at Olympic Hall on 18 March. The promotion has announced that a welterweight tilt between Strikeforce veteran Joe Ray and former ONE Championship middleweight champion Igor “Lionheart” Svirid is set for the main event.

Joe Ray (13-5) is coming off an unanimous decision loss to middleweight Vladimir Katyhin at M-1 Challenge 64 in early 2016. The Tiger Muay Thai representative has fought all over the globe but most notably for the Strikeforce organization. The American is 8-2 in his last ten fights and has never been submitted or knocked out in his career.

Igor Svirid (10-4) put himself on the map by tearing through the competition back in 2014 during ACB’s Middleweight Grand Prix and winning it all in a span of three months. Then in the same year, ONE decided to bring him in to take on Leandro Ataides for the vacant middleweight title at ONE FC 22. “Lionheart” didn’t even break a sweat demolishing him in 17 seconds of the first frame. However, he lost the title to Vitaly Bigdash via knocked out at ONE Championship: Tigers of Asia in Malaysia in his first defense. He subsequently lost to Luis Santos and Yasubey Enomoto that put him at three setbacks in a row.

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