Let's remind that on November 15 the quadruple world champion in sambo, winner Gran-pri of Bellator Vitaly Minakov a technical knockout won a title duel for the first time against Russian Alexander Volkov protecting the belt.

From first minutes Minakov went forward, attacking big forces. Volkov tried to work from a distant distance. But the duel didn't last even to the second round, and was planned whole five. Minakov knocked out the champion, thereby having selected at it a Bellator belt.

- There were many emotions because it there was a desired victory and a desired belt, - Vitaly Minakov told after fight. - We realized problems of one-and-a-half-year prescription. Before signing of the contract with Bellator we with the FIGHT NIGHTS team made far-reaching plans. Thank God that everything that planned, we realized. It is success of all our team and those people who give us support. All of us move in the correct direction. I had such tactics on fight, because Alexander very skilled and thinking fighter. With it to work at a distance and there was to fence no sense because the majority of duels which he won, passed on a distance convenient for it, - Vitaly Minakov tells. - It was necessary to press constantly on it, to deprive of it maneuverability, not to allow it to move and choose a distance. I drew in its all the time, and at me everything turned out.

The champion belt Vitaly Minakov will store houses, in Bryansk.

Vitaly Minakov won on a professional ring the 13th victory in succession. Now it will protect the title in a duel with the winner of the last Grand Prix of heavyweights of Bellator Chick Kongo. Date of title fight between Minakov and Congo will be declared later.

It should be noted that after a victory Vitaly Minakov borrowed the 12th place in the general world rating among all organizations according to the Fight Matrix version, having bypassed such fighters as to Shtruva, Gonzaga, Nelson and Nogeyra and having almost caught up with Barnet, Overim, Hunt and the World. It is interesting that Minakov's all next neighbors in a rating act in UFC.