Sweden’s heavyweight talent takes on the beast from Finland in the first Sweden vs. Finland MMA Country Clash

(PRESS RELEASE) -- The Swedish heavyweight talent Yosef Ali Mohammad takes on the Finn Marko Patteri in the first Sweden vs. Finland MMA Country Clash at Superior Challenge 9 on November 23rd at Scandinavium in Gothenburg.

Yosef and his coach David Glasnovic have just arrived home from a few weeks of training camp in Miami. The young talent is booked to fight at Strength and Honor Championship in Switzerland on September 21st. Immediately after he will start with the training for Superior Challenge 9 on November 23 in Gothenburg's largest indoor arena, Scandinavium.

His opponent will be Finland’s strongman Marko Patteri. He began his athletic career with Athletics and then went on to compete in Strongman competitions, and six years later he began with powerlifting. The transition to martial arts was very hard but still felt natural because it had always fascinated him. After practicing Wrestling, Kickboxing, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, Thai boxing he finally was captivated by the complexity of MMA. After five professional MMA bouts, the enormous Finn will soon come to Sweden to face the Swedish heavyweight Yosef in the first bout of Sweden vs. Finland MMA Country Clash.

Sweden vs. Finland MMA Country Clash is a concept created by Sweden’s Superior Challenge and Finland’s Cage. It is a new ultimate version of the traditional country clash between the countries, which is deeply rooted in both countries' traditions. As usual, the aim is to prove which country is the best, but instead of running fast or jumping high the participants challenges each other in a cage. Both promotions will have a certain number of bouts at a specific event once a year, and the country with the most wins will be victorious.

Babak Aghavali, CEO Superior Group International: - Yosef and his coach David from A.V.A.M. never turns down a fight, and the tougher the opponent, the better they feel, which is a very good attitude. But tough is the least one can say about his opponent. Marko is a huge, fierce, super strong all-around fighter. This will be the heaviest bout on the Superior Challenge 9 card and the first Sweden vs. Finland MMA Country Clash. I'm really looking forward to watch our young 110 kg talent take on 110 kg ferocious Finnish Sisu. It’s always something special with heavyweight bouts and particularly if the fighters have the attributes of these two giants.

Experience top quality adrenaline-full sports entertainment when Europe's greatest MMA promotion, Superior Challenge visits Gothenburg, the Scandinavian capital of martial arts, with its 9th edition on November 23rd at Scandinavium. Purchase your tickets at Ticnet.se: http://www.ticnet.se/search.php?tm_link=tm_header_search&language=sv-se&keyword=superior+challenge

Superior Challenge: Superior Challenge is one of the world's largest MMA promotions, which produces high quality, and adrenalin-full sports entertainment for the MMA audience around the world. The organization has many years of experience in MMA and broad knowledge of the industry, and is internationally recognized as one of the world's premier MMA shows. Superior Challenge is among five MMA promotions in the world with top 20 internationally ranked fighters competing at the events. The first event in 2008, broke the record attendance for all MMA events in Scandinavia and since then a total of eight events have been produced, and the record have been broken three times, and the last time was at Superior Challenge 8 on October 6th in a packed Malmö Arena in Sweden. That event is estimated to have had a PR value equivalent to 17 million SEK gross, in Sweden alone. The Live TV broadcast of the show also broke the all time record rating for all Nordic martial arts TV programs. In addition to nationwide TV broadcasts in Sweden, Superior Challenge shows are broadcasted in most parts of the world. Superior Challenge is part of Superior Group International along with Superior Wear, Superior Gear, Superior Productions, and Superior Management. Thus, the organization is one of the world's biggest MMA groups, with operations starting in 2005. Since then the company has invested incredible resources in the Swedish MMA market, which has resulted in the current Swedish MMA market. The organization is also the largest Nordic exporter of MMA athletes, and consequently puts great importance on creating Swedish heroes and MMA athletes.

Some athletes who have competed at the events: Alexander Gustafsson, Joachim Hansen, Thales Leites, Jeremy Horn, Marcus Davis, Rich Clementi, Junie Browning, Daniel Acacio, Reza Madadi, Tor Troéng, Papy Abedi, Hamid Corassani, Magnus Cedenblad, Sami Aziz, David Bielkheden, Carlo Prater, James McSweeney etc.

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